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From the Captain’s Tiger to the Chief Steward. Career Patterns of the Catering Personnel on British Passenger Liners, 1860–1938

In: The Transformation of Maritime Professions

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  • Sari Mäenpää

    (Maritime Centre Forum Marinum)

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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.

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  • Sari Mäenpää, 2023. "From the Captain’s Tiger to the Chief Steward. Career Patterns of the Catering Personnel on British Passenger Liners, 1860–1938," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Karel Davids & Joost Schokkenbroek (ed.), The Transformation of Maritime Professions, chapter 0, pages 221-243, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-27212-7_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27212-7_10
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