Joshua H. Howard 
Workers at War [EPUB ebook] 
Labor in China’s Arsenals, 1937-1953

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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.

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Joshua H. Howard is the Croft Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Mississippi.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 480 ● ISBN 9781503624481 ● File size 26.9 MB ● Publisher Stanford University Press ● Published 2004 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 9060964 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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