
Workers at War
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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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"Howard does not outright refute existing interpretations but rather convincingly demonstrates that Chinese arsenal workers developed regional, class-based, and national identities simultaneously."-CHOICE "...[T]his readable work provides important insight into the Nationalist defence sector during the Sino-Japanese War, and is a significant contribution to the study of Chinese labour in wartime Nationalist China."-The International History Review "Altogether, this is a fine achievement that succeeds in significantly redrawing the lines of debate within the now quite extensive historiography of Chinese labor."-American Historical Review "Workers at War is a finely researched and richly documented book based on extensive archive research and oral interviews....[Howard]'s skillful documentary research of using many unexplored archives, local, national, and international, sources, his integration of social and political theories, and his adoption of interdisciplinary approaches make his book an exemplary work of scholarship."-International Labor and Working Class History "The book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on labor history but will also appeal to those who are interested more generally in the history of modern China. It provides rich documentation about the political struggles between the Guomingdang and Chinese Communist Party in the periods before and after the War of Resistance against the Japanese invaders....One cannot be but impressed by the author's achievement in assembling such voluminous historical data."-Labor History "This major new contribution brings both theoretical sophistication and imaginative use of sources to the study of a particular, but important, segment of China's working class."-xJOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY "This is a landmark work."-Journal of Social HistoryMore details
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Tables
- Maps and Figures
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. To Buy or to Build? Economic Development and the Arms Industry
- 2. Fortresses of the Great Rear: The Wartime Economy of the Arms Industry
- 3. Finding Work: Origins and Composition of the Arsenal Workforce
- 4. Inside the Arsenals: Conditions of Work and Life
- 5. Chongqing's Most Wanted: The Mobility and Resistance of Arsenal Workers
- 6. The Nationalist Project: Coercion, Consent, and Conflict
- 7. Organizing, 1937-1946
- 8. The Labor Movement, 1946-1949
- 9. Yu Zusheng: Organic Intellectuals and the Moral Basis of Class
- 10. Deepening the Revolution, 1950-1953
- Conclusion
- Appendix: The Sources
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Interviews
- Character List
- Index
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