Jennifer Mittelstadt

Dec 10, 2015

The Rise of the Military Welfare State

Harvard University Press 2015

purchase at bookshop.org Have you seen those Facebook memes floating around, arguing that we shouldn't support a 15-dollar -per-hour minimum wage for service sector workers because the military doesn't earn a living wage? Jennifer Mittelstadt tells us how these stark lines were drawn between the military and the civilian economy - and on how military welfare affects us all. Jennifer Mittelstadt is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Rise of the Military Welfare State (Harvard University Press, 2015). You can read more about her research here.

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