Empires Labor The Global Army That Supports Us Wars Adam Moore by Adam Moore 9781501716386, 1501716387 instant download after payment.

In a dramatic unveiling of the little-known world of contracted
military logistics, Adam Moore examines the lives of the global army of
laborers who support US overseas wars.Empire's Laborbrings
us the experience of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who
perform jobs such as truck drivers and administrative assistants at
bases located in warzones in the Middle East and Africa. He highlights
the changes the US military has undergone since the Vietnam War, when
the ratio of contractors to uniformed personnel was roughly 1:6. In
Afghanistan it has been as high as 4:1. This growth in logistics
contracting represents a fundamental change in how the US fights wars,
with the military now dependent on a huge pool of contractors recruited
from around the world. It also, Moore demonstrates, has social,
economic, and political implications that extend well beyond the
battlefields.

Focusing on workers from the
Philippines and Bosnia, two major sources of "third country national"
(TCN) military labor, Moore explains the rise of large-scale logistics
outsourcing since the end of the Cold War; describes the networks,
infrastructures, and practices that span the spaces through which
people, information, and goods circulate; and reveals the experiences of
foreign workers, from the hidden dynamics of labor activism on bases,
to the economic and social impacts these jobs have on their families and
the communities they hail from. Through his extensive fieldwork and
interviews, Moore gives voice to the agency and aspirations of the many
thousands of foreigners who labor for the US military.