The Many-Headed Hydra.

Linebaugh, Peter; Rediker, Marcus

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“…On board the ship, the influence of the increasing numbers of ex-merchant seaman is important as 'pirate ideology now began to reflect the grievances of the lower deck as well as the ideals of the buccaneers' (Earle 2004: 166). It may well also reflect the socially isolated yet collective and synchronized experience of seafaring labour (Linebaugh andRediker 2000, Rediker 2004: 25). These contexts set the scene for the political economy and organization of piracy during the early 18 th century.…”

Section: Alternative Organizationmentioning

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Pirates, merchants and anarchists: Representations of international business

Parker

2009

Management & Organizational History

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This paper considers the relationship between historical and fictional accounts of piracy, and relates them to contemporary issues about the legitimacy of states and global business. I begin by showing how privateers were gradually distinguished into pirates and navies. At the same time, the pirate becomes a character in the popular imagination, a 'trickster' figure on the side of the people, and against authority. The second main section of the paper moves from 'history' to 'representation' and shows how the image of the pirate moved from a wild character on the edge of the world, to a stock cliché for Hollywood swashbucklers. I then investigate the legacy of radical histories and representations of piracy, focussing particularly on the idea of alternative organization on the ship and the pirate utopias on the land. The final section pulls together the historical figure, the stock character and the radical rogue in order to suggest that the pirate can mean what what we want him (or to her) to mean. Nonetheless, the biggest historical irony is that the golden age pirate emerges at the beginnings of international business, and is only wiped out when the state and the businessman strike an alliance that lasts to the present day.2

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Section: Alternative Organizationmentioning

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Pirates, merchants and anarchists: Representations of international business

Parker

2009

Management & Organizational History

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“…146 The striking parallel in these documents confirms the interconnectedness of the Atlantic world. 147 Accordingly, it was natural that Liberia's 1847 Declaration of Independence followed, practically verbatim, the Atlantic model: "We recognize in all men certain natural and inalienable rights [...] life, liberty [,..]." 148 Yet, although Liberia's Declaration was identical to those of the earlier Atlantic revolutions, the constitution that followed contained a local, peculiar ingredient: it barred whites from citizenship and the acquisition of property in Liberia.…”

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Liberia and the Atlantic World in the Nineteenth Century: Convergence and Effects

Allen

2010

Hist. Afr.

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William C. Burke, an African American emigrant in Liberia, wrote the following to an acquaintance in the United States on 23 September 1861: This must be the severest affliction that have visited the people of the United States and must be a sorce [sic] of great inconvenience and suffering and although we are separated from the seane [sic] by the Atlantic yet we feel sadly the effects of it in this country. The Steavens not coming out as usual was a great disappointment and loss to many in this country.Burke's lamentation about the impact of the American Civil War on the distant Atlantic shores of Africa underscores a problem—and opportunity—in Liberian historiography. Burke's nineteenth-century world extended past the distinct national boundaries that separated the United States and Liberia. Geographically, this was the vast littoral of the four continents—Africa, Europe, North America, and South America—abutting the Atlantic Ocean. But the Atlantic world, as historians now dubbed this sprawling transnational zone, was much more extensive. Societies near and faraway were also drawn into the web of socioeconomic activities in the basin. The creation of the Atlantic world spanned almost four centuries, from the late fifteenth to the waning decades of the nineteenth century. In this period, an unprecedented multitude of migrants crisscrossed the Atlantic creating a vast network. For example, by the nineteenth century, regular transatlantic packages such as the Mary Caroline Stevens whose delay Burke called “a great disappointment,” transported passengers, provisions, and dispatches between the United States and Liberia.

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“…'' 74 C O N C L U S I O N In their luminous beacon of contemporary working-class studies, Linebaugh and Rediker remark critically on the way historians take for granted basic phenomena, such as fields, cities, ports, plantations, and ''the commodities of commerce'', as though these things are just given in history rather than wrought out of a dramatic process of expropriation and exploitation. 75 Labour commodification occupies a similar historiographical position, as an assumed part of the background. Yet, as this study of the boilermaking trades has illustrated, labour commodification was a dynamic and continuous point of conflict between employers and workers.…”

Section: E M P L O Y E R S a N D T H E T E C H N I Q U E O F C O M M mentioning

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Labour Commodification and Classification: An Illustrative Case Study of the New South Wales Boilermaking Trades, 1860–1920

Maddison¹

2008

Int Rev of Soc His

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Labour commodification is a core process in building capitalist society. Nonetheless, it is given remarkably little attention in labour and social historiography, because assumptions about the process have obscured its historical character. Abandoning these assumptions, a close study of labour commodification in the boilermaking trades of late colonial New South Wales (Australia) illustrates the historical character of the process. In these trades, labour commodification was deeply contested at the most intimate level of class relations between workers and employers. This contest principally took the form of a struggle over the scheme of occupational classification used as the basis of pay rates. It was a highly protracted struggle, because workers developed strategies that kept the employers' efforts at bay for four decades. Employer efforts to intensify the commodity character of boilermakers' labour were largely ineffective, until they were given great assistance in the early twentieth century by the state arbitration system.

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The Many-Headed Hydra.

Cited by 53 publications

References 13 publications

Pirates, merchants and anarchists: Representations of international business

Pirates, merchants and anarchists: Representations of international business

Liberia and the Atlantic World in the Nineteenth Century: Convergence and Effects

Labour Commodification and Classification: An Illustrative Case Study of the New South Wales Boilermaking Trades, 1860–1920

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