Oil Workers Are War Workers
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Oil Workers Are War Workers
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Author : Petroleum Industry War Council (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
Oil Workers Are War Workers written by Petroleum Industry War Council (U.S.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with categories.
No Blood For Oil
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
No Blood For Oil written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991 categories.
The Business Of War
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Author : James A. Tyner
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2006
The Business Of War written by James A. Tyner and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
The Business of War considers the myriad ways in which transnational labour migration intersects with the occupation of Iraq and examines the role of the USA in the Middle East. The book places the war on terror within the practices of neoliberalism, but also links this with migration issues and argues that it is all part of a larger 'business' of conflict.
In The Matter Of War Emergency Pipelines Inc And Oil Workers International Union Cio
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Author : United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
In The Matter Of War Emergency Pipelines Inc And Oil Workers International Union Cio written by United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with categories.
Working For Oil
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Author : Touraj Atabaki
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-21
Working For Oil written by Touraj Atabaki and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-21 with Social Science categories.
This volume examines the social history of oil workers and investigates how labor relations have shaped the global oil industry during the twentieth century and today. It brings together the work of scholars from a range of disciplines, approaching the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of oil. The contributors analyze a number of key oil producing regions, including the Americas, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Europe and Africa.
American Cowboys Secret Oil Wells Saved England In World War 2
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Author : Kenneth Mink
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-21
American Cowboys Secret Oil Wells Saved England In World War 2 written by Kenneth Mink and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with categories.
This book is based on a true story. In the summer of 1943 England was in a bitter war with Germany. But England was running out of oil. The country had a secret small oil field producing about 300 barrels a day, using outdated equipment. But that was far short of their military needs. Germany was constantly bombing England's emergency oil supplies localities and the British faced a critical oil shortage. America tried to help, but German subs and planes kept sinking oil tankers en route to England. Britain's oil commission informed Prime Minister Churchill that unless some solution was found the country faced the probability of having to surrender to Germany in less than a year. The English were desperate, so they sent an envoy to America to solicit help from U. S. oil companies. The companies declined, citing their own oil production needs. But the British envoy, Phillip Southwell, doggedly pursued American help. Finally, two oil companies agreed to combine forces and provide England modern drilling equipment and oil worker expertise. The oil companies recruited 42 oil workers to take on a secret mission to help a desperate Allie. The workers signed on for a one-year contract to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week--with a generous pay scale. The workers and equipment was secretly shipped in a round-about route to England, where they were secretly housed in a large remote Anglican monastery, sharing quarters with dozens of ministerial students. The workers arrival created a stir in the nearby British town, with residents trying to figure out why there were so many men strolling through town wearing five-gallon cowboy hats, jeans and boots. Many surmised the men might be there to film a cowboy movie. During their tenure the cowboy oil workers were involved in many escapades, all friendly, including a British vs. U. S. bicycle derby, an exchange of sports competition (Americans teaching ministerial students how to play softball and ministerial students teaching Americans how to play soccer), a fishing trip on the River Trent which ended with oil workers finding fish they had a hard time handling, playing hooky to visit London (where they survived a German bombing attack), putting on very popular cowboy song nights at the Fox Inn, getting involved in illegally hunting wild game while trying to expand their meager meals, and becoming friends with the leader of the Polish Air Force. One of the workers was killed in a fall from an oil derrick and another fell in love with a local girl in a tender romance.
Workers At War
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Author : Joshua H. Howard
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2004-09-29
Workers At War written by Joshua H. Howard and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-29 with History categories.
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 Good Hand
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Author : Michael Patrick F. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-02-16
The Good Hand written by Michael Patrick F. Smith and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“A book that should be read . . . Smith brings an alchemic talent to describing physical labor.” —The New York Times Book Review “Beautiful, funny, and harrowing.” – Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic “Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been.” —Kirkus Reviews A vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far away as Jamaica, Africa and the Philippines. They ate together, drank together, argued like crows and searched for jobs they couldn't get back home. Smith's goal was to find the hardest work he could do--to find out if he could do it. He hired on in the oil patch where he toiled fourteen hour shifts from summer's 100 degree dog days to deep into winter's bracing whiteouts, all the while wrestling with the demons of a turbulent past, his broken relationships with women, and the haunted memories of a family riven by violence. The Good Hand is a saga of fear, danger, exhaustion, suffering, loneliness, and grit that explores the struggles of America's marginalized boomtown workers—the rough-hewn, castoff, seemingly disposable men who do an indispensable job that few would exalt: oil field hands who, in the age of climate change, put the gas in our tanks and the food in our homes. Smith, who had pursued theater and played guitar in New York, observes this world with a critical eye; yet he comes to love his coworkers, forming close bonds with Huck, a goofy giant of a young man whose lead foot and quick fists get him into trouble with the law, and The Wildebeest, a foul-mouthed, dip-spitting truck driver who torments him but also trains him up, and helps Smith "make a hand." The Good Hand is ultimately a book about transformation--a classic American story of one man's attempt to burn himself clean through hard work, to reconcile himself to himself, to find community, and to become whole.
Oil War
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Author : Robert Goralski
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date : 1987
Oil War written by Robert Goralski and has been published by William Morrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
The full story of the role that oil played in the origins and outcome of World War II.
Japan S Carnival War
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Author : Benjamin Uchiyama
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-14
Japan S Carnival War written by Benjamin Uchiyama and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-14 with History categories.
This cultural history of the Japanese home front during the Asia-Pacific War challenges ideas of the period as one of unrelenting repression. Uchiyama demonstrates that 'carnival war' coexisted with the demands of total war to promote consumerist desire alongside sacrifice and fantasy alongside nightmare, helping mobilize the war effort.