Author: Joshua H. Howard
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804748964
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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.
Workers at War
Author: Joshua H. Howard
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804748964
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804748964
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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 Labor Board Crew
Author: Ronald W. Schatz
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052501
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Ronald W. Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management conflicts during the Second World War. The crew (including Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, Jean McKelvey, and Marvin Miller) exerted broad influence on the U.S. economy and society for the next forty years. They handled thousands of grievances and strikes. They founded academic industrial relations programs. When the 1960s student movement erupted, universities appointed them as top administrators charged with quelling the conflicts. In the 1970s, they developed systems that advanced public sector unionization and revolutionized employment conditions in Major League Baseball. Schatz argues that the Labor Board vets, who saw themselves as disinterested technocrats, were in truth utopian reformers aiming to transform the world. Beginning in the 1970s stagflation era, they faced unforeseen opposition, and the cooperative relationships they had fostered withered. Yet their protégé George Shultz used mediation techniques learned from his mentors to assist in the integration of Southern public schools, institute affirmative action in industry, and conduct Cold War negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052501
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Ronald W. Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management conflicts during the Second World War. The crew (including Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, Jean McKelvey, and Marvin Miller) exerted broad influence on the U.S. economy and society for the next forty years. They handled thousands of grievances and strikes. They founded academic industrial relations programs. When the 1960s student movement erupted, universities appointed them as top administrators charged with quelling the conflicts. In the 1970s, they developed systems that advanced public sector unionization and revolutionized employment conditions in Major League Baseball. Schatz argues that the Labor Board vets, who saw themselves as disinterested technocrats, were in truth utopian reformers aiming to transform the world. Beginning in the 1970s stagflation era, they faced unforeseen opposition, and the cooperative relationships they had fostered withered. Yet their protégé George Shultz used mediation techniques learned from his mentors to assist in the integration of Southern public schools, institute affirmative action in industry, and conduct Cold War negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev.
Report of Proceedings of the National War Labor Conference
Author: National war labor conference
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Report of Proceedings of the National War Labor Conference
Author: United States Employment Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The War Labor Administration
Author: United States Information and Education Service. Labor Department
Publisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Labor and Industry and the War
Author: Harry Bridges
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
War Labor Reports
Author: United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Accompanied by "Key...Table of cases, with finding list of regulations, classification of rulings and industry guide to cases" (1 v.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Accompanied by "Key...Table of cases, with finding list of regulations, classification of rulings and industry guide to cases" (1 v.)
Workers at War
Author: Joshua H. Howard
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 150362448X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 150362448X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
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 Termination Report of the National War Labor Board
Author: United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
U.S. Labor Goes to War
Author: United States. War Production Board. Labor Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description