Author: Maril, Robert Lee
Title: Texas Shrimpers: Community, Capitalism, and the Sea
Description: College Station [Texas], Texas A. & M. University, (1983). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xix,222 pp. Textual photo illistrations.. Minor rubbing. Slight binding corner bump. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: At Sea: Big Men in Little Boats: The Sea; The Work: Header & Rigger; Captain & Captain-Owner; Demographic Characteristics & Attitudes Toward Work; Landfall: When Shimpers Come Home: When The Frenchmen Came: A Social History of the Shrimpers in Texas Ports; At the Dock: Drinking & Deviance; In the Marketplace: Shrimpers, Big Business, Big Government, & Unions: Economic Risks; The Structure of the Shrimping Industry: The Big Squeeze on the Owners; Big Government; Unions, Shrimpers, & the Shrimping Industry; Concluding Remarks.

Keywords: Economic Sociology, Texas United States, Shrimp Industry, Fishermen, Shrimpers, Anthropology, Fishing Economy, Economics, Industrial