Sailor Registration and Seaman’s Registration Books in Barcelona’s maritime labor market, 1850-1920

Authors

  • Jordi Ibarz Gelabert Universitat de Barcelona
  • Enric García-Domingo Museu Marítim de Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53351/a10bnb92

Keywords:

Inscripción marítima, Matrícula del mar, Mercado de trabajo marítimo, Reclutamiento

Abstract

The recruitment systems that provided the Spanish Navy with crew during the 19th and 20th centuries relied heavily on two institutions, firstly the Sailor Registration and then the Seaman’s Registration books, which established the rights and duties of sea personnel. There exists an indisputably important historiographical deficit in the study of Sailor Registration during the 19th century and an almost complete lack of works on Seaman’s Registration Books in the 19th and 20th centuries. This text is situated within the wider field of study of the construction and development of maritime labor markets, in this case focused on Spain's and, more specifically, Barcelona's contex. The main aim of this work is thus to determine to what extent the legislation on both sea personnel recruitment systems, as well as on their practical application, constituted an obstacle to the development of Barcelona's maritime labor market. For this purpose, an analysis of the existing legislation on the subject was carried out. Next, and working from the perspective of Social History, statistical information collected or constructed on the number of people registered and their socio-demographic characteristics was used to analyze how these recruitment regulations were implemented in practice. The main sources used were the existing digital collections on the regulations issued by the Ministry of the Navy, the Official Gazettes of the Province of Barcelona ― which published the names of the young men whose military service in the Navy was still pending ― and also the few records available on the Sailor Registration and the Seaman’s Registration books kept in the Cartagena Naval Archive.

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Author Biographies

  • Jordi Ibarz Gelabert, Universitat de Barcelona

    Doctor en historia desde el 2001. Ha sido autor de diversos estudios y publicaciones sobre los estibadores del puerto de Barcelona y más recientemente sobre el trabajo en la industria del vidrio. Ha publicado sobre estos temas en diversas revistas especializadas, tanto de ámbito nacional como internacional. Es miembro del consejo de redacción de Ebre 38. Revista Internacional de la Guerra Civil, 1936-1939.

  • Enric García-Domingo, Museu Marítim de Barcelona

     

    Doctor en Historia Contemporánea por la Universitat de Barcelona, con una tesis sobre el trabajo en la marina mercante española en la transición de la vela al vapor. Investigador en el campo de la Historia Marítima, especialmente de los siglos XIX-XX, Miembro activo del grupo de investigación Trabajo, Instituciones y Género (TIG) de la Universitat de Barcelona. Actualmente es director general del Consorci de les Drassanes Reials i Museu Marítim de Barcelona.Entre otros trabajos es autor de “El mundo del trabajo en la marina mercante española (1834-1914)”, 2017, o de “'La hermana mayor: las difíciles relaciones entre la marina mercante española y la Armada (1802-1932)”, 2017.

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Published

2024-07-23

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Vol. 13 No. 26 (2024): Servicio Militar: memoria, movilización y nación

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How to Cite

Sailor Registration and Seaman’s Registration Books in Barcelona’s maritime labor market, 1850-1920. (2024). Revista Universitaria De Historia Militar, 13(26), 87-112. https://doi.org/10.53351/a10bnb92

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