Enabling power: Merchant shipping act, 1970, s.71. Issued: 25.7.77. Made: 15.7.77. Laid: 25.7.77. Coming into force: 15.8.77. Effect: S.I. 1972/1295, amended.

This book, first published in 1980, covers the employment of merchant seamen, principally from the perspective of a labour lawyer, but including a great deal of material not normally found in books on labour law. It also shows how the law is but one kind of rule; that the collective organisations of works and employers create and enforce rules of industrial practice that have just as important an effect on the lives of those they cover.