{"product_id":"workers-at-war-labor-in-chinas-arsenals-19371953-9780804748964","title":"Workers at War  Labor in Chinas Arsenals 19371953","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 China's wartime capital, Chongqing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Howard does not outright refute existing interpretations but rather convincingly demonstrates that Chinese arsenal workers developed regional, class-based, and national identities simultaneously.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...[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.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe International History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Altogether, this is a fine achievement that succeeds in significantly redrawing the lines of debate within the now quite extensive historiography of Chinese labor.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWorkers at War\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"—\u003ci\u003eInternational Labor and Working Class History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eLabor History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"—\u003ci\u003exJOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a landmark work.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Social History\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405556916567,"sku":"9780804748964","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/workers-at-war-labor-in-chinas-arsenals-19371953-9780804748964","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}