War And The Workers
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Author | : E. M. Delafield |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Joshua H. Howard |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804748964 |
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.
Author | : Sir Norman Angell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Peace |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Guoqi Xu |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2011-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674060555 |
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.
Author | : John West (Workers party of the U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Politics and war |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julia Bryan-Wilson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520269756 |
From artists to art workers -- Carl Andre's work ethic -- Robert Morris's art strike -- Lucy Lippard's feminist labor -- Hans Haacke's paperwork.
Author | : Gail Braybon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415042017 |
Author | : Frank Julian Warne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Industrial relations |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Matthew E. Stanley |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0252052641 |
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.
Author | : Maurine Weiner Greenwald |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801497339 |