Work or Fight! Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One

Name: Work or Fight! Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One
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ISBN: 9781403961778

ISBN-10: 1403961778

ISBN-13: 9781403961778

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gerald E. Shenk, Gerald Shenk

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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 participated in civic activities, had the full benefits of citizenship without fighting. Women, men of color, and poor white men were often barred from achieving these benefits. This book uses the records of local draft boards and state draft officials in Georgia, New Jersey, Illinois, and California to tell the stories of men and women whose lives were touched by the Selective Service System.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 3/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 194
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction


"The Finest Type of Manhood": Local Government and the Grounding of White Manhood


Picking "The Flower of American Manhood": Local Draft Boards and Their Communities


"The Darkness in Georgia": State Selective Service in Georgia


"A Man is No Man That is Not Willing To Fight: State Selective Service in Illinois


"He's his Mother's Boy":;Go and Get Him: State Selective Service in New Jersey


"The Final Report"