Workers at War: Labor in China's Arsenals, 1937-1953

by Joshua H. Howard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150363647X
• ISBN13: 9781503636477
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"