Labor S Great War

Author : Joseph A. McCartin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781469617039

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Labor’s Great War by Joseph A. McCartin Pdf

Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in the workplace. In his comprehensive look at labor issues during the decade of the Great War, McCartin explores the political, economic, and social forces that gave rise to this conflict and shows how rising labor militancy and the sudden erosion of managerial control in wartime workplaces combined to create an industrial crisis. The search for a resolution to this crisis led to the formation of an influential coalition of labor Democrats, AFL unionists, and Progressive activists on the eve of U.S. entry into the war. Though the coalition's efforts in pursuit of industrial democracy were eventually frustrated by powerful forces in business and government and by internal rifts within the movement itself, McCartin shows how the shared quest helped cement the ties between unionists and the Democratic Party that would subsequently shape much New Deal legislation and would continue to influence the course of American political and labor history to the present day.

Author : William J. Breen
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0873385594

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Labor Market Politics and the Great War by William J. Breen Pdf

During World War I, the Department of Labour established control of the labour market, which angered the states that had created their own employment services. This study examines how federalism influenced the development of government labour market policy in the early 20th century.

Author : Radhika Singha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197566909

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The Coolie's Great War by Radhika Singha Pdf

Though largely invisible in histories of the First World War, over??550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian army were non-combatants. From the porters, stevedores and construction workers in the Coolie Corps to those who maintained supply lines and removed the wounded from the battlefield, Radhika Singha recovers the story of this unacknowledged service. The labor regimes built on the backs of these 'coolies' sustained the military infrastructure of empire; their deployment in interregional arenas bent to the demands of global war. Viewed as racially subordinate and subject to 'non-martial' caste designations, they fought back against their status, using the warring powers' need for manpower as leverage to challenge traditional service hierarchies and wage differentials. The Coolie's Great War views that global conflict through the lens of Indian labor, constructing a distinct geography of the war--from tribal settlements and colonial jails, beyond India's frontiers, to the battlefronts of France and Mesopotamia.

Author : Guoqi Xu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674060555

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Strangers on the Western Front by Guoqi Xu Pdf

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 : Anne Cipriano Venzon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135684532

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The United States in the First World War by Anne Cipriano Venzon Pdf

First Published in 1999. Includes six maps.

Author : G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597907

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Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 by G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries Pdf

Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.

Author : Bruno Cabanes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107020627

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The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924 by Bruno Cabanes Pdf

Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.

Author : J. M. Winter,Geoffrey Parker,Mary Ruth Habeck,Mary R. Habeck,Professor Jay Winter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300081545

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The Great War and the Twentieth Century by J. M. Winter,Geoffrey Parker,Mary Ruth Habeck,Mary R. Habeck,Professor Jay Winter Pdf

World War I, the first 'total war' in history, set in motion profound changes in the economies, demographics, and philosophies of the warring states. In this book, leading experts on the Great War discuss its causes, character, and legacy. Their writings show that to study World War I is to encounter not only the dissolution of the four defeated empires-Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey-but also the collapse of the optimistic assumption of progress that had defined the nineteenth century.

Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252056833

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Hard Work by Melvyn Dubofsky Pdf

A career-spanning collection of writings by the legendary labor historian One of American labor history's most prominent scholars, Melvyn Dubofsky curated an accessible style and historical reach that have long marked his work as required reading for students and scholars. This collection juxtaposes Dubofsky's early writings with scholarship from the 1990s. Selections include work on western working-class radicalism, U.S. labor history in transnational and comparative settings, and the impact of technological change on American worker’s movements. Throughout, the writings provide an invaluable eyewitness perspective on the academic and political climate of the 1960s and 1970s while tracing the development of labor history as a discipline. An exploration of important themes in labor history, Hard Work combines essential scholarship with the story of how past and present interact in the work of historians.

Author : Nancy Gentile Ford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313352218

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The Great War and America by Nancy Gentile Ford Pdf

The First World War marked a key turning point in America's involvement on the global stage. Isolationism fell, and America joined the ranks of the Great Powers. Civil-Military relations faced new challenges as a result. Ford examines the multitude of changes that stemmed from America's first major overseas coalition war, including the new selective service process; mass mobilization of public opinion; training diverse soldiers; civil liberties, anti-war sentiment and conscientious objectors; segregation and warfare; Americans under British or French command. Post war issues of significance, such as the Red Scare and retraining during demobilization are also covered. Both the federal government and the military were expanding rapidly both in terms of size and in terms of power during this time. The new group of citizen-soldiers, diverse in terms of class, religion, ethnicity, regional identity, education, and ideology, would provide training challenges. New government-military-business relationships would experience failures and successes. Delicate relationships with allies would translate into diplomatic considerations and battlefield command concerns.

Author : Marc Ferro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134499212

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The Great War by Marc Ferro Pdf

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John Morrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134957064

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The Great War by John Morrow Pdf

The Great War is a landmark history that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism. Set to overturn conventional accounts of what happened during this, the first truly international conflict, it extends the study of the First World War beyond the confines of Europe and the Western Front. By recounting the experiences of people from the colonies especially those brought into the war effort either as volunteers or through conscription, John Morrow's magisterial work also unveils the impact of the war in Asia, India and Africa. From the origins of World War One to its bloody (and largely unknown) aftermath, The Great War is distinguished by its long chronological coverage, first person battle and home front accounts, its pan European and global emphasis and the integration of cultural considerations with political.

Author : John Howard Morrow
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415204402

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The Great War by John Howard Morrow Pdf

Includes index . bibliography, p. [333] - 347.

Author : Stephen Broadberry,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139448352

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The Economics of World War I by Stephen Broadberry,Mark Harrison Pdf

This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Labor
ISBN : UCD:31175029876912

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Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics by Anonim Pdf