Recruitment for Spacefleet

I am taking this almost quote from the book <em>Gray Raiders of the Sea</em> by Chester G Hearn (Louisiana State University Press 1992)<br /><br />Confederate Agent Bulloch arranged with a British agent to recruit sailors for the built in Britain in somewhat secret <em>CSS Alabama </em>(cruiser/commerce raider)<em>. </em>When he arrived at the dock with the tug to take the recruited sailors to the <em>CSS Alabama</em>, he was shocked to see as many women as men on the dock. The sailor's ladies would not leave their men's sides until they had been paid the sailors' first months wages. <br /><br />The common practise in those days was for a recruitment agents to have &quot;ladies&quot; find unemployed sailors and encourage them to find work. They would then take the sailors' first months wages, wave goodbye and go find their next sailor for the recruitment agent.<br /><br />Two things<br />1)How would you work this into the SF universe<br />2)Remember this when people say how much better things were in the old days