| Review | Journal of Social History, 40.3

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Workers at War: Labor in China's Arsenals, 1937–1953. By Joshua H. Howard (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. pp. xix plus 452. $75).

Howard's work contributes to scholarship of modern Chinese history in two significant ways. First, it represents an effort to re-examine and re-interpret social dynamics of Republican China. Secondly, it is responsive to theoretical concerns for class formation and consciousness among the Chinese laborers. His empirical study is on workers in arms industry, which is isolated from other industrial sectors and under strict control of state. However, the close examination of war experiences of arsenal workers brings a new perspective to study of broad issues of labor history.

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