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Manchester
The Mills and the Immigrant Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2000
This fascinating and moving book brings to life the industrial and immigrant experience which gave birth to Manchester in the nineteenth century and continued to shape the city's destiny well into the twentieth century. More than a hundred years ago, thousands of immigrants from Europe and Canada were...
by Tamara K. Hareven
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Through the prism of one turn-of-the-century factory-city, Tamara Hareven and Randolph Langenbach have captured the historic experience of millions of Americans. We hear for the first time the eloquent voices—sometimes elegiac, sometimes bitter, yet always powerful—of immigrant being turned into...
Cracked
How Telephone Operators Took on Canada’s Largest Corporation ... And Won
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award — Winner
2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated
The story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women’s workplace rights.
In the 1970s, Bell Canada was Canada’s...
by Giles Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Is Your CI Delivering Results?
Continuous Improvement, or CI, is a heavily used term that often doesn't deliver the results that are hoped for. Common approaches to CI often focus on supporting businesses to eliminate their problems and become 'OK' in terms of business performance. However, most people...
Africa's New Oil
Power, Pipelines and Future Fortunes
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The development of Africa’s oil has greatly accelerated in recent years, with some countries looking at the prospect of almost unimaginable flows of money into their national budgets. But the story of African oil has usually been associated with conflict, corruption and disaster, with older producers...
The Nigerian Oil Economy
From Prosperity to Glut
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The development of Nigeria's oil industry is examined comprehensively in this book, originally published in 1984. It charts the changing course of her economy and examines the dramatic effect oil has had on Nigeria's domestic and international policies. Oil has enabled her to command a powerful position...
Trade, the WTO and Energy Security
Mapping the Linkages for India
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The linkages between WTO rules governing trade and energy security with a certain degree of focus on India are the main subject of this book. The edited volume brings together the views of academics, policymakers and experts with extensive experience covering WTO and international trade issues. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Making a detailed contribution to geographies of air transport and aeromobility, this book examines the practices and processes that produce particular patterns of air transport provision both regionally and globally. In so doing, it updates the seminal contributions of Eva Taylor (1945), Kenneth...
Aviation Security
After Four Decades, It's Time for a Fundamental Review
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
While security budgets shrink, passenger loads grow, and hostility towards security procedures increases, terrorist groups such as al Qaeda remain obsessed with attacking airplanes. In the face of these challenges and real, innovative threats, the author proposes a mechanism for conducting an independent...
The Dodge Brothers
The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2005
At the start of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, the Dodge Brothers supplied nearly every car part needed by the up-and-coming auto giant. After fifteen years of operating a successful automotive supplier company, much to Ford’s advantage, John and Horace Dodge again changed the face of the automotive...
Riding the Roller Coaster
A History of the Chrysler Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
From the Chrysler Six of 1924 to the front-wheel-drive vehicles of the 70s and 80s to the minivan, Chrysler boasts an impressive list of technological "firsts." But even though the company has catered well to a variety of consumers, it has come to the brink of financial ruin more than once in its seventy-five-year...
by Bunny Ultramod
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2011
Ultramod's book is intended for playwrights who are not satisfied with being the anonymous figures behind stage plays, relegated to a paragraph or two in a playbill while institutional theaters tale a lion's share of the publicity. He makes the case that a playwright's career is dependent on the playwright...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Payola involved the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, celebrity disc jockeys like Alan Freed and Dick Clark, and the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. American President Dwight Eisenhower asked his attorney general to look into the matter following...
by Potter
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
This e-book is about how I was robbed of my money and my mental stability by the auto mechanic industry. My self esteem and quality of life was robbed by a few mechanics who really were only out for profits. In this ebook I share my experience and give good sound advice on what I think you as a consumer...