Bodies of Work examines the transnational development of large-scale national systems, international organizations, technologies, and cultural material aimed at rehabilitating Allied ex-servicemen, disabled in the First World War. When nations mobilised in August 1914, it was thought that casualties would be minimal and the war would be quickly over. Little consideration was given to what ought to be done for those men whose bodies would forever bear the marks of war's destruction. Julie M. Powell charts how rehabilitation emerged as the best means to deal with millions of disabled ex-servicemen. She considers the ways in which rehabilitation was shaped by both durable and discrete influences, including social reformism, paternalist philanthropy, the movement for workers' rights, patriotism, class tensions, cultural ideas about manliness and disability, nationalism, and internationalism. Powell sheds light on the ways in which rehabilitation systems became sites for the contestation and maintenance of boundaries of belonging.
Author(s): Julie M. Powell
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 282
City: Cambridge
01.0_pp_i_i_Bodies_of_Work
02.0_pp_ii_ii_Studies_in_the_Social_and_Cultural_History_of_Modern_Warfare
03.0_pp_iii_iii_Bodies_of_Work
04.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page
05.0_pp_v_vi_Dedication
06.0_pp_vii_vii_Contents
07.0_pp_viii_viii_Figures
08.0_pp_ix_ix_Tables
09.0_pp_x_xii_Acknowledgements
10.0_pp_1_22_Introduction_Whole_Nations_in_Arms
11.0_pp_23_59_The_Gospel_of_Rehabilitation
12.0_pp_60_105_A_Great_Army_of_Industrial_Soldiers
13.0_pp_106_135_A_Duty_Incumbent_on_All_Allied_People
14.0_pp_136_182_He_Marches_Off_On_an_Entente_Leg
15.0_pp_183_220_A_Charge_Almost_If_Not_Quite_as_Sacred
16.0_pp_221_229_Conclusion_The_Right_to_Rehabilitation
17.0_pp_230_251_Bibliography
18.0_pp_252_257_Index
