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Book Synopsis Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers Around the World by : Raquel Varela
Download or read book Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers Around the World written by Raquel Varela and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover; Contents; 1. Introduction / Marcel van der Linden, Hugh Murphy, and Raquel Varela; North-western Europe; 2. Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century / Hugh Murphy; 3. Bremer Vulkan: A case study of the West German shipbuilding industry and its narratives in the second half of the twentieth century / Johanna Wolf; 4. From boom to bust: Kockums, Malmö (Sweden), 1950-1986 / Tobias Karlsson.
Book Synopsis Fleeting Opportunities by : Amy Kesselman
Download or read book Fleeting Opportunities written by Amy Kesselman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the daily lives of women industrial workers in World War II shipyards. It focuses on their struggle against the persistence of occupational segregation, the sexual and racial hierarchy of the shipyard work force, and the pervasive emphasis on female sexuality which served as a constant reminder that women were transient and marginal imposters. In addition, Fleeting Opportunities demonstrates that despite the myth that these women yearned to return to their kitchens, in fact many wanted to continue using their wartime skills in the postwar period. However, finding themselves excluded from jobs by union and management, those who continued to work ended up in low-paying, predominantly female occupations.
Book Synopsis Traitor in the Shipyard by : Kathleen Ernst
Download or read book Traitor in the Shipyard written by Kathleen Ernst and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline worries that British spies may be lurking in Sackets Harbor. When strange things start happening at Abbott's Shipyard, Caroline wonders if a spy, either someone she has known all her life or Papa's long-lost friend, is responsible.
Download or read book Heavy Metal written by Michael Fabey and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the John F. Kennedy. Tip the Empire State Building onto its side and you’ll have a sense of the length of the United States Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the most powerful in the world: the USS John F. Kennedy. Weighing 100,000 tons, Kennedy features the most futuristic technology ever put to sea, making it the most agile and lethal global weapon of war. Only one place possesses the brawn, brains and brass to transform naval warfare with such a creation – the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia and its 30,000 employees and shipyard workers. This is their story, the riggers, fitters, welders, electricians, machinists and other steelworkers who built the next-generation aircraft carrier. Heavy Metal puts us on the waterfront and into the lives of these men and women as they battle layoffs, the elements, impossible deadlines, extraordinary pressure, workplace dangers and a pandemic to complete a ship that will be essential to protect America’s way of life. The city of Newport News owes its very existence to the company that bears its name. The shipyard dominates the town—physically, politically, financially, socially, and culturally. Thanks to the yard, the city grew from a backwater to be the home of the premier naval contractor in the United States. Heavy Metal captures an indelible moment in the history of a shipyard, a city, and a country.
Book Synopsis Wartime Shipyard by : Katherine Archibald
Download or read book Wartime Shipyard written by Katherine Archibald and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening first-hand account of life in a WWII shipyard from a woman's perspective In 1942, Katherine Archibald, a graduate student at Berkeley, left the halls of academe to spend two years working in a nearby Oakland shipyard. She arrived with a host of preconceptions about the American working class, race relations and the prospect for their improvement, and wartime unity. Her experience working in a shipyard where women were seen as intruders, where "Okies" and black migrants from the South were regarded with barely-disguised hatred, and where trade unions preferred protecting their turf to defending workers' rights, threw much of her liberal faith into doubt. Archibald's 1947 book about her experiences, Wartime Shipyard: A Study in Social Disunity, remains a classic account of life and labor on the home front. This new edition includes an introduction written by historians Eric Arnesen and Alex Lichtenstein, who explore Archibald's work in light of recent scholarship on women and African Americans in the wartime workplace.
Book Synopsis Shipyard Industry by : United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Download or read book Shipyard Industry written by United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Seattle General Strike by : Robert Friedheim
Download or read book The Seattle General Strike written by Robert Friedheim and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead—NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!” With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most important general strikes in US history. For six tense yet nonviolent days, the Central Labor Council negotiated with federal and local authorities on behalf of the shipyard workers whose grievances initiated the citywide walkout. Meanwhile, strikers organized to provide essential services such as delivering supplies to hospitals and markets, as well as feeding thousands at union-run dining facilities. Robert L. Friedheim’s classic account of the dramatic events of 1919, first published in 1964 and now enhanced with a new introduction, afterword, and photo essay by James N. Gregory, vividly details what happened and why. Overturning conventional understandings of the American Federation of Labor as a conservative labor organization devoted to pure and simple unionism, Friedheim shows the influence of socialists and the IWW in the city’s labor movement. While Seattle’s strike ended in disappointment, it led to massive strikes across the country that determined the direction of labor, capital, and government for decades. The Seattle General Strike is an exciting portrait of a Seattle long gone and of events that shaped the city’s reputation for left-leaning activism into the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Shipyard by : Juan Carlos Onetti
Download or read book The Shipyard written by Juan Carlos Onetti and published by Serpent's Tail Five Star. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Latin American writer: an inspiration to Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :286 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Fixing of Wage Rates for Naval Shipyard Employees by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Download or read book Fixing of Wage Rates for Naval Shipyard Employees written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :294 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Fixing Wage Rates for Naval Shipyard Employees by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Download or read book Fixing Wage Rates for Naval Shipyard Employees written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (80) S. 2285.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :304 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Fixing of Wage Rates for Navel Shipyard Employees, Hearings Before the Subcommittee of 80-2, on S. 2285 ..., April 5, 7, 8, and 12, 1948 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Download or read book Fixing of Wage Rates for Navel Shipyard Employees, Hearings Before the Subcommittee of 80-2, on S. 2285 ..., April 5, 7, 8, and 12, 1948 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Education and Training Section Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :102 pages Book Rating :4.A/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Training of Shipyard Workers by : United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Education and Training Section
Download or read book The Training of Shipyard Workers written by United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Education and Training Section and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Navigating Austerity by : Laura Bear
Download or read book Navigating Austerity written by Laura Bear and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the heart of this issue, Laura Bear tells the stories of boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, port bureaucrats and river pilots on the Hooghly River, a tributary of the Ganges that flows into the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean. Through their accounts, Bear traces the hidden currents of state debt crises and their often devastating effects. Taking the reader on a voyage along the river, Bear reveals how bureaucrats, entrepreneurs and workers navigate austerity policies. Their attempts to reverse the decline of ruined public infrastructures, environments and urban spaces lead Bear to argue for a radical rethinking of economics according to a social calculus. This is a critical measure derived from the ethical concerns of people affected by national policies. It places issues of redistribution and inequality at the fore of public and environmental plans. Concluding with proposals for restoring more just long term social obligations, Bear suggests new practices of state financing and ways to democratize fiscal policy. Her aim is to transform sovereign debt from a financial problem into a widely debated ethical and political issue. Navigating Austerity contributes to policy studies as well as to the understanding of today's global injustices. It also develops new theories about the significance of state debt, speculation and time for contemporary capitalism. Sited on a single body of water flowing with rhythms of circulation, renewal and transformation, this ambitious and accessible book will be of interest to specialists and general readers.
Download or read book Jimmy Reid written by W. W. J. Knox and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as the best MP Scotland never had, Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at the forefront of the major turning points in the history of industrial relations and politics in Britain, Jimmy's story is an epic one; from a poverty-stricken background in Govan, Glasgow, he became a communist at a young age, leading a national strike of engineering apprentices while only twenty, before being thrown into the national limelight as the leading spokesperson for the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In in 1971-2. Disillusioned with communism he left the Party for Labour and the centre-left before leaving them disenchanted with New Labour to join the Scottish National Party. This enlightening book looks at Jimmy's political journey from Communism, to Labourism, and ultimately to Nationalism (a political life in three acts), which not only speaks of the complexities of left politics after 1945, but also illuminates our understanding of institutions and social change in post-war Britain by showing how they were understood and negotiated by one inspirational individual.
Download or read book The Worker Elite e-book written by Bromma and published by Kersplebedeb Publishing. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite what radical intellectuals often think, workers know quite a bit about where they are situated within the class society (hard to believe, i know!). Thus, it's typical for members of the worker elite to identify themselves as middle class, though of course some workers may adopt that term merely as an inspiration. For the most part, workers decide that they are middle class on a very practical basis: their distinct, all-around preferential status as wage earners, consumers, and "citizens." These workers believe themselves to be separate in essential ways from the proletariat. We should take this perception seriously! These notes take a critical view of the role of the worker elite under capitalism. That doesn't mean I hate middle class workers. I'm one myself. I don't hate intellectuals or farmers or shopkeepers either. Middle class people aren't free under this system. And ultimately we can make individual choices; we can resist capitalism or not. What I have learned to hate are the illusions and the opportunism that go along with middle class privilege. These are what continuously persude the worker elite to join the other middle classes in embracing capitalism. They also motivate the class to manipulate, dominate, and strnagle the freedom struggles of other workers for its own benefit. The main force for revolution will come from within the working class. I believe that today, more than ever. But it will not come from the privileged worker elite. That's a deadly lie that has helped destroy the hopes of generations of radical activists and, more important, the hopes of generations of oppressed people."—Bromma, from the author's preface.
Download or read book Monthly Labor Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Author :United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Industrial Service Section Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :80 pages Book Rating :4.M/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Restaurant Facilities for Shipyard Workers ... by : United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Industrial Service Section
Download or read book Restaurant Facilities for Shipyard Workers ... written by United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Industrial Service Section and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
