Under contract : the invisible workers of America's global war /

"War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from manning guard towers to cleaning the latrines to more technical engineering and accounting jobs, has been outsourced to private firms that then contract out in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coburn, Noah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Temas:
2001-2021
Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Participation, Foreign.
Foreign workers > Afghanistan.
Contractors > Afghanistan.
Guerre en Afghānistān, 2001- > Participation étrangère.
Entrepreneurs > Afghānistān.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Contractors.
Foreign workers.
Military participation > Foreign.
Afghanistan.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : no small war
  • Mercenaries, contractors, and other hired guns
  • Nepalis at war
  • One blast, many lives
  • Costs and compensation
  • Manpower
  • Two hundred years of Gurkhas
  • "Who will be a Gurkha?"
  • Through the colonial looking glass
  • The labor of war
  • A protective government?
  • Of roses and revolutions
  • Economic Ottomans
  • Turkish engineers and other heroes of the intervention
  • Building an empire?
  • Detained
  • Kidnapped
  • Hom Bahadur
  • The boredom of being trafficked
  • Accountants at war
  • Classes and gender at war
  • Returning abroad
  • When you can't go home
  • Where the war went.

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