TY  - BOOK
ED  - Zürcher, Erik-Jan
AB  - 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. It does so on the basis of a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia. The novelty of "Fighting for a Living" is that it is not  military history in the traditional sense (concentrating at wars and battles or on military technology) but that it looks at military service and warfare as forms of labour, and at the soldiers as workers. Military employment offers excellent opportunities for this kind of international comparison. Where many forms of human activity are restricted by the conditions of nature or the stage of development of a given society, organized violence is ubiquitous. Soldiers, in one form or another, are always part of the picture, in any period and in every region. Nevertheless, Fighting for a Living is the first study to undertake a systematic comparative analysis of military labour. It therefore speaks to two distinct, and normally quite separate, communities: that of labour historians and that of military historians. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_468734
ID  - OAPEN ID: 649958
ID  - OAPEN ID: 468734
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37526
KW  - comparative history europe, asia, middle east
KW  - military recruitment
KW  - military employment
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37526/3/468734.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33480/3/468734.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39043
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
PP  - Amsterdam
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9789089644527
TI  - Fighting for a Livingnull
ER  - 
