Table of Contents for Workers at War

Workers at War
Labor in China’s Arsenals, 1937-1953
Joshua H. Howard
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Table of Contents for

Workers at War

Forward by Arif Dirlik

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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