Soldiers As Workers

Author : Nick Mansfield (Historian)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781382783

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Soldiers as Workers by Nick Mansfield (Historian) Pdf

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.

Author : Nick Mansfield (Historian)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Labor
ISBN : 1781383960

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Soldiers as Workers by Nick Mansfield (Historian) Pdf

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.

Author : NICK. MANSFIELD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800348975

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SOLDIERS AS WORKERS by NICK. MANSFIELD Pdf

Author : Kiran Klaus Patel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521834163

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Soldiers of Labor by Kiran Klaus Patel Pdf

A systematic comparison between the Nazi Labor Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Author : Nick Mansfield
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781383841

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Soldiers as Workers by Nick Mansfield Pdf

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.

Author : Edward J Coss
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806185453

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All for the King's Shilling by Edward J Coss Pdf

The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded by the duke’s own words—“scum of the earth”—and assumed to have been society’s ne’er-do-wells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice. Now Edward J. Coss shows to the contrary that most of these redcoats were respectable laborers and tradesmen and that it was mainly their working-class status that prompted the duke’s derision. Driven into the army by unemployment in the wake of Britain’s industrial revolution, they confronted wartime hardship with ethical values and became formidable soldiers in the bargain These men depended on the king’s shilling for survival, yet pay was erratic and provisions were scant. Fed worse even than sixteenth-century Spanish galley slaves, they often marched for days without adequate food; and if during the campaign they did steal from Portuguese and Spanish civilians, the theft was attributable not to any criminal leanings but to hunger and the paltry rations provided by the army. Coss draws on a comprehensive database on British soldiers as well as first-person accounts of Peninsular War participants to offer a better understanding of their backgrounds and daily lives. He describes how these neglected and abused soldiers came to rely increasingly on the emotional and physical support of comrades and developed their own moral and behavioral code. Their cohesiveness, Coss argues, was a major factor in their legendary triumphs over Napoleon’s battle-hardened troops. The first work to closely examine the social composition of Wellington’s rank and file through the lens of military psychology, All for the King’s Shilling transcends the Napoleonic battlefield to help explain the motivation and behavior of all soldiers under the stress of combat.

Author : Khary Oronde Polk
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469655512

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Contagions of Empire by Khary Oronde Polk Pdf

From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Department's belief that southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars I and II, black troops were stigmatized as members of a contagious "venereal race" and were subjected to experimental medical treatments meant to curtail their sexual desires. By turns feared as contagious and at other times valued for their immunity, black men and women played an important part in the U.S. military's conscription of racial, gender, and sexual difference, even as they exercised their embattled agency at home and abroad. By following the scientific, medical, and cultural history of African American enlistment through the archive of American militarism, this book traces the black subjects and agents of empire as they came into contact with a world globalized by warfare.

Author : John Burnett
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307418722

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Where Soldiers Fear to Tread by John Burnett Pdf

“There is going to be a shooting here and it is a toss-up who is going to get the boy’s first round. The soldier, about ten years old, is jamming the barrel of his gun hard against my driver’s face, and unless the kid decides to go for me, the relief worker, my driver is going to get his head blown off.” WHERE SOLDIERS FEAR TO TREAD John Burnett survived this ordeal and others during his service as a relief worker in Somalia. But many did not. In this gripping firsthand account, Burnett shares his experiences during the flood relief operations of 1997 to 1998. Ravaged by monsoons, starvation, and feuding warlords, Somalia continues to be one of the most dangerous places on earth. Both a personal story and a broader tale of war, the politics of aid, and the horrifying reality of child-soldiers, his chronicle represents the astonishing challenges faced by humanitarian workers across the globe. There are currently thousands of civilian workers serving in over one hundred nations. Today, they are as likely to be killed in the line of duty as are trained soldiers. In the past five years alone, more UN aid workers have been killed than peacekeepers. When Burnett joined the World Food Program, he was told their mission would be safe, their help welcomed–and they would be pulled out if bullets started to fly. When he arrived in Somalia, Burnett found a nation rent by a decade of anarchy, a people wary of foreign intervention, and a discomfiting uncertainty that the UN would remember he’d been sent there at all. From Burnett’s young Somali driver to the armed civilians, warlords, and colleagues he would never see again, this unforgettable memoir delves into the complexity of humanitarian missions and the wonder of everyday people who risk their lives to help others in places too dangerous to send soldiers. “Where Soldiers Fear to Tread is a rousing adventure story and a troubling morality tale....If you’ve ever sent 20 bucks off to a relief organization, you owe it to yourself to read this book.”--Michael Maren, author of The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance: Occupational Analysis
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780309172929

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The Changing Nature of Work by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance: Occupational Analysis Pdf

Although there is great debate about how work is changing, there is a clear consensus that changes are fundamental and ongoing. The Changing Nature of Work examines the evidence for change in the world of work. The committee provides a clearly illustrated framework for understanding changes in work and these implications for analyzing the structure of occupations in both the civilian and military sectors. This volume explores the increasing demographic diversity of the workforce, the fluidity of boundaries between lines of work, the interdependent choices for how work is structured-and ultimately, the need for an integrated systematic approach to understanding how work is changing. The book offers a rich array of data and highlighted examples on: Markets, technology, and many other external conditions affecting the nature of work. Research findings on American workers and how they feel about work. Downsizing and the trend toward flatter organizational hierarchies. Autonomy, complexity, and other aspects of work structure. The committee reviews the evolution of occupational analysis and examines the effectiveness of the latest systems in characterizing current and projected changes in civilian and military work. The occupational structure and changing work requirements in the Army are presented as a case study.

Author : Clayton D. Laurie
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0160882680

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The role of federal military forces in domestic disorders, 1877-1945 by Clayton D. Laurie Pdf

CMH 30-15. Army Historical Series. 2nd of three planned volumes on the history of Army domestic support operations. This volume encompasses the period of the rise of industrial America with attendant social dislocation and strife. Major themes are: the evolution of the Army's role in domestic support operations; its strict adherence to law; and the disciplined manner in which it conducted these difficult and often unpopular operations.

Author : Erik-Jan Zürcher
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048517251

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Fighting for a living by Erik-Jan Zürcher Pdf

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.

Author : Michael S. Engel
Publisher : PenSoft Publishers LTD
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789546426178

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Contributions Celebrating Kumar Krishna by Michael S. Engel Pdf

The present issue of ZooKeys comprises a series of papers honoring Prof. Kumar Krishna, the leading au-thority on the systematics and biology of termites (Isoptera). After becoming exposed to termite systematics under the tutelage of Mittan L. Roonwal in India, Kumar received his doctoral training from the legendary termite systematist and evolutionary biologist Alfred E. Emerson at the University of Chicago. Subsequently, Kumar moved to the City University of New York and the American Museum of Natural History from where, even today, he has produced some of the most important contributions to the study of termites, most notably his two-volume set, Biology of Termites (1969?1970, Academic Press), and the forthcoming monumental Treatise on the Isoptera of the World (AMNH). Herein colleagues and friends recognize his lifetime of accomplishments in biological systematics by presenting original papers on insect lineages as diverse as termites and grasshoppers, and flies and bees, among others. A brief biographical account and list of his publications to date are provided.

Author : Guoqi Xu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Bart Kennedy
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Labor
ISBN : UOM:39015063053675

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Soldiers of Labour by Bart Kennedy Pdf

Author : Peter W. J. Bartrip,Sandra Burman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4354610

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The Wounded Soldiers of Industry by Peter W. J. Bartrip,Sandra Burman Pdf

This book traces the process whereby Britain moved from being a society without industrial safety legislation to one in which a multitude of laws sought to protect the worker at the workplace. Ranging from the beginning of the reform movement to the passing of the Workmen's Compensation Act, the authors look at the legal and financial position of workers in the 1830s and before; the 19th-century statistics on work injury in mines, railways, and factories; and the significance of the new industrial law.