ISBN:
9789089644527
,
9089644520
,
9048517257
,
9789048517268
,
9048517265
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9789048517251
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
The Hague OAPEN Knowledge unlatched pilot collection
Series Statement:
Work around the globe 1
Series Statement:
historical comparisons and connections
Series Statement:
Work around the globe
Keywords:
Military recruitment
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Military employment
;
Comparative history Europe, Asia, Middle East
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Recruiting and enlistment Case studies History
;
Armed Forces Case studies Vocational guidance
;
History
;
Political science
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Political Science
;
Asia Armed Forces
;
Vocational guidance
;
Europe Armed Forces
;
Vocational guidance
;
United States Armed Forces
;
Vocational guidance
;
Middle East Armed Forces
;
Vocational guidance
;
Electronic books
;
Militärwissenschaft
;
Rekrutierung
;
Soldat
;
Geschichte 1500-2000
Abstract:
"Fighting for a living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe, over the last 500 years. Offering a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia, this volume is not military history in the traditional sense, but looks at military service and warfare as forms of labour, and at soldiers as workers. Military employment offers excellent opportunities for international comparison: armies as a form of organized violence are ubiquitous, and soldiers, in one form or another, are always part of the picture, in any period and in every region. Fighting for a living is the first study to undertake a systematic comparative analysis of military labour. It therefore will be of interest to both labour historians and military historians, as well as to sociologists, political scientists, and other social scientists"--Page 4 of cover
Note:
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