Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century graphic design From Saraceno’s introduction:

From Saraceno’s introduction:

deconstructing the underlying factors hidden by bureaucracy using unofficial picture archives

Zine with illustrations by Chiamin Liu

Alessandro Petti

Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century graphic design From Saraceno’s introduction:A TRAGIC SHIPPING ACCIDENT OPENS A WINDOW ON RACIALIZED LABOUR MANAGEMENT IN AN AGE OF IMPERIALISM When eighty seven passengers and crew died in the shipwreck of the Royal Mail ship Egypt in 1922, the accident gave rise to a racist international press campaign against the employment of Indian seafarers, such as those who made up most of the ships crew. This was not unusual at a time when a fifth of the British mercantile marines workforce was