Under Contract The Invisible Workers of America's Global War

Name: Under Contract The Invisible Workers of America's Global War
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ISBN: 9781503605367

ISBN-10: 1503605361

ISBN-13: 9781503605367

Edition: 2018

Authors: Noah Coburn

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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 who then contract out individual jobs, often to the lowest bidder. Go to an "American" base in Afghanistan or Iraq, and you will find workers from places like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Turkey, Bosnia, and Nepal: so-called "third-country nationals." Tens of thousands of these workers are now fixtures on American bases. And yet, in the plethora of records kept by the U.S. government, they are unseen and…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2018
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 9/4/2018
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 408
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English