Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Day of Reflection. Nobody can read everything that appears here each day, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
I'm going to shamelessly self-post, since I put something up on the Saturday Readings late last night and don't think that many have had the chance to see it.
Here I talk a little bit about my recent readings regarding Labour Process Theory and its applicability to the study of factory work in the modern era - I'm trying to make sense of how it can be combined with other trends to make it more inclusive. I'd love to hear anybody's thoughts on the issue, as it directly relates to the chapter I'm working on at the moment.
I'd like to thank /u/bcccl for his(?) responses to my question on the reception of European music in China. There's a lot of info there on things I'd never heard of, including the cosmopolitan court of the Kangxi Emperor, Jesuits in China, and of course the reception of European music in China. Check it out if you haven't already.
/u/elos_ went kind of overboard on his look at the evolution of mid-to-late 19th century warfare.
/u/the_alaskan did a nice summary of the evidence concerning the USS Maine.