Ethnic Labour and British Imperial Trade

Diane Frost (University of Liverpool)

• The Black Poor of London : Initiatives of Eastern Seamen in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Racism, Work and Unemployment: West African Seamen in Liverpool 1880s-1960s, The Role of Seamen's Agents in the Migration for Employment of Arab Seafarers in the Early Twentieth Century, Across the Universe : Racial Violence and the Post-War Crisis in Imperial Britain, 1919-25, Class, Race and Nation: The Politics of the ‘Arab Issue’ in South Shields 1919-39, The Political Imperatives of Bureaucracy and Empire: The Case of the Coloured Alien Seamen Order, 1925, Strikes! African Seamen, Elder Dempster and the Government, 1940-42

International Journal of Maritime History- "a significant contribution to out understanding of some of the non-Europeans who were increasingly significant in manning British ships from the mid-nineteenth century."The Northern Mariner- " The collection makes an interesting beginning to the study of ethnicity and the British merchant mariner"African Affairs- " this book...should prove highly stimulating, especially through the useful notes at the end of each chapter. When, ultimately, a comprehensive history of ethnic seafarers in British Imperial trade is written, this small book should occupy an hnourable place in its historiography