This paper is about Seafaring Lives in Transition, Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping, 1850s–1920s (SeaLiT), an international research project funded by the ERC Starting Grant 2016. SeaLiT started in February 2017 and has a duration of five years. The project explores the transition from sail to steam navigation and its effects on seafaring populations in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea between the 1850s and the 1920s. In the core of the project lie the effects of technological innovation on seafaring people and maritime communities, whose lives were drastically altered by the advent of steam. The project addresses the changes through the actors, seafarers, shipowners and their families, focusing on the adjustment of seafaring lives to a novel socio-economic reality. It investigates the maritime labour market, the evolving relations among shipowner, captain, crew and their local societies, life on board and ashore, as well as the development of new business strategies, trade routes and navigation patterns. The project offers a comparative perspective, investigating both collectivities and individuals, on board the ships and on shore in a number of big and small ports from Barcelona up to Odessa, in the Black Sea.

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航海生活在地中海航海历史的十字路口

这篇论文是关于 Seafaring Lives in Transition，Mediterranean Maritime Labor and Shipping, 1850s–1920s (SeaLiT)，一个由 ERC 2016 年启动资助资助的国际研究项目。 SeaLiT 于 2017 年 2 月开始，为期五年。该项目探索了从航海到蒸汽航海的转变及其对 1850 年代和 1920 年代之间地中海和黑海航海人口的影响。该项目的核心在于技术创新对航海人员和海事社区的影响，蒸汽的出现极大地改变了他们的生活。该项目通过参与者、海员、船东及其家人应对这些变化，重点是将航海生活调整为新的社会经济现实。它调查海事劳动力市场，船东、船长、船员与其当地社会、船上和岸上生活之间不断变化的关系，以及新商业战略、贸易路线和航行模式的发展。该项目提供了一个比较的视角，调查了从巴塞罗那到黑海敖德萨的许多大小港口的船上和岸上的集体和个人。