"Work or fight!" : race, gender, and the draft in World War One /

During World War I, the US demanded that all able-bodied adult men "work or fight." But fighting was mostly assigned to single white men who were not engaged in "productive" work. White men who were proper husbands and fathers, owned property, or worked at approved jobs, and who...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shenk, Gerald E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
United States. > Selective Service System > History.
United States. > Selective Service System
1865-1918
Recruiting and enlistment.
Recrutement des armées.
HISTORY > Military > World War I.
Recruiting and enlistment
Social conditions
History - General.
History & Archaeology.
United States > Armed Forces > Recruiting, enlistment, etc. > World War, 1914-1918.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1865-1918.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "The darkness in Georgia"
  • Illinois: "A man is not man that is not willing to fight"
  • New Jersey: "He's his mother's boy; go and get him"
  • California: "Please forward Chinese, Japanese and American Indians, but no Negroes"
  • "The final report."

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