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Paperback "Work or Fight!": Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One Book

ISBN: 1403961778

ISBN13: 9781403961778

"Work or Fight!": Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One

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During World War I, the US demanded that all able-bodied adult men "work or fight." But fighting was mostly assigned to single white men who were not engaged in "productive" work. White men who were proper husbands and fathers, owned property, or worked at approved jobs, and who participated in civic activities, had the full benefits of citizenship without fighting. Women, men of color, and poor white men were often barred from achieving these benefits...

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