About the Author

Joshua H. Howard is the Croft Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Mississippi.

Reviews

"Howard does not outright refute existing interpretations but rather convincingly demonstrates that Chinese arsenal workers developed regional, class-based, and national identities simultaneously." - CHOICE "...[T]his readable work provides important insight into the Nationalist defence sector during the Sino-Japanese War, and is a significant contribution to the study of Chinese labour in wartime Nationalist China." - The International History Review "Altogether, this is a fine achievement that succeeds in significantly redrawing the lines of debate within the now quite extensive historiography of Chinese labor." - American Historical Review "Workers at War is a finely researched and richly documented book based on extensive archive research and oral interviews...[Howard]'s skillful documentary research of using many unexplored archives, local, national, and international, sources, hi "The book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on labor history but will also appeal to those who are interested more generally in the history of modern China. It provides rich documentation about the political struggles between the Guomingdang