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Workers at War

Author : Joshua H. Howard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804748964
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Workers at War written by Joshua H. Howard and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the lives, struggles, and contrasting perspectives of the 60,000 workers, military administrators, and technical staff employed in the largest, most strategic industry of the Nationalist government, the armaments industry based in the wartime capital, Chongqing. The author argues that China's arsenal workers participated in three interlocked conflicts between 1937 and 1953: a war of national liberation, a civil war, and a class war. The work adds to the scholarship on the Chinese revolution, which has previously focused primarily on rural China, showing how workers alienation from the military officers directing the arsenals eroded the legitimacy of the Nationalist regime and how the Communists mobilized working-class support in Chongqing. Moreover, in emphasizing the urban, working-class, and nationalist components of the 1949 revolution, the author demonstrates the multiple sources of workers identities and thus challenges previous studies that have exclusively stressed workers particularistic or regional identities.

The War-Workers

Author : E. M. Delafield
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The War-Workers written by E. M. Delafield and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is set in England during World War I and revolves around Miss Vivian, a 29-year-old woman. In this novel, Miss Vivian is the Director of the Midland Supply Depôt. She lives with her parents at their rural estate 'Plessings'. It is to be admired that Vivian, who has never done a day's work in her life, has a tenacious spirit that propels her in organizing, supervising and directing the Midlands Supply Depot with great efficiency. Meanwhile across the street the 'war girls' live in a very overcrowded hostel, here they share rooms with hardly any hot water and pretty much unpalatable food.

Labor’s Great War

Author : Joseph A. McCartin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146961703X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Labor’s Great War written by Joseph A. McCartin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in the workplace. In his comprehensive look at labor issues during the decade of the Great War, McCartin explores the political, economic, and social forces that gave rise to this conflict and shows how rising labor militancy and the sudden erosion of managerial control in wartime workplaces combined to create an industrial crisis. The search for a resolution to this crisis led to the formation of an influential coalition of labor Democrats, AFL unionists, and Progressive activists on the eve of U.S. entry into the war. Though the coalition's efforts in pursuit of industrial democracy were eventually frustrated by powerful forces in business and government and by internal rifts within the movement itself, McCartin shows how the shared quest helped cement the ties between unionists and the Democratic Party that would subsequently shape much New Deal legislation and would continue to influence the course of American political and labor history to the present day.

Strangers on the Western Front

Author : Guoqi Xu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674060555
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Strangers on the Western Front written by Guoqi Xu and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied war effort. These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came voluntarily and worked in Europe longer than any other group. Xu explores China’s reasons for sending its citizens to help the British and French (and, later, the Americans), the backgrounds of the workers, their difficult transit to Europe—across the Pacific, through Canada, and over the Atlantic—and their experiences with the Allied armies. It was the first encounter with Westerners for most of these Chinese peasants, and Xu also considers the story from their perspective: how they understood this distant war, the racism and suspicion they faced, and their attempts to hold on to their culture so far from home. In recovering this fascinating lost story, Xu highlights the Chinese contribution to World War I and illuminates the essential role these unsung laborers played in modern China’s search for a new national identity on the global stage.

On Her Their Lives Depend

Author : Angela Woollacott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520085027
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book On Her Their Lives Depend written by Angela Woollacott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-05-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the experience of women munitions workers in Britain during WW1.

Art Workers

Author : Julia Bryan-Wilson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520269756
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Art Workers written by Julia Bryan-Wilson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From artists to art workers -- Carl Andre's work ethic -- Robert Morris's art strike -- Lucy Lippard's feminist labor -- Hans Haacke's paperwork.

Women Workers in the Second World War

Author : Penny Summerfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136247262
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Women Workers in the Second World War written by Penny Summerfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challenges such a picture. The state approached the removal of women from the domestic sphere with extreme caution, in spite of the desperate need for women’s labour in war work. Women’s own preferences were frequently neglected or distorted in the search for a compromise between production and patriarchy. However, the enduring practices of paying women less and treating them as an inferior category of workers led to growth in the numbers and proportions of women employed after the war in many areas of work. Penny Summerfield concludes that the war accelerated the segregation of women in 'inferior' sectors of work, and inflated the expectation that working women would bear the double burden without a redistribution of responsibility for the domestic sphere between men, women and the state. First published in 1984, this is an important book for students of history, sociology and women’s studies at all levels.

Grand Army of Labor

Author : Matthew E. Stanley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052641
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Grand Army of Labor written by Matthew E. Stanley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlisting memory in a new fight for freedom From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery used by Civil War veterans within the sprawling radical politics of the time. As he shows, a rich world of rituals, songs, speeches, and newspapers emerged among the many strains of working class cultural politics within the labor movement. Yet tensions arose even among allies. Some people rooted Civil War commemoration in nationalism and reform, and in time, these conservative currents marginalized radical workers who tied their remembering to revolution, internationalism, and socialism. An original consideration of meaning and memory, Grand Army of Labor reveals the complex ways workers drew on themes of emancipation and equality in the long battle for workers’ rights.

German Workers in Chicago

Author : Chicago Project (Universität München)
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252014581
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book German Workers in Chicago written by Chicago Project (Universität München) and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women, War, and Work

Author : Maurine Weiner Greenwald
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801497339
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Women, War, and Work written by Maurine Weiner Greenwald and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women Workers in the First World War

Author : Gail Braybon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780415042017
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Women Workers in the First World War written by Gail Braybon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1981 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Work's Intimacy

Author : Melissa Gregg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745637469
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Work's Intimacy written by Melissa Gregg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the knew "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family, and wider social tensions emerging in today’s rapidly changing work environment. Drawing on her extensive research, Gregg shows that new media technologies encourage and exacerbate an older tendency among salaried professionals to put work at the heart of daily concerns, often at the expense of other sources of intimacy and fulfillment. New media technologies from mobile phones to laptops and tablet computers, have been marketed as devices that give us the freedom to work where we want, when we want, but little attention has been paid to the consequences of this shift, which has seen work move out of the office and into cafés, trains, living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms. This professional "presence bleed" leads to work concerns impinging on the personal lives of employees in new and unforseen ways. This groundbreaking book explores how aspiring and established professionals each try to cope with the unprecedented intimacy of technologically-mediated work, and how its seductions seem poised to triumph over the few remaining relationships that may stand in its way.

Workers, War & the Origins of Apartheid

Author : Peter Alexander
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780852557655
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Workers, War & the Origins of Apartheid written by Peter Alexander and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a revision of South African labour history and makes a contribution to the debate about apartheid's genesis. Using a range of untapped sources, it shows that there was far more strike action during World War II than was officially acknowledged. North America: Ohio U Press

Women at the Front

Author : Jane E. Schultz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807864153
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Women at the Front written by Jane E. Schultz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.

Mercedes in Peace and War

Author : Bernard P. Bellon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231068574
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Mercedes in Peace and War written by Bernard P. Bellon and published by . This book was released on 1992-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Bellon combines a detailed study of the daily lives of factory workers at Daimler-Benz with a broader discussion of the role of the automobile industry in the economic and political development of Germany from 1903 through the end of World War II.

Rosie's Mom

Author : Carrie Brown
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535353
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Rosie's Mom written by Carrie Brown and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book restores to history the lives of American women involved in war work during World War I.

AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers

Author : Kim Scipes
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739135023
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers written by Kim Scipes and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the themes of imperialism and empire from the perspective of the foreign policy program of organized labor in the United States. It details efforts to make real popular democracy within Labor. The author calls for American workers to join the global movement for economic and social justice and to extend globalization from 'below' against the values and activities of the top-down and destructive military-corporate globalization that has been sweeping the world for years.