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Scrap & Build
by Burrell, D. C. E
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- In exceptionally good condition
- Seller
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San Diego, California, United States
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About This Item
Kendal, Cambria, UK: World Ship Society, 1983. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [20.5cm/8.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 79, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &ct. Includes British Shipping Tables, Scrap & Build Fleet Lists, Shipping Loan Fleets Lists, The British Shipping (Assistance) Act, 1935 &1939. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The British Shipping (Assistance) Act of 1935 aimed to subsidize the British shipping industry in the context of the economic depression of the 1930s. While one of its purposes was to safeguard seamens jobs, it did so only for white British seamen, thus discriminating on the grounds of race. One of the requirements for payment of the subsidy was that the ship employed only British seamen. Thus, in the wake of the Act, many ship-owners sacked all but their white employees, and numerous Indian lascars found themselves suddenly without employment.This discriminatory Act was met with considerable resistance. The Colonial Seamens Association, which brought South Asian seamen together with their black, Arab and Chinese counterparts, was formed in reaction to the Act, in order to better mobilize against it. They held numerous meetings in which the Act was denounced. In May 1935, Shapurji Saklatvala gave a speech decrying the Act at the Coloured National Mutual Social Club in South Shields. Opposition to the Act was also voiced in India where there were even threats of retaliation against white workers there. With protest against the Act coming from the India Office and Colonial Office as well as the CSA and other organizations, the discrimination was removed in March 1936.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Lewis Best Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27922
- Title
- Scrap & Build
- Author
- Burrell, D. C. E
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - In exceptionally good condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- World Ship Society
- Place of Publication
- Kendal, Cambria, UK
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Maritime Shipbuilding Business England
Terms of Sale
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Charles Lewis Best Booksellers
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...