At the turn of the 21st century, a general disempowerment of industrial workers in the United States yielded pessimistic assessments of the labor movement. Yet, during the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, industrial war‐provisioning workers in the United States engaged in a wave of largely successful struggles for a greater share of expanding war‐profits. This article investigates these strikes in war‐provisioning industries from 1993 to 2016, finding a wave of offensive struggles between 2003 and 2009. This wave is indicative of an increase in these workers’ structural bargaining power, due to growing state reliance on war‐materials provisioning during wartime. Nevertheless, transformations in the organization of production and war‐making made such empowerment ephemeral. This article demonstrates how changes in military actions and strategy—most notably, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Obama “pivot” to East Asia, and escalating “great power” rivalry—affect the bargaining power of workers in war‐provisioning industries.

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美国的战争与工人权力：战争提供行业中的劳工斗争，1993–2016年

在21世纪之交，美国普遍丧失了对工业工人的权力，对劳工运动产生了悲观的评估。然而，在伊拉克和阿富汗战争的高潮时期，美国的提供工业战争准备工作的工人进行了一系列大获成功的斗争，以争取更多的扩大战争利润。本文研究了1993年至2016年间战争准备业的罢工，发现了2003年至2009年之间的一波进攻性斗争。这波浪潮表明，由于国家对战争物资的依赖性日益增强，这些工人的结构议价能力有所提高在战时进行调配。然而，生产和战争组织的转变使得这种赋权变得短暂。