[PDF] The Million Pound Strike eBook

Author : Ed Blissett
Publisher : Nbn International
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Airline check-in agents
ISBN : 9781800790599

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Introduction and précis of the dispute -- The Methodological approach -- Different theoretical approaches to the study of strikes -- The causes of the July 18th 2003 strike -- The July 18th-19th 2003 unofficial strike -- The July 21st-30th 2003 negotiations -- The August 2003 - November 2018 negotiations -- Summary, findings, and conclusions.

Author : Jeffrey Kluger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1984812769

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Twelve thrilling and terrifying space-mission failures, told by the bestselling author of Apollo 13! There are so many amazing, daring, and exciting missions to outer space that have succeeded. But for every success, there are mistakes, surprises, and flat-out failures that happen along the way. In this collection, bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jeffrey Kluger recounts twelve such disasters, telling the stories of the astronauts and the cosmonauts, the trials and the errors, the missions and the misses. With stories of missions run by both Americans and Russians during the height of the space race, complete with photos of the people and machines behind them, this book delves into the mishaps and the tragedies, small and large, that led humankind to the moon and beyond. Praise for Disaster Strikes!: * "A thrill ride punctuated with spectacular failures--but also spectacular successes." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review * "The [is] text versatile, efficiently functioning as a collection of short reads or a balanced, book-length narrative . . . Always fascinating, at times unsettling, and highly recommended for elementary and middle school collections." --SLJ, starred review "Each compelling episode is crafted as a self-standing adventure, with an opening hook and a satisfying close, making this an excellent source for readalouds for middle-school classes as well as a pleasure for independent readers." --BCCB "Kluger manages to combine suspenseful storytelling with scientific writing, showcasing the successes of the programs alongside the failures that ended in death or near misses for astronauts. Even students who claim that they don’t like to read will find these 'you-are-there' moments totally engaging." --SLC

Author : Roger Geary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 1985-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052130315X

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Dr Geary provides a fascinating and detailed 1985 account of the changing nature of industrial violence.

Author : Raphael Samuel
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1784786381

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A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London’s East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British Communism in the 1940s. Samuel conjures up the era when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power, brilliantly bringing to life an age in which the Communist Party enjoyed huge prestige as a bulwark for the struggles against fascism and colonialism.

Author : Ronald M. McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1135067538

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This comprehensive guide to research, sources, and theories about nonviolent action as a technique of struggle in social and political conficts discusses the methods and techniques used by groups in various encounters. Although violence and its causes have received a great deal of attention, nonviolent action has not received its due as an international phenomenon with a long history. An introduction that explains the theories and research used in the study provides a practical guide to this essential bibliography of English-language sources. The first part of the book covers case-study materials divided by region and subdivided by country. Within each country, materials are arranged chronologically and topically. The second major part examines the methods and theory of nonviolent action, principled nonviolence, and several closely related areas in social science, such as conflict analysis and social movements. The book is indexed by author and subject.

Author : Ed Blissett
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800790704

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This book describes and analyses the 2003 British Airways (BA) Customer Service Agents' (CSA) 24-hour unofficial strike. It examines the lead up to the dispute, in which negotiations failed to reach an agreement over the launch of BA's Automatic Time Recording and Integrated Airport Resource Management systems, before focusing on the dispute itself and its eventual resolution. Central to the book is the question: why did a group of union members, the majority of whom were young women, become so incensed at an imposed change to their working practices that they took unofficial strike action? This they did in the knowledge that they could all have been legally dismissed. In analysing the strike, the book explores why BA's management imposed such a controversial change to working practices on the company's busiest weekend of the year. A decision which, allegedly, cost the company two-hundred-million pounds, tarnished its reputation, and saw numerous senior managers lose their jobs. How and why the CSAs' three trade unions (the GMB Union, the Transport and General Workers Union and Amicus) reacted in such different ways to the unofficial strike, and then behaved so differently in the subsequent negotiations, is also central to this study.