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Soldiers As Workers
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Author : Nick Mansfield (Historian)
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Soldiers As Workers written by Nick Mansfield (Historian) and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most military histories and demonstrates how service in the ranks was not confined to 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of 'respectable' working class men. Common soldiers represent a huge unstudied occupational group. They worked as artisans, servants and dealers, displaying pre-enlistment working class attitudes and evidencing low level class conflict in numerous ways. Soldiers continued as members of the working class after discharge, with military service forming one phase of their careers and overall life experience. After training, most common soldiers had time on their hands and were allowed to work at a wide variety of jobs, analysed here for the first time. Many serving soldiers continued to work as regimental tradesmen, or skilled artificers. Others worked as officers' servants or were allowed to run small businesses, providing goods and services to their comrades. Some, especially the Non Commissioned Officers who actually ran the army, forged extraordinary careers which surpassed any opportunities in civilian life. All the soldiers studied retained much of their working class way of life. This was evidenced in a contract culture similar to that of the civilian trade unions. Within disciplined boundaries, army life resulted in all sorts of low level class conflict. The book explores these by covering drinking, desertion, feigned illness, self harm, strikes and go-slows. It further describes mutinies, back chat, looting, fraternisation, foreign service, suicide and even the shooting of unpopular officers.
Soldiers As Workers
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Author : NICK. MANSFIELD
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
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Soldiers As Workers
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Author : Nick Mansfield (Historian)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Soldiers As Workers written by Nick Mansfield (Historian) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Labor categories.
This book offers the first encounter between labour history and military history, with an analysis of the working lives of nineteenth British rank and file soldiers in the context of a developing working class industrial culture and in its interaction with British society.
Unity Of Soldiers And Workers
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Author : Arthur Olive
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 194?
Unity Of Soldiers And Workers written by Arthur Olive and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 194? with Australia categories.
Soldiers V Workers
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
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Soldiers And Workers An Address
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Author : T. P. Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
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Fighting For A Living
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Author : Erik-Jan Zürcher
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-15
Fighting For A Living written by Erik-Jan Zürcher and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with History categories.
The military, in one form or another, are always part of the picture. This unique and compelling study investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years, on the basis of case studies from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia. The authors, including Robert Johnson, Frank Tallett and Gilles Weinstein, conduct an international comparison of military service and warfare as forms of labour, and the soldiers as workers. This is the first study to undertake a systematic comparative analysis of military labour, addressing two distinct, and normally quite separate, communities: labour historians and military historians.
Soldiers And Workers An Address Etc
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Author : T. P. JOHNSTON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
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Strangers On The Western Front
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Author : Guoqi Xu
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-28
Strangers On The Western Front written by Guoqi Xu and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-28 with History categories.
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.
Soldiers Of Labor
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Author : Kiran Klaus Patel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-09-05
Soldiers Of Labor written by Kiran Klaus Patel 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 2005-09-05 with History categories.
A systematic comparison between the Nazi Labor Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps.