Empire’s Labor The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars / Adam Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Adam, 1976- author.

, UCLA, Author.

Contributor:

funder.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logistics--Contracting out--United States.

Logistics.

Private military companies--Employees.

Private military companies.

United States--Armed Forces--Foreign countries.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 2019

Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Adam Moore is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Peacebuilding in Practice. Follow him on X @ConflictGeo.

Summary:

"This book is about the labor required to sustain the U.S. military's various overseas operations, both recognized wars and clandestine campaigns, and the experiences of people from around the world who perform it. The military is profoundly dependent on a global army of labor that comes from countries as diverse as Bosnia, the Philippines, Turkey, India, Kenya, England, Sierra Leone and Fiji"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From camp followers to a global army of labor

Colonial legacies and labor export

The wages of peace and war

Supplying war

Assembling a transnational workforce

Dark routes

Activism

Relations

Home

Conclusion : empire's labor.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501716393

1501716395

OCLC:

1088671608

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access