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"Maritime labor" as a book category covers the work, lives, institutions and politics of people who earn their living on or around the sea—sailors, merchant mariners, fishermen, shipbuilders, dockworkers, stevedores, harbor pilots and related laborers. It includes historical and contemporary studies of working conditions, labor movements and unions, laws and regulations, economic forces and global trade, migration and community life in port towns, technological change and its effects on jobs, safety and health at sea, and personal narratives or biographies that illuminate the everyday realities of maritime work. The category spans academic histories, investigative journalism, oral histories, policy analyses and narrative nonfiction (and occasionally fiction grounded in working-class maritime experience), appealing to readers interested in labor history, maritime studies, social history and the human dimensions of global shipping and fisheries.

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