Military Job

This book, compiled by Erik Jan Zürcher, consists of articles by expert academics examining the military workforce around the world. It focuses on military labor relations in a wide geography including Europe, the Middle East and Africa and over a wide time period covering the years 1500-2000. It reveals what kind of changes the military workforce, which is discussed in different categories, from the starting point of military service to the permanent army, from the military service performed by force as if paying taxes, to the transformation of this duty into a paid "job", to the concept of compulsory and voluntary military service and to free labor force, has gone through over time to its current state. putting it. While doing this, he makes comparisons with military operations in different regions and times, as well as in the same period and similar geographies.

“If we decide to view the work that soldiers do as labor, it is of course fair to ask whether military labor is fundamentally different from other forms of labor. It can be argued that the work of the soldiers is unique, because by killing their fellow humans in the line of work, they openly violate humanity's greatest taboo. […] However, whatever the source of its exceptionalism, ultimately an army is established on the basis of the factors of capital and labor, like every branch of industry, and for this very reason, it is possible to consider the activities of soldiers as another type of business.”

-ERIK JAN ZÜRCHER-

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Number of Pages: 664

Size: 15 x 21.5

Media Type: Paperback