 From the Captain’s Tiger to the Chief Steward. Career Patterns of the Catering Personnel on British Passenger Liners, 1860–1938Sari Mäenpää ()
Chapter Chapter 10 in The Transformation of Maritime Professions, 2023, pp 221-243 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract This essay offers an insight into career patterns of the catering personnel on British passenger liners in 1860–1938. It demonstrates the enormous increase in the numbers of catering personnel and provides quantitative data on the changing structure of the UK maritime labour force. It reveals that technological change, particularly in connection with the development of large passenger ships, made catering departments a major component of seagoing labour. The career advancement of catering personnel manifested itself in different ways in comparison to other groups within the maritime labour force. In terms of structure and hierarchy, the distinction between ratings and officers was further complicated by the internal division of the catering crew within passenger classes. Not only the skills required for the new jobs were different from the old maritime labour force, but the principles of pay differed from the rest of the labour force. Date: 2023 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-27212-7_10 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27212-7_10 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Economic History from Palgrave Macmillan |
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