Title: Workers at war : labor in China's arsenals, 1937-1953 /
Authors: Howard, Joshua H.
Publisher: Stanford Univ. Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Labor China Chongqing History; China History; China History; Chongqing (China) History
Abstract: "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."--Jacket.
Contents: To buy or to build? Economic development and the arms industry -- Fortresses of the great rear: the wartime economy of the arms industry -- Finding work: origins and composition of the arsenal workforce -- Inside the arsenals: conditions of work and life -- Chongqing's most wanted: the mobility and resistance of arsenal workers -- The Nationalist Project: coercion, consent, and conflict -- Organizing, 1937-1946 -- The Labor Movement, 1946-1949 -- Yu Zusheng: organic intellectuals and the moral basis of class -- Deepening the revolution, 1950-1953.