Working-Class War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Working-Class War write by Christian G. Appy. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Working-Class War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working class of America.--Senator George McGovern "Reminds us of the disturbing truth that some 80 percent of the 2.5 million enlisted men who served in Vietnam--out of 27 million men who reached draft age during the war--came from working-class and impoverished backgrounds. . . . Deals especially well with the apparent paradox that the working-class soldiers' families back home mainly opposed the antiwar movement, and for that matter so with few exceptions did the soldiers themselves.--New York Times Book Review "[Appy's] treatment of the subject makes it clear to his readers--almost as clear as it became for the soldiers in Vietnam--that class remains the tragic dividing wall between Americans.--Boston Globe
The War Against the Working Class
The War Against the Working Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War Against the Working Class write by Will Podmore. This book was released on 2015-05-29. The War Against the Working Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the history of revolutions and counterrevolutions since 1917, in Russia, Korea, Vietnam, China, the countries of Eastern Europe, and Cuba. I present the evidence of their achievements and describe the wars they were forced to fight in self-defence. We can learn from the efforts and the errors of the pioneers, even though their conditions of being pre-industrial and dependent societies were very different from Britains today. The hope is that this book will provoke thought about the future of our nation in order to help us to decide what we need to do, not to copy but to create.
The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914-1916
The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914-1916 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914-1916 write by David Silbey. This book was released on 2004-12-15. The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914-1916 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines what motivated the ordinary British man to go to France in 1914, especially in the early years when Britain relied on the voluntary system to fill the ranks.
Working-Class New York
Working-Class New York - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Working-Class New York write by Joshua B. Freeman. This book was released on 2021-04-20. Working-Class New York available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demise More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. Largely through the efforts of its working class and the dynamic labor movement it built, New York City became the envied model of liberal America and the scourge of conservatives everywhere: cheap and easy-to-use mass transit, work in small businesses and factories that had good wages and benefits, affordable public housing, and healthcare for all. Working-Class New York is an “engrossing” (Dissent) account of the birth of that ideal and the way it came crashing down. In what Publishers Weekly calls “absorbing and beautifully detailed history,” historian Joshua Freeman shows how the anticommunist purges of the 1950s decimated the ranks of the labor movement and demoralized its idealists, and how the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s dealt another crushing blow to liberal ideals as the city’s wealthy elite made a frenzied grab for power. A grand work of cultural and social history, Working-Class New York is a moving chronicle of a dream that died but may yet rise again.
Climate Change as Class War
Climate Change as Class War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate Change as Class War write by Matthew T. Huber. This book was released on 2022-05-10. Climate Change as Class War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to build a movement to confront climate change The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. Yet, the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement up to this challenge. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that appeals to the vast majority of society: the working class. Huber evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and ecological interests and advocates building union power in the very energy system we need to dramatically transform. In the end, as in classical socialist movements of the early 20th Century, winning the climate struggle will need to be internationalist based on a form of planetary working class solidarity.
