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Book SynopsisA sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fewer possess the intellectual scope needed to address science and economics at a macro as well as a micro level. But Paul Cockshott, using the dual lenses of Marxist economics and technological advance, has managed to pull off a stunningly acute critical perspective of human history, from pre-agricultural societies to the present. In How the World Works, Cockshott connects scientific, economic, and societal strands to produce a sweeping and detailed work of historical analysis. This book will astound readers of all backgrounds and ages; it will also will engage scholars of history, science, and economics for years to come.

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Book SynopsisGetting Healthy in Toxic Times is the first book to connect the health of our planet with our own well-being, and asks the question that very few doctors do how can we protect ourselves from the pollution, chemicals and toxins that pervade our environment?We're all too aware of the traffic pollution in the air, the chemicals in our water, the toxins in the soil (and therefore our food) and the electromagnetic energy emanating from our gadgets. But if we can also understand how they affect our health, not least in the worrying rises in asthma and allergies, infertility, obesity, heart disease, behavioural and neurological disorders as well as cancer, then we can take positive steps to avoid them.We can safeguard ourselves with protective measures, minimise our interactions with those pollutants we can't get away from, ensure our bodies have the right anti-toxin nutrients and take collective action to fight for our health and that of the environment, both local

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Book SynopsisExplains the reality of labor markets and the nature and necessity of class struggle For most economists, labor is simply a commodity, bought and sold in markets like any other – and what happens after that is not their concern. Individual prospective workers offer their services to individual employers, each acting solely out of self-interest and facing each other as equals. The forces of demand and supply operate so that there is neither a shortage nor a surplus of labor, and, in theory, workers and bosses achieve their respective ends. Michael D. Yates, in Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle, offers a vastly different take on the nature of the labor market. This book reveals the raw truth: The labor market is in fact a mere veil over the exploitation of workers. Peek behind it, and we clearly see the extraction, by a small but powerful class of productive property-owning capitalists, of a surplus from a much larger and propertyless class of wage laborers. Work Work Work offers us a glimpse into the mechanisms critical to this subterfuge: In every workplace, capital implements a comprehensive set of control mechanisms to constrain those who toil from defending themselves against exploitation. These include everything from the herding of workers into factories to the extreme forms of surveillance utilized by today’s “captains of industry” like the Waltons family (of the Walmart empire) and Jeff Bezos. In these strikingly lucid and passionately written chapters, Yates explains the reality of labor markets, the nature of work in capitalist societies, and the nature and necessity of class struggle, which alone can bring exploitation – and the system of control that makes it possible – to a final end.Trade ReviewA high percentage of people in the wealthy centers like the United States see capitalism as doing more harm than good. A rising generation of workers sees system change as our best hope for a livable existence. People want better, more meaningful work that doesn't kill us. Work, Work, Work is exactly what we need. For all of us concerned about how we escape from the racist, sexist, and ecologically destructive, winner-takes-all brutality of capitalism, this book is our indispensable guide and a manifesto for our times." .-- " Hannah Holleman, organizer and professor of sociology at Amherst College" Praise for Can the Working Class Change the World? // It is no small feat to argue for the transformative power of a class whose members often act against their own objective interests and are wrought with seemingly insurmountable divisions. Nevertheless, in six carefully crafted chapters, Yates manages to achieve just this. In a format and style accessible to those in which he places his faith, he explains who the contemporary working class is, why it is capable of changing the world, its victories thus far and the challenges before it, and crucially, provides practical suggestions for its struggle against exploitation and expropriation. --Lucia Morgans, Marx & Philosophy

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Zimmer has produced a powerful text that brings to life numerous forgotten rebels and significantly expands our understanding of anti-statist social movements in the first half of the twentieth century… This immaculately researched and carefully composed monograph thus sets a new bar for the study of anarchism."--Anarchist Studies"Most students of US radicalism have long assumed that anarchism was brought to the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by immigrants from eastern and southern Europe. Zimmer demonstrates that the real story is more complicated. Recommended."--Choice"Zimmer's archival research is impressive… a fascinating examination of the interplay of individuals of various ethnicities… involved with anarchism and its sympathizers in San Francisco."--International Review of Social History"Well researched and eloquent."--Jewish Book Council"This is likely to be an essential work on immigrant anarchism for years to come."--H-Net Reviews"Drawing on an impressive and unprecedented array of Yiddish- and Italian-language sources, Zimmer details both the ideological connections and ethnocultural obstacles that supported and separated anarchist communities. . . . Zimmer's research and scope is encyclopedic. . . . Zimmer's fine book is indispensable."--The Journal of American History"Immigrants against the State breaks new ground in anarchist history and offers a timely contribution to the knowledge of immigrant radicalism, past and present. It is essential reading for students and scholars of radical and immigration history, and for anyone interested in exploring immigrant lives marked by a transnational collective identity that embraced diversity regardless of the national, ethnic and racial divides.--Labour History"A vitally important transnational work that makes significant interventions into the historiography of immigration, anarchism, labor and the working class, and late-nineteenth to early twentieth-century politics."--American Historical Review "An extraordinarily well-documented and stimulating read."--Italian American Review "A beautiful, exceptionally well-researched work of transnational history."--Canadian Journal of History "Admirably, the author uses Italian- and Yiddish-language sources to produce one of the most extensive accounts of anarchism in twentieth-century America. One of the best histories of anarchism in the United States."--Tony Michels, author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York "I have been waiting for a book like this for a long time, one that tells of the multiethnic and transnational world of early twentieth-century anarchism, not just from the perspective of the notorious figures, but from the grass roots. Zimmer is both a highly gifted storyteller and a meticulous, careful researcher whose account follows this history through a truly astonishing range of sources in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, German, and English, from archives across the globe. This is the new generation of transnational working-class history at its very best."--Jennifer Guglielmo, author of Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945 "A century ago, anarchists were everywhere, a movement in constant movement. Having mastered the languages of the two largest groups of immigrant anarchists in the United States, Kenyon Zimmer paints intimate portraits of their Yiddish- and Italian-speaking worlds. The book will be required reading for all scholars of immigrant radicalism. More broadly, anyone interested in the complex intersections of class, mobility, and culture in our own times will find much to ponder in the cosmopolitanism and internationalism immigrants created as they responded to the violent nationalist politics of their own times."--Donna R. Gabaccia, author of Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History

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Book SynopsisAn expanded edition of the first practical, nonjudgmental handbook for dealing with microaggressions, featuring examples, sample scripts, action plans, a new discussion and activity guide, and up-to-date suggestions for creating a culture of belonging in the workplace.Overt discrimination is relatively easy to spot. But the less obvious but more common actions that make people feel left out or stigmatized in our workplaces, commonly called microaggressions, can be hard to identify and even harder to deal with.The author use a clearer, more accurate term: subtle acts of exclusion (SAE). After all, people generally aren?t trying to be aggressive?usually they?re trying to say something nice, learn more about a person, or be funny. Bring accused of aggression shuts the conversation down, when you want to open it up.This book features examples, tools, sample scripts, and action plans to help readers prevent subtle acts of aggression from happening, or deal with them when they do. Updated throughout, this second edition features: A greatly expanded chapter on ?intentional acts of inclusion??actions for creating a sense of belonging. A discussion and activity guide ideal for book clubs and training sessions A new concluding chapter, Hope for Humanity Whether in the form of stereotypes, assumptions, backhanded compliments, or objectification, SAEs are damaging to our coworkers, friends, and acquaintances. This book is your friendly, accessible, non-judgemental guide to creating a welcoming workplace.

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Book SynopsisOpinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker ''s history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential questions. Ranging from Canada and the United States to Chile and Argentina, the authors search for common factors in the appearance of labor courts while recognizing the specific character of the creative process in each nation. Their transnational and comparative approach advances a global perspective on the various mechanisms for regulating industrial relations and resolving labor conflicts. The result is the first country-by-country study of its kind, one that addresses a defining shift in law in the first half of the twentieth century. Contributors: Rossana Barragán Romano, Angela de Castro Gomes, David Díaz-Arias, Leon Fink, Frank Luce, Diego Ortúzar, Germán Palacio, Juan Manuel PaTrade Review"This is a fabulous book. As historians and social scientists return to the distributional dimensions of capitalist development, they should look closely at this anthology. It contains insightful studies of national experiences; it also lays out a template for analyzing a central institution in framing class conflict in the modern age: labor courts and the struggle for justice and recognition. This is a wonderful example of connected and comparative history." --Jeremy Adelman, author of Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman"Labor Justice across the Americas can help us to learn from past struggles to think creatively about new ideas for effective labor justice. It is a unique book that deserves to be read by labor historians, legal historians, labor advocates, and quixotic dreamers who want to keep a toe on the ground." --New Labor Forum“An important and necessary first step in assessing the role of the law in twentieth-century capital-labor relations, a valuable contribution greatly enhanced by its comparative focus." --Hispanic American Historical Review"Highly recommended." --Choice"An ambitious transnational project developed around a specialized body of knowledge, this volume has many great strengths. This book artfully presents side-by-side national histories within their hemispheric context and points us toward a sophisticated neo-Boltonian hemispheric labor history founded on deeply researched national case studies." --Labor

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Book SynopsisA practitioner's handbook that integrates knowledge, competencies, methodologies and applications across the discipline. Can improve the effectiveness of organizational and individual Risk Management practices by documenting and integrating best-practice concepts from a range of complementary disciplines.Table of ContentsPREFACE xiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv ABOUT SRMBOK xvii 1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 1 1.1 Why SRMBOK? 1 1.2 Where Do We Go from Here? 3 1.3 What is Security Risk Management? 4 1.4 How does SRM Relate to Risk Management? 11 1.5 Conclusion, 14 2 SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT CONTEXT 15 2.1 The Changing Security Environment, 15 2.2 Changing Concepts in Security Risk Management, 16 2.3 Origins of Security and Risk Management, 18 2.4 Trends and Future Directions, 18 2.5 Globalization, Opportunity, and Volatility, 19 2.6 Transnational and Extrajurisdictional Risks, 20 2.7 Law, Regulatory Framework, and Ramifications for Management, 21 2.8 Diversification or Concentration? 22 2.9 Political Awareness, 23 2.10 Risk versus Reward, 24 2.11 Summary of Key Points, 24 3 SECURITY GOVERNANCE 27 3.1 Introduction, 27 3.2 What Is Security Governance? 28 3.3 Duty of Care, 28 3.4 Resilience, 30 3.5 Security Culture, 37 3.6 Governance Frameworks, 38 3.7 Incident Management and Reporting, 41 3.8 Summary of Key Points, 42 4 SRMBOK FRAMEWORK 43 4.1 SRMBOK Guiding Principles, 46 5 PRACTICE AREAS 53 5.1 Introduction, 53 5.2 Security Management, 56 5.3 Physical Security, 59 5.4 People Security, 63 5.5 ICT Security, 77 5.6 Information Security, 81 6 STRATEGIC KNOWLEDGE AREAS 97 6.1 Introduction, 97 6.2 Exposure, 105 6.3 Risk, 130 6.4 Resources, 166 6.5 Quality, 172 7 OPERATIONAL COMPETENCY AREAS 195 7.1 Business Integration, 195 7.2 Functional Design, 202 7.3 Implementation Management, 204 7.4 Assurance and Audit, 211 8 ACTIVITY AREAS 219 8.1 Introduction, 219 8.2 Intelligence, 224 8.3 Protective Security, 230 8.4 Response, 231 8.5 Recovery and Continuity, 242 8.6 Summary of Key Points, 253 9 SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT ENABLERS 255 9.1 Introduction, 255 9.2 Summary of Key Points, 259 10 ASSET AREAS 261 10.1 What Is an Asset? 261 10.2 Key Asset Groups, 264 11 SRM INTEGRATION 269 11.1 SRM Integration with Enterprise Risk Management, 273 11.2 ERM Frameworks, 274 11.3 Implementing an Integrated ERM Program, 276 11.4 Summary of Key Points, 282 12 SRM LEXICON 285 12.1 Introduction, 285 12.2 Illustrations, 286 12.3 Notes to Readers, 289 12.4 Definitions, 290 13 SAMPLE TEMPLATES 339 13.1 Security Risk Register form (Example 1), 340 13.2 Security Risk Register form (Example 2), 340 13.3 Risk Treatment Schedule (Example 1), 341 13.4 Risk Treatment Schedule (Example 2), 341 13.5 Outline Security Plan, 342 13.6 Day-to-Day Operational Governance Registers, 343 13.7 Property Selection and Security Planning Checklist, 349 13.8 Sample Commitment Statement to Security and Risk Management, 361 13.9 Sample Bomb Threat Checklist, 362 13.10 Sample Bomb Threat Room Search Checklist, 364 13.11 Evaluation Criteria for Business Continuity and Organizational Resilience, 365 14 ABOUT THE LEAD AUTHORS 417 14.1 Julian Talbot, CPP, 417 14.2 Dr Miles Jakeman, 418 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND OTHER REFERENCES 419 INDEX 427

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Book SynopsisThe 2nd edition provides an update of information since the publication of the first edition including best practices for managing process safety developed by industry as well as incorporate the additional process safety elements. In addition the book includes a focus on maintaining and improving a Process Safety Management (PSM) System. This 2nd edition also provides how to information to determine process safety performance status, implement one or more new elements into an existing PSM system, maintain or improve an existing PSM system, and manage future process safety performance.Table of ContentsFiles on the Web Accompanying this Book xi List of Figures xiii List of Tables xv Acronyms and Abbreviations xvii Glossary xxi Acknowledgments xlix Preface li 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Overview 1 1.2 Background/History of PSM 5 1.3 Process Safety Resources 7 1.4 PSM Implementation Lessons 11 1.5 The Business Case for Process Safety 12 1.6 Importance of Integrating PSM with Business Systems 14 1.7 Intended Audience and How to Use These Guidelines 16 1.8 References 18 2 EVALUATING PSM SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION AND PERFORMANCE 19 2.1 The Modified Safety Triangle 19 2.2 Common Indicators at Each Level of the Triangle 21 2.3 Process Stages in the Company/Facility Life Cycle 22 2.4 Documenting Conclusions 31 2.5 References 35 3 PREPARING FOR PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT CHANGE 37 3.1 Securing Management Commitment 37 3.2 Establishing a Culture for Change 44 3.3 References 48 4 IMPLEMENTING A NEW PSM SYSTEM 49 4.1 Develop the Design Specification for the PSM System 49 4.2. Create Element and System Workflows 67 4.3 Estimate the Workloads and Resources 76 4.4 Develop Written Programs/Procedures 87 4.5 Roll Out the Elements and System 98 4.6 Monitor the PSM System's Implementation, Initial Performance, and Progress 113 4.7 References 115 5 INTEGRATING NEW ELEMENTS INTO AN EXISTING PSM SYSTEM 117 5.1 Developing a New Element 117 5.2 Integrating New Element Activities into Existing Elements 118 5.3 Implementing New RBPS Elements 118 5.4 Monitoring New Elements or Activities 133 5.5 References 134 6 IMPROVING AN EXISTING PSM ELEMENT OR SYSTEM 137 6.1 Determining Which Elements to Improve 137 6.2 Assessing the Program and Determining the Root Causes of Poor Performance 142 6.3 Improving the PSM Program 159 6.4 Developing the Solution for an Element or System 162 6.5 Monitoring Improvement of an Element or System 163 6.6 References 166 7 INTEGRATING PSM/HSE WITH A BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 167 7.1 Values and Policy Interfaces/Conflicts with Business Enterprise 168 7.2 Types of BMS Activities 168 7.3 Company and Regional Politics 179 7.4 Workflows/Processes of Existing BMS 179 7.5 Planned Changes to Existing BMS 179 7.6 Interfaces with Existing BMS 179 7.7 Resolving BMS Conflicts 179 7.8 References 180 8 MANAGING FUTURE PROCESS SAFETY PERFORMANCE 181 8.1 Ensure a Robust PSM System 181 8.2 Avoid Past PSM System Failure Modes 183 8.3 Watch for Early Warning Signs 186 8.4 Consider Other Enhancements 188 8.5 References 189 APPENDIX I: GLOBAL PSM REGULATIONS/GOOD INDUSTRY PRACTICES 191 APPENDIX II: ELI LILLY AND COMPANY PSM IMPLEMENTATION CASE STUDY 223 APPENDIX III: RISK BASED PROCESS SAFETY (RBPS)IMPLEMENTATION TOOLS 241 APPENDIX IV: THE BUSINESS CASE FOR PROCESS SAFETY 251 APPENDIX V: EXAMPLE FACILITY RANKING PROCESS 267 APPENDIX VI: EXAMPLE PRESENTATION ON PSM PLAN 271 APPENDIX VII: MAPPING PERFORMANCE ISSUES TO CULTURE FEATURES 275 INDEX 283

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Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Health and Safety Law provides a clear, concise overview of health and safety law in the United Kingdom. With reference to the European Union, this book discusses criminal and civil liability at length to provide a clear understanding of this area of law which has been subject to change over the 20 years. Key case studies and statistical information on prosecutions, fines and enforcement notices help to contextualise health and safety law to provide students and professionals with a full understanding of health and safety law in the UK.This book includes chapters on: the legal framework criminal liability enforcement of criminal liability civil liability civil remedy subordinate legislation. This book is an essential reference for students studying towards NEBOSH qualifications and studenTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1. The Legal Framework, 2. Criminal Liability for Health and Safety, 3. Civil Liability for Negligence and Breach of Statute, 4. Contractual Liability and the Tort of Nuisance, 5. Subordinate Legislation, 6. Enforcement of Criminal Liability, 7. Civil Remedies, 8. Conclusion, Appendix: Key Cases

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Book SynopsisIn Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century.After the depletion of neoliberal reforms at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Argentina, co-operativism gained momentum, mainly due to the recuperation of enterprises by their workers and state promotion of co-operatives through social policies. These new co-operatives became actors not just in production but in social struggle. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they shape a socio-productive form not structured by wage relations: workers are at the same time owners of the firms. Why, how, and by what cleavages and groupings do these co-operative workers without bosses come into conflict?Table of ContentsForeword The Democratisation of ConflictAcknowledgementsList of Figures, Tables and ImagesIntroduction 1 The Question of Work Conflicts in New Co-operatives 2 Dimensions of New Social Conflicts in Co-operative Socio-productive Contexts 3 The Challenge of Comparing Paradigmatic but Non-equivalent Experiences: Studying a Whole That Acts as a Whole 4 The Structure of the Book1  Co-operatives ‘Made in Argentina’ The Process of Enterprise Recuperation by Their Workers 1 The Socio-genesis of the Processes of Enterprise Recuperation 1.1  When Worker Resistance Becomes an Offensive Movement 1.2  The Widespread Crisis of 2001–2002, or Adding Fuel to the Fire 1.3  The Movement of the Flames 2 The Evolution of Enterprise Recuperation Processes 2.1  The Fuel of the Growing Economy Keeps the Flames of Production Moving 2.2  The Moral Economy of Work in the Continued Presence of Enterprise Recuperations 2.3  “Argentina Is One Big, Recuperated Factory”: Public Policies for Recuperated Enterprises 2.4  The Movement’s Fragmentation, Co-operative Convergence and Union Rapprochement2  Incubated Co-operatives Co-operative Formation under the Argentina Works Programme 1 Social Schemes with Work Requirement: From Workfare to the Argentina Works Programme 2 The Mediation of Unemployed Workers’ Organisations: Civil Associations, Productive Units and Co-operatives 3 The Dual Logic of the Argentina Works Programme’s Socio-genesis: Creating Jobs and Co-ordinating Local Politics 4 Induced Co-operatives? The Struggle of Unemployed Workers’ Organisations 4.1  The Evolution of the Argentina Works Programme 4.2  The Intensity and Dynamics of Contentious Action 4.3  The Demands and Forms of Contentious Action3  Keeping and Having a Job A Milestone in Constitutive Conflicts 1 ‘Occupy, Resist, Produce’ … and Have! 2 From ‘Induction’ to the ‘Co-operative without Brokers’ 3 A Comparative Lens on Constitutive Conflicts4  The Recuperated Enterprise and Social Power in Production 1 Recuperators, Activists and the ‘Born and Bred’ 2 Property Relations: Social Possession and Differential Appropriation of the Fruits of Labour 3 The Logic of Production and the Issue of Sustainability in Recuperated Enterprises 4 The Political Dimension: Between Self-management and Delegation 5 Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: Opportunity Hoarding, Enterprise Projects and Work Generations5  The Argentina Works Co-operative and State Power in Production 1 The Labour and Socio-spatial Precarity of Argentina Works Programme Workers 2 Property Relations: Social Possession and Autonomy 3 The Logic of Production: Between Subsistence and Political Accumulation 4 The Political Dimension: State Power and Co-management 5 Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: State Officials, Co-operative Members and Activists6  The Production of Co-operative Conflict 1 Board Removals: Conflicts over the Running and Expansion of the Productive Process 2 Regulations, Sanctions and Exclusions: From ‘Founder Members’ to ‘ Founderer Members’ 3 “We Fought over the River Module”: The Conflict over Autonomous Work 4 Between Subsistence Consumption and Political Accumulation in the Social Organisation 5 A Comparative Lens7  Conclusions 1 The New Twenty-First-Century Co-Operativism and Its Struggles Around Work 2 What Patterns of Conflicts are There without Bosses? Towards a Theory of Unrest in Worker Co-operatives 3 From Prelude to Present: A Toolbox for New Research QuestionsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA persuasive account of the philosophy and power of nonviolence organizing, and a resource for building and sustaining effective social movements. Despite the rich history of nonviolent philosophy, many people today are unfamiliar with the basic principles and practices of nonviolenceeven as these concepts have guided so many direct-action movements to overturn forms of racial apartheid, military and police violence, and dictatorships around the world.Revolutionary Nonviolence is a crucial resource on the long history of nonviolent philosophy through the teachings of Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., one of the great practitioners of revolution through deliberate and sustained nonviolence. His ongoing work demonstrates how we can overcome violence and oppression through organized direct action, presenting a powerful roadmap for a new generation of activists. Rev. Lawson's work as a theologian, pastor, and social-change activist has inspired hope and liberation for more than sixty years.Trade Review"A ‘how to’ guide for the next generation." * Christian Science Monitor *"This book is both easy to read and deeply inspiring. It is among the best introductions to the philosophy of the nonviolent movement. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Rev. Lawson wants us to think big. . . .What he offers...is a huge helping of wisdom. Lawson also offers a method, derived from Gandhi, King, and his own experience in movements for freedom, peace and economic justice." * Fellowship Magazine *Table of ContentsForeword by Angela Davis Preface Introduction to James M. Lawson's Talks, Dialogues, and Interviews Michael K. Honey 1 The Power of Nonviolence in the Fight for Racial Justice 2 Understanding Violence and Nonviolence 3 Steps of a Nonviolent Protest or Movement 4 Examples of Social Change through Nonviolence 5 Where Do We Go from Here? 6 You Have to Do the Truth Part First: A Dialogue between Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. and Bryan Stevenson 7 A Brief Biography of James M. Lawson Jr. Kent Wong Notes Contributing Authors

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDavid Paul Kuhn tells the story in marvellous detail. * Timothy D. Lusch, Chronicles *Riveting. * Jill Lepore, The New Yorker *Engrossing, well-crafted, The Hardhat Riot… argues persuasively that the riot sparked a vast national political shift driven by a widening divide between the working class and the educated elite that has led to the era of the Trump presidency... Kuhn writes with empathy for both sides... Kuhn's accounts of the violence are vivid and raw... The author concludes with a sharp analysis of how the revolt of the White working class almost immediately reshaped American politics, beginning with Nixon's opportunistic claim of blue-collar Whites as "Silent Majority" supporters of his law-and-order presidency. Kuhn shows the reverberations over the decades, right up to the making of Donald Trump's political base... Kuhn argues that class divisions have driven people so far apart that it's as if Americans now live in 'entirely different places, even if they are still called by one name * America.'" The Washington Post Book Review *Perhaps the best book ever on how Democrats lost the white working class. The Hardhat Riot is a great read, but also a must-read to understand the voters that Democrats neglected at their own peril." * James Carville, former Chief Strategist for President Bill Clinton *Over the past 15 years few writers have covered this realignment with the consistency of David Paul Kuhn, whose warnings about the reasons white working people were moving away from the Democrats were largely dismissed by the news media and party elites... Mr. Kuhn remained an unacknowledged prophet... Now he has synthesized his message with a lesson from history: The Hardhat Riot, a riveting account of... [a] clash on the streets of New York [that] came to symbolize the irreconcilable division taking shape in the rest of the country... Mr. Kuhn avoids polemics and judgment, yet leads the reader to understand the deeper questions implicit in so many of today's political debates... The Hardhat Riot insightfully explains why and how this happened. Perhaps the Democratic Party's leaders will finally understand what David Paul Kuhn has been trying to tell them." * Jim Webb, The Wall Street Journal Book Review *The Hardhat Riot, by David Paul Kuhn, vividly evokes... a blue-collar rampage whose effects still ripple, not the least of them being Donald Trump's improbable ascension to the presidency... this is a compelling narrative." * The New York Times Book Review *[An] outstanding new book... through dogged research… combining eyewitness reports with his own gifted storytelling to craft a riveting narrative. In our current intellectual climate, which seems to prize tendentiousness, it is rare to find such a clear-eyed and non-polemical work of history." * National Review *This is red-meat history with a hot splash of tabasco. David Paul Kuhn brings to life a period that is not only fascinating in itself but also illuminates the age of Donald Trump. If you want to understand how blue-collar Americans came to feel so disparaged and deplored, The Hardhat Riot is a great place to start. A truly captivating read." * Robert Guest, Foreign Editor, The Economist *David Paul Kuhn's Hardhat Riot captures a seminal but long-neglected turning point in the steady erosion of Democratic support among the core of the New Deal Coalition. The May 8, 1970, confrontation * AKA, 'Bloody Friday'between anti-war protestors, mostly students, and tough, unionized construction workers determined to demonstrate their support of American troops in Vietnam, marked the start of the split between a well-educated elite and an increasingly discontented working class, a split that overtime produced the election of Donald Trump. This book is crucial for anyone seeking to understand the politics of 2020 and beyond." Thomas B. Edsall, Contributing Opinion Writer, The New York Times *David Paul Kuhn's revealing new book... does two things remarkably well. It reconstructs a detailed, compelling, and coherent narrative of the riot, assembled from what must have seemed a morass of contradictory sources. The book also provides critical context for the riot, documenting the mounting alienation of the white working class from the ascendant New Left, and arguing convincingly for the Hardhat Riot not so much as the day that turned the tide, but as an unmistakable harbinger of political shifts in the offing, a moment when unlikely symbols of Nixon's Silent Majority roared back, giving voice to grievances that persist to this day." * New York Journal of Books *Vivid. * Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic *I picked up David Paul Kuhn's The Hardhat Riot with the intention of skimming and found myself engrossed, reading every page. Well-written, painstakingly researched, this is an important book that gives life to history and explains the divorce between working-class whites and the Democratic Party, and yet rarer still, is also a real pleasure to read." * Charlie Cook, Editor and Publisher of The Cook Political Report *President Trump's reelection bid rests as much as anything on the political loyalty and fealty of his blue-collar base. That they're such a factor in 2020 reflects one of the biggest shifts in American politics over the last half-century-plus. David Paul Kuhn explains why in his important new book . . . As an author, Kuhn was in many ways prescient about the rise of Trump's coalition nearly a decade before it happened . . . Kuhn's latest work explains in elegant and expert fashion how he won so much support among blue-collar white voters in the first place." * Washington Examiner Book Review *Hardhat Riot is an arresting and often chilling narrative of the events that drove a wedge between white working-class voters and the Democratic Party, setting America on the road to today's right-wing populism. I couldn't stop reading it. If you want to understand why cultural issues became central to our politics, read this book." * William Galston, former policy advisor to President Clinton and Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution *Kuhn makes use of masterful, disturbing imagery to capture the clash... his narration is candid... the perspectives of both sides are shared without favoritism * only the facts. The text is fascinating as it traces the political breakdown that became the platform upon which Nixon built a new base... Hardhat Riot is a timely review of a historical event that contains a reminder that class divisions also create opportunities within politics." Foreword Reviews *Trenchant... A welcome resurrection of a forgotten riot with relevance for our current fragmented political landscape." * Kirkus *A gripping history of a moment when two visions of America clashed * with fists flyingthroughout the Wall Street district. The Hardhat Riot excavates conflicts over protest politics, American military power, and the party loyalties of the white working class that remain with us half a century later." Beverly Gage, Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University *Sometimes events that are long forgotten have reverberations that dominate our times. In Hardhat Riot, David Paul Kuhn skillfully shows how the split between traditionally Democratic constituencies * blue collar workers and militant studentseerily foreshadows the bitter political splits of our time." Michael Barone, author of The Almanac of American Politics and Emeritus Fellow, American Enterprise Institute *David Paul Kuhn has breathed new life into an uproarious seminal event in modern political history, skillfully tracing fault lines running from the late 1960s up to the present. A timely, smart, adrenalin-fueled account conveyed with you-are-there immediacy." * Laurence Bergreen, author of Over the Edge of the World *David Paul Kuhn details, with much new research, the changing political conditions before and after the spring of 1970, when Nixon saw the opportunity after the May 8 Hardhat Riot. No previous book has so convincingly documented how important this single event was in changing the class base of both the Republican and Democratic parties." * Joan Hoff, former president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency *It's about how elitist politicians left white, blue-collar workers feeling sold out. It's about how those lifelong Democrats * mostly Catholic, ethnic, unionbegan looking for a new home in the Republican Party. And it's about how that day changed American politics, perhaps forever. Kuhn has written a lot about the white working class, and he writes about the '60s here from its anguished perspective. Blue-collar workers saw liberal legislators as snobby, spoiled young radicals. The workers felt demeaned, even demonized. Finally, they demanded their own revolution." New York Daily News Book Review *Largely through the microcosm of New York City, David Paul Kuhn's The Hardhat Riot delves deeply into the estrangement of the Democratic Party from America's blue-collar workers. For all of its fascinating detail of the travails of America's metropolis, The Hardhat Riot also offers a broad and rich panorama of American politics of the past 50 years and the most persuasive explanation for the rise of Donald Trump that has yet appeared." * Ross K. Baker, Professor of American Government, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsPART ONE: Backdrop Chapter One: 'Out for Blood' Chapter Two: The Revolutionaries of Grand Central and Columbia Chapter Three: Chicago '68 Chapter Four: Two Moratorium Days Chapter Five: 'Law and Order' and the Decline of Cities Chapter Six: Consequences, 'Law and Order' and the Decline of Cities Chapter Seven: Blue-Collar Whites Are 'Rediscovered' (in Middle American Gotham) Chapter Eight: Those Who Did the Fighting and Dying Chapter Nine: The New Left and the 'Great Test for Liberals' Chapter Ten: Building the Twin Towers, Ethnic New York, and Race Chapter Eleven: Cambodia and Kent State Chapter Twelve: Kent State in New York PART TWO: 'Bloody Friday' Chapter Thirteen: 'U-S-A. All the way!' Chapter Fourteen: Melee Chapter Fifteen: 'About Time the Silent Majority Made Some Noise' Chapter Sixteen: Violence Becomes 'Contagious' Chapter Seventeen: 'We've Lost Control!' Chapter Eighteen: The Riot Spreads Chapter Nineteen: 'I'm Not Having City Hall Taken Over on My Watch' Chapter Twenty: Full Circle to Federal Hall PART THREE: AFTERWARD AND AFTERMATH Chapter Twenty-One: The Days After: Knicks Utopia, a Fraught City, and Nixon at the Brink Chapter Twenty-Two: The Riot Reverberates Chapter Twenty- Three: 'Workers' Woodstock' Chapter Twenty-Four: 'Our People Now,' Nixon Sees an Un-Silent Majority Chapter Twenty-Five: Honor America day Chapter Twenty-Six: 'Born with a Potmetal Spoon,' on Nixon's Blue-Collar Strategy Chapter Twenty-Seven: How America(s) Saw It Chapter Twenty-Eight: The End of the Beginning

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. The atom and nuclear radiation 2. Interactions of neutrons with matter 3. Nuclear reactors 4. Mathematical foundations 5. The neutron diffusion equation 6. The neutron transport equation 7. The Monte Carlo method 8. Computer codes 9. Optimization and variational methods 10. Monte Carlo simulation in nuclear systems 11. Comparison: mc vs deterministic 12. Exercises in Monte Carlo simulation 13. Optimization in nuclear systems 14. Monte Carlo simulation in medical physics

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Book SynopsisThe publication provides process automation engineers, process engineers, facility operators, and safety professionals with the appropriate treatment and requirements applicable to equipment design, administrative procedures, or other credits that are treated as an independent protection layer from a Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) perspective.Table of ContentsList of Data Tables xi Acronyms and Abbreviations xv Glossary xix Acknowledgments xxv Preface xxix Introduction 1 1.1 Audience 2 1.2 Scope 3 1.3 Key Changes Since the Initial LOPA Concept Book 4 1.4 Recap of LOPA 6 1.5 Disclaimer 10 1.6 Linkage to Other CCPS Publications 11 1.7 Annotated Description of Chapters 13 Overview: Initiating Events and Independent Protection Layers 16 2.1 LOPA Elements: An Overview 16 2.2 Management Systems to Support LOPA 16 2.3 Scenario Selection 18 2.4 Overview of Scenario Frequency 20 2.5 Overview of Consequences 28 2.6 Risk Considerations 29 2.7 Conclusions 31 Core Attributes 34 3.1 Introduction to Core Attributes 34 3.2 Independence 35 3.3 Functionality 40 3.4 Integrity 47 3.5 Reliability 49 3.6 Auditability 52 3.7 Access Security 53 3.8 Management of Change 54 3.9 Use of Data Tables 55 Example Initiating Events and IE Frequencies 58 4.1 Overview of Initiating Events 58 4.2 Inherently Safer Design and Initiating Event Frequency 59 4.3 Specific Initiating Events for Use in LOPA 60 4.4 External Events 113 4.5 What if Your Candidate Initiating Event is Not Shown in a Data Table? 113 Example IPLs and PFD Values 116 5.1 Overview of Independent Protection Layers (IPLs) 116 5.2 Specific Independent Protection Layers for Use in LOPA 118 5.3 What if Your Candidate IPL is Not Shown in a Data Table? 263 Advanced LOPA Topics 268 6.1 Purpose 268 6.2 Use of QRA Methods Relative to LOPA 269 6.3 Evaluation of Complex Mitigative IPLs 275 6.4 Conclusions 277 Appendices 280 Appendix A: Human Factors Considerations 282 Appendix B: Site-Specific Human Performance Data Collection and Validation 300 Appendix C: Site-Specific Equipment Data Collection and Validation 310 Appendix D: Example Reliability Data Conversion for Check Valves 324 Appendix E: Considerations for Overpressure of Pressure Vessels and Piping 328 REFERENCES 334 INDEX 342

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Book Synopsis“When I went to work for Lockheed-Georgia Company in September of 1952 I had no idea that this would end up being my life's work."" With these words, Harry Hudson, the first African American supervisor at Lockheed's Georgia facility, begins his account of a thirty-six-year career that spanned the postwar civil rights movement and the Cold War.

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Book SynopsisExplains in detail how to perform the most commonly used hazard analysis techniques with numerous examples of practical applications Includes new chapters on Concepts of Hazard Recognition, Environmental Hazard Analysis, Process Hazard Analysis, Test Hazard Analysis, and Job Hazard Analysis Updated text covers introduction, theory, and detailed description of many different hazard analysis techniques and explains in detail how to perform them as well as when and why to use each technique Describes the components of a hazard and how to recognize them during an analysis Contains detailed examples that apply the methodology to everyday problems Table of ContentsPREFACE xxi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxiii 1. System Safety and Hazard Analysis 1 2. Systems 10 3. Hazards, Mishap, and Risk 28 4. Hazard Analysis Features 45 5. Hazard Recognition and Management 69 6. Functional Hazard Analysis 93 7. Preliminary Hazard List Analysis 109 8. Preliminary Hazard Analysis 125 9. Subsystem Hazard Analysis 145 10. System Hazard Analysis 164 11. Operating and Support Hazard Analysis 177 12. Health Hazard Analysis 199 13. Requirements Hazard Analysis 212 14. Environmental Hazard Analysis (EHA) 224 15. Fault Tree Analysis 240 16. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis 278 17. Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Analysis 300 18. Event Tree Analysis (ETA) 316 19. Cause—Consequence Analysis 327 20. Common Cause Failure Analysis 339 21. Software Hazard Analysis 363 22. Process Hazard Analysis 381 23. Test Hazard Analysis 390 24. Fault Hazard Analysis 406 25. Sneak Circuit Analysis 416 26. Markov Analysis 430 27. Petri Net Analysis 446 28. Barrier Analysis 456 29. Bent Pin Analysis 471 30. Management Oversight Risk Tree Analysis 483 31. Job Hazard Analysis 490 32. Threat Hazard Analysis 506 33. System of Systems Hazard Analysis 520 34. Summary 537 Appendix A List of Acronyms 549 Appendix B Glossary 552 Appendix C Hazard Checklists 567 Appendix D References 609 Index 613

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Environmental Health and Housing has been completely updated to cover the contemporary issues in public health that have emerged in recent years. With a theory and practice approach to public health, this edition focuses more on population health, health protection and improvement, and inter-agency approaches to effective intervention in housing and health through evidence-based practice. It provides the ideal introduction to the area, covering policy and strategy in housing, housing and inequality, housing inclusion, and the public health agenda. It provides a renewed focus on research into evidence-based housing and health issues, which have become subjects of growing international interest in recent years. This edition includes more case studies, reflection, and a greater emphasis on wider living environments. It also includes major pieces of new legislation, most notably the Housing Act 2004 and the Housing and Planning Act 2016, as well as related regulations.Trade Review"The book is an easy read, but retains academic robustness. It covers a wide housing and health-related subject matter. It is a great source of reference material and provides some good strategic and historical oversight. The authors have had a challenging task, given the need to balance having sufficient content with not repeating other reference sources... Case studies bring a reality to the hard work and innovative practice taking place, and illustrate the art of the profession, which is the ability to be able to assess cause and effect and ensure resources are channelled in the direction of reducing the impact of cause... It highlights for me how important it is to maintain the profile and share good practice at every opportunity. I am sure that many colleagues will read the book and shout out loud, 'We do that' - but the difficulty comes with finding the time to provide evidence that can be scrutinised and to capture your work." Dave Arkle, Environmental Health News, June 2018 "Using an intersectoral lens, the publication reinforces the importance of an interagency approach that includes health protection and other social, municipal and health professions. Case studies are also incorporated, as well as a review of regulations and legislation that impact housing-related issues in the United Kingdom. This book can be useful to students and both emerging and mature professionals to inform public interventions on housing and health." National Collaborating Centre on the Determinants of Health "Environmental Health and Housing is well documented and researched with detailed references throughout and includes extensive acknowledgements...This book is excellent for updating an experienced EHP. It is invaluable for the student to understand why housing is so important and how the EHP and their professional colleagues can contribute to improving people’s experience of house and home... Jill Stewart and Zena Lynch have produced an outstanding contribution to the environmental health profession." Tim Deveaux, independent environmental health practitioner and authorTable of ContentsChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Why environmental health, public health and housing?Chapter 3 Gathering evidenceChapter 4 Legislation for healthier and safer housingChapter 5 Working more effectively togetherChapter 6 ConclusionsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis revised edition of Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice follows the approach established successfully in preceding volumes edited by Paul Edwards. The focus is on Britain after a decade of public policy which has once again altered the terrain on which employment relations develop. Government has attempted to balance flexibility with fairness, preserving light-touch regulation whilst introducing rights to minimum wages and to employee representation in the workplace. Yet this is an open economy, conditioned significantly by developing patterns of international trade and by European Union policy initiatives. This interaction of domestic and cross-national influences in analysis of changes in employment relations runs throughout the volume. The structure has been amended slightly. Britain is placed straight away in comparative perspective before attention focuses explicitly on employment relations actors, contexts, processes, and outcomes. Each of the chapters is wriTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. List of Common Abbreviations. List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction. 1 Work, the Employment Relationship and the Field of Industrial Relations (Trevor Colling and Michael Terry). Section One British Industrial Relations in Comparative Context. 2 British Industrial Relations: Between Security and Flexibility (Colin Crouch). 3 British Industrial Relations: The European Dimension (Richard Hyman). Section Two Actors. 4 Management: Caught Between Competing Views of the Organization (Keith Sisson and John Purcell). 5 State, Capital and Labour Relations in Crisis (Jason Heyes and Peter Nolan). 6 Trade Unions: Power and Infl uence in a Changed Context (Melanie Simms and Andy Charlwood). Section Three Contexts. 7 Public Sector Industrial Relations: The Challenge of Modernization (Stephen Bach). 8 Industrial Relations in the Private Sector (James Arrowsmith). 9 Multinational Companies: Transforming National Industrial Relations? (Paul Marginson and Guglielmo Meardi). 10 Industrial Relations in Small Firms (Monder Ram and Paul Edwards). Section Four Processes. 11 Negotiation and Collective Bargaining (William Brown). 12 Employee Representation (Michael Terry). 13 The Changing Legal Framework of Employment Relations (Linda Dickens and Mark Hall). 14 Legal Institutions and the Regulation of Workplaces (Trevor Colling). Section Five Outcomes. 15 Pay and Working Time: Shifting Contours of the Employment Relationship (Damien Grimshaw and Jill Rubery). 16 Industrial Relations and Economic Performance (Paul Edwards and Sukanya Sengupta). 17 Skills Policy and the Displacement of Industrial Relations: The Elephant in the Corner? (Ewart Keep, Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne). 18 Equality and Diversity: The Ultimate Industrial Relations Concern (Deborah Dean and Sonia Liff). Index.

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Book SynopsisShortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in different neighborhoods throughout the city: syphillis treatment among African Americans, tuberculosis for Italian Americans, and so on. It was a challenging and ambitious program, dangerous for the providers, and troublingly reductive for the patients. Nevertheless, poor and working-class African American, British West Indian, and Southern Italian women all received some of the nation's best health care during this period. Health in the City challenges traditional ideas of early twentieth-century urban black health care by showing a program that was simultaneously racialized and cutting-edge. It reveals that even the most well-meaning public health programs may inadvertently reinforce perceptions of inferiority that they were created to fix.Trade ReviewUtilizing a rich array of health records and medical documents from nurses, physicians, and social workers, Tanya Hart provides a critical analysis of health care in New York City from 1915 to 1930. * American Historical Review *At the turn of the twentieth century, black and white women migrated to New York City, a new place and environment swirling with ideas and practices of race, racism, germ theory and sanitation. Health in the City tells us the very human story of how pioneering, yet racialized health care thinking and services complicated the meaning of these womens motherhood as well as their own health and welfare. Harts discovery and analysis of previously untapped archival records, offers an important narrative and reveals a remarkable mastery of historical methods that are a model of interdisciplinary sociohistorical research. -- Jennifer Hamer,University of KansasIn its rigorous and interdisciplinary examination of the intersections of gender, maternalist health politics, and ethnicity, Health in the City makes an impressive and appreciable contribution to a robust field. Drawing on historical, literary, and social scientific methods, Tanya Hart gives us the entire landscape of health, including vocational opportunity, nutritional concerns, housing, tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, child health, and the social inequalities which influenced all. Moving throughout this landscape we find physicians, health officials, midwives, social workers and charity agents, and, most importantly, the African-American, West Indian, and Italian women who sought not only health, but medical citizenship. -- Samuel Roberts,Columbia UniversityThis original and provocative volume reflects the authors admirable mastery of historical archival research, combined with an artful command of works in literary and culture studies. . . . Health in the City is a richly textured, well-researched, persuasively argued, and engagingly written text. -- Darlene Clark Hine,Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern UniversityHarts book offers important insights into the gendered and racialized notions of health and citizenship that animated public health programs in the early decades of the twentieth century and the attitudes and beliefs of the women who experienced these efforts. * Journal of the History of Medicine and Science *[] Harts book offers important insights into the gendered and racialized notions of health and citizenship that animated public health programs in the early decades of the twentieth century and the attitudes and beliefs of the women who experienced these efforts. * Journal of the History of Medicine *Drawing on the associations archival papers, Hart exposes gaps between published and unpublished data, and she provides valuable close analysis of the public work and private debates of a charitable organization working at the intersection of statistics, public policy, and health care. * Journal of American History *In illuminating the delivery of (and response to) racialized and culturally insensitive health care to women in two immigrant communities in New York City,Health in the Cityadds to a growing literature on the history of health and medicine. * Social History of Medicine *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Migration and the City 15 2. Professionalization in the City 64 3. Work in the City 85 4. Culture in the City 108 5. Birthing in the City: Columbus Hill 138 6. Health in Columbus Hill 162 7. Birthing in the City: The Mulberry District 188 8. Health in the Mulberry District 218 Notes 245 Bibliography 291 Index 315 About the Author 329

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Book SynopsisA global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities—among the most vulnerable to but also least responsible for the climate crisis—have long been at the forefront of the fight to protect imperiled worlds. Today, as the world’s forests burn and our oceans acidify, grassroots movements are tenaciously defending the environmental commons and forging just and sustainable ways of living on Earth. Scholar and activist Ashley Dawson constructs a gripping narrative of these movements of climate insurgents, from international solidarity organizations like La Via Campesina and Shack Dwellers International to local struggles in South Africa, Colombia, India, Nigeria, and beyond. Taking up the four critical challenges we face in a warming world—food, urban sustainability, energy transition, and conservation—Dawson shows how the unruly power of environmentalism from below is charting an alternative path forward, from challenging industrial agriculture through fights for food sovereignty and agroecology to resisting extractivism using mass nonviolent protest and sabotage. An urgent, essential intervention, Environmentalism from Below offers a hopeful alternative to the gridlock of UN-based climate negotiations and the narrow nationalism of some Green New Deal efforts. As Dawson reminds us, the fight against ecocide is already being waged worldwide. Building on longstanding traditions of anticolonial struggle, environmentalism from below is a model for a people’s movement for climate justice—one that demands solidarity.Trade Review"A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Scholar and activist Ashley Dawson constructs a gripping narrative of these movements of climate insurgents, from international solidarity organisations like La Via Campesina and Shack Dwellers International to local struggles in South Africa, Colombia, India, Nigeria and beyond. Building on longstanding traditions of anticolonial struggle, Environmentalism from Below is a model for a people’s movement for climate justice — one that demands solidarity." —Green Left "Ashley Dawson takes us on a wondrous tour of communities working for life after capitalism. These grassroots ecologies are so potent, and their promise so profound, they’ve elicited lethal violence from the state and private sector. For that reason Environmentalism from Below is also an atlas of the world's most important global struggles." —Raj Patel, Research Professor, University of Texas at Austin "True to its aim, this book celebrates ideas and actions that come from below. It is a book that deserves to be celebrated as it presents clear evidence of active organizing, and resistance by climate victims, and the dispossessed against manifestations of neocolonial and oppressive policies and actions. Environmentalism from Below is a book that fossil fuel tycoons and other purveyors of fictional environmental optimism will hate." —Nnimmo Bassey, author of To Cook a Continent - Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa "Though debates rage on the climate left about what language or strategy ought to be taken in order to confront the climate crisis, those involved in such conversations frequently seem to have their minds in the clouds and no grounded connection to existing class struggles. Dawson stands these critics on their head by foregrounding the wildly diverse, actually-existing, and ineluctably global people's movements for climate justice. In these scattered movements of urban squatters, migrants, industrial workers, peasant farmers, feminists, and Indigenous nations, one finds more comprehensive strategies for confronting imperialism and capitalism; which are the roots of environmental crises. Environmentalism From Below is a readable, practical and inspiring guide to building ecological counterpower." —Kai Bosworth, author of Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century "Environmentalism from Below offers a politically erudite and passionate cacophony of momentum drawing from the world’s variegated yet articulated grassroots, all attempting in solidarity to upend the transgression of key planetary ecological relations. Deploying an intersectional form of analysis and mobilization, the book powerfully examines the interplay among how food is produced, cities inhabited, space enclosed, and energy generated in an effort to abolish the debilitating indebtedness of the majority to capital’s voracious calculations and their entrapment amidst borders. The book embodies the exigencies for the synergies of multiple movements underway—of people, affordances, collective capacities, rights, and resources—toward more just dispositions and the prospect of attaining a livable world." —AbdouMaliq Simone "Ashley Dawson's book focuses on environmentalism from below and enlightens us on all those central issues such as the food model, agroecology, the debates on the just energy transition, the question of the sustainability of life in big cities, and climate debt. Written with commitment and elegance, an indispensable book for understanding the re-existence process and the organizational fabric, especially in the global south." —Maristella Svampa, Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact from the South "On a global scale humankind faces multiple existential crises as a result of climate change and the systematic environmental degradation that has brought us collectively to the brink. Populations in the global south are most at risk, owing to decades of austerity measures imposed on peasant and indigenous communities by the cruel alliances of neocolonial and neoliberal authoritarian governments, transnational corporations, and a~ host of multilateral NGO's. Ashley Dawson reframes these grim realities to instead emphasize how grassroots communities proactively resist the privatization and toxic exploitation of the natural world in innovative and empowering ways. Altogether, their examples stand as roadmaps for what many more of us will likely face in coming years." —Dina Gilio-Whitaker "Environmentalism from Below brims with fresh insights and new approaches to some of the most vexing issue of our time. In lucid, passionate prose, Ashley Dawson charts the global alliances forged from below against unregulated plunder and ecocide. Few scholars can match Dawson’s vast transnational experience as an environmental scholar-activist. His global yet textured understanding of resistance movements from Bolivia, South Africa, India, Brazil, the U.S. and far beyond makes this a profound contribution to our understanding of how common struggles are forged. Environmentalism from Below is sure to become a staple in the environmental classroom as well as a guiding light for activists." —Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor "Environmentalism from Below is a much-needed and important book. In it, Dawson goes beyond narrow and technocratic imaginaries rooted in the nation-state, but also takes us past abstract romantic appeals to clearly trace the emancipatory potentials of global peoples' environmental movements. Carefully researched and accessibly written, the book connects food, cities, energy, conservation, debt and borders in a narrative that manages to be both a sharp wake-up call and an optimistic assessment of what our common liberation can look like. This book is a must-read for anyone who feels there must be more to environmental justice than climate accords." —Gianpaolo Baiocchi Praise for Extinction: “An elegant, controversial thesis” —The Guardian “A welcome contribution to the growing literature on this slow-motion calamity.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Dawson's searing report on species loss will sober up anyone who has drunk the Kool-Aid of green capitalism.” —Andrew Ross “Fusing social and ecological challenges to power is the only way forward … a long-awaited, elegant and comprehensive expression of why the time is right to make these links." —Patrick Bond “A great tool for anti-capitalists, climate change activists, and those still making sense of the intrinsic connections between the two." —Jasbir Puar “Historically grounded, densely researched, fluidly written … a powerful and painful exploration of human civilization's environmental irrationalities.” —Christian Parenti Praise for People’s Power: “For anyone wanting to understand what comes after oil and how we might get there.” —Imre Szeman, author of On Petrocultures “A gift to activists, providing a clear and accessible history of energy as well as a vision towards the publicly owned, democratically controlled, 100% renewable world we need.” —Aaron Eisenberg, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation “A brilliant guide to building collective, equitable, and radical energy democracies in the here and now.” —Lavinia Steinfort, Transnational Institute Praise for Extreme Cities: Named One of the Top 10 Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Planetizen “Extreme Cities is a ground-breaking investigation of the vulnerability of our cities in an age of climate chaos. We feel safe and protected in the middle of our great urban areas, but as Sandy and Katrina made clear, and as this fine book reveals anew, the massive shifts on our earth increasingly lay bare the social inequalities that fracture our civilization.”—Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org

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Book SynopsisArt has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement. Songs, stories, poems, pamphlets, and comics, have inspired workers to take action against greedy bosses and helped shape ideas of a more equal world. They also help fan the flames of discontent. Radical social change doesn''t come without radical art. It would be impossible to think about labour unrest without its iconic songs like "Solidarity Forever" or its cartoons like Ernest Riebe''s creation, Mr. Block.In this vein, The Graphic History Collective has created an illustrated chronicle of the strike—the organized withdrawal of labour power—in Canada. For centuries, workers in Canada—Indigenous and non-Indigenous, union and non-union, men and women—have used the strike as a powerful tool, not just for better wages, but also for growing working-class power. This lively comic book will inspire new generations to learn more about labour and working-class history and the power of solidarity.

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Book SynopsisThis fourth edition of Building a Better World offers a comprehensive introductory overview of Canada's labour movement. The book explores why workers form unions; assesses their organization and democratic potential; examines issues related to collective bargaining, grievances and strike activity; charts the historical development of labour unions; and describes the gains unions have achieved for their members and all working people. This new and expanded edition also analyzes the challenges facing today's labour movement as a result of COVID-19 and the strategies being developed to overcome them.

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Book SynopsisIn addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coalminers' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundreds of communities, battled to prevent the decimation of the coal industry on which their livelihoods and communities depended. Margaret Thatcher's government aimed to smash the most militant section of the British working class. She wanted to usher in a new era of greater management control at work and pave the way for a radical refashioning of society in favour of neo-liberal objectives that three decades later have crippled the world economy. Victory required draconian restrictions on picketing and the development of a militarised national police force that made widespread arrests as part of its criminalisation policy. The attacks on the miners also involved the use of the courts and anti-trade union laws, restrictions on welfare benefits, the secret financing by industrialists of working miners and the involvement of the security services. All of which was supported by a compliant mass media but resisted by the collective courage of miners and mining communities in which the role of Women against Pit Closures in combating poverty and starvation was heroic. Thus inspired by the struggle for jobs and communities an unparalleled movement of support groups right across Britain and in other parts of the world was born and helped bring about a situation where the miners long struggle came close on occasions to winning. At the heart of the conflict was the Yorkshire region, where even at the end in March 1985, 83 per cent of 56,000 miners were still out on strike. The official Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) area photographer in 1984-85 was the late Martin Jenkinson and this book of his photographs - some never previously seen before - serves as a unique social document on the dispute that changed the face of Britain.

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Book SynopsisThere is a big hole in the history of the LGBT movement in Britain. Each step towards equality for LGBT people, every positive move in public opinion, was the result of campaigning. But while individuals and lobby groups loudly promote their role in the victories, one major player has been written out of this history: the unions. This book fills the gap. From the first strike action organised by trade union members to save the job of a victimised gay colleague in the 1970s, through the mutual solidarity of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, to the Trades Union Congress taking the initiative to save London Pride in 2012, and much more, trade unions have contributed immensely to the successes achieved, all the while protecting jobs and securing equality for thousands of LGBT working people. Peter Purton was the TUC’s first LGBT officer. His book, of interest to everyone interested in equality and trade union history, reveals how LGBT trade union members organised to win recognition, then support, and how trade unions supported the struggles of LGBT communities in Britain and across the world. This is an inspiring tale, and in the dangerous world of the twenty-first century, it is a warning call to the LGBT community and those supporting it, to wake up to new threats, to remember how past victories were achieved. The labour movement has much potential as an active participant in the unfinished fight for equality, but this book shows the need for mutual engagement to make change possible.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements and bibliographical references A note on language Foreword, Frances O’Grady Foreword, Maria Exall Introduction: Champions of Equality 1. Early interactions with the labour movement 2. Coming together in the 1970s 3. Breakthrough: the early 1980s 4. Old and new issues, continued progress and laying firm foundations 5. Trade union champions of equality 6. Global outreach 7. LGBT+, trade unions, and new challenges Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume highlights cascading effects of the pandemic and lockdown on informal economies of varied countries in the Global South. Uneven development after colonization, imperialism, and externally influenced conflict have caused many countries in the formally colonized or semi-occupied countries in the world to lag behind in wealth accumulation, investments in manufacturing, and technology. The fact that these countries were dragged into world market dynamics on an equal footing with already developed countries exacerbated these inequalities and saw the rapid burgeoning of informal economies. COVID-19 and the lockdown of western countries unravelled global production chains, resulting in hordes of workers in the Global South losing their livelihoods. Even people engaged in traditionally locally-bound economic activities, such as domestic work and sex work, found their livelihoods disappear. This volume brings together case studies from India, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to analyze global economic disruptions as they affected informal sector workers who were already largely invisible within state development policies. The chapters question whether existing models of neoliberal development are still conducive within the post-pandemic Global South as it grapples with rebuilding economies, livelihoods, institutions, and systems of governance. Table of Contents​Ch 1: IntroductionCh 2: Women Construction Workers and Human Security under Covid 19Ch 3: Health Securitization and Sexually Precarious Labor in India under Covid 19Ch 4: International Migration in India under Covid-19Ch 5: Occupational Health and Accountability for Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers under Covid 19Ch 6: The Bangladeshi Garments Industry and Covid 19Ch 7: Working Conditions and labor at Wal-Mart Brazil under Covid 19Ch 8: Shock Responsive Social Protection Schemes for Vulnerable Communities in NE India during Covid 19Ch 9: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States’ acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary between domestic and foreign--and between nation and empire. William D. Riddell looks at the experiences of merchant sailors and labor organizations to illuminate how domestic class conflict influenced America’s emerging imperial system. Maritime workers crossed ever-shifting boundaries that forced them to reckon with the collision of different labor systems and markets. Formed into labor organizations like the Sailor’s Union of the Pacific and the International Seaman’s Union of America, they contested the U.S.’s relationship to its empire while capitalists in the shipping industry sought to impose their own ideas. Sophisticated and innovative, On the Waves of Empire reveals how maritime labor and shipping capital stitched together, tore apart, and re-stitched the seams of empire. Trade Review“Riddell shows US sailors struggling for their own emancipation. Especially after 1898, he shows them also as fashioning themselves as white agents of empire. The potential for drama and tragedy is great, and fully realized, in this riveting book.”--David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the RightTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Seams of Empire A Leak in the Ship of State”: Maritime Labor Reform and U.S. Imperial Expansion, 1872-1900 Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Imperial Labor Mobilization, Domestic Organized Labor, and the Emergence of a U.S. Metropole, 1902-1908 Riding the Waves of Empire: Craft Unionism, the La Follette Seamen’s Act of 1915, and the Economic Dimensions of U.S. Imperial Power, 1908 -1915 Agents of Empire: Merchant Sailors, the Great War, and the New American Merchant Marine, 1898-1919 They Always Choose Exclusion: Internal Dissent, Postwar U.S. Maritime Policy, and the Fall of the Sailors Unions, 1915-1924 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisQuestioning the boundaries between politics and economics Jean-Louis Laville’s large body of work has focused on an intellectual history of the concept of solidarity since the Industrial Revolution. In The Solidarity Economy, his most famous distillation of this work, Laville establishes how the formations of economic solidarities (unions, activism, and other forms of associationalism) reveal that the boundaries between politics and economics are porous and structured such that politics, ideally a pure expression of ethics and values, is instead integrated with economic concerns. Exploring the possibilities and long histories of association, The Solidarity Economy identifies the power of contemporary social and solidarity movements and examines the history of postcapitalist practices in which democratic demands invade the heart of the economy. The Solidarity Economy ranges in focus from workers associations in France dating back to the nineteenth century, to associations of African Americans and feminists in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to a Brazilian landless-worker coalition in the twentieth century. Studying solidarity associations over time allows us to examine how we can recombine the economic and political spheres to address dependencies and inequalities. Ultimately, The Solidarity Economy has global scope and inspiring examples of associations that deepen democracy. Trade Review "The practices that can carry us toward a plural economy and a plural democracy already exist; the question is what kind of social change they can bring about." —from the Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of Resolving Conflicts at Work will identify core strategies for use by workplace leaders, managers, union representatives, human resource experts, consultants, and employees to resolve and prevent both intermittent and chronic conflicts in the workplace.Table of ContentsForeword Conflict: An Opportunity for Leadership By Warren Bennis vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction Ten Strategies for Everyone on the Job xv Strategy 1 Understand the Culture and Dynamics of Conflict 1 Strategy 2 Listen Empathetically and Responsively 29 Strategy 3 Search Beneath the Surface for Hidden Meanings 63 Strategy 4 Acknowledge and Reframe Emotions 93 Strategy 5 Separate What Matters from What Gets in the Way 131 Strategy 6 Solve Problems Paradoxically and Creatively 169 Strategy 7 Learn from Difficult Behaviors 203 Strategy 8 Lead and Coach for Transformation 241 Strategy 9 Explore Resistance and Negotiate Collaboratively 273 Strategy 10 Mediate and Design Systems for Prevention 301 The Authors 333 Index 335

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Book SynopsisConsidering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Century offers the reader international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the importance of class analysis in the 21st century. Political economists, sociologists, educationalists, ethnographers, cultural and media analysts have contributed to this volume to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors i1 Introduction Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne Part 1: Class Theory 2 Class and the Classical Marxist Tradition Joseph Choonara3 Social Class and Education Dave Hill4 Marxist Class Theory: Competition, Contingency and Intermediate Class Positions Jonathan Pratschke5 Class Segregation  Danny Dorling6 The ‘Secret’ of the Restoration: Increased Class Exploitation Maurizio Donato and Roberto Taddeo Part 2: Class and Culture 7 Exploitation, Oppression, and Epistemology Holly Lewis8 Peasants, Migrants and Self-Employed Workers: The Masks that Veil Class Affiliation in Latin America: The Argentine Case Marina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli9 Capitalism, Class and Collective Identity: Social Movements and Public Services in South Africa Adrian Murray10 On Intellectuals Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne11 The British Working Class Post-blair Consensus: We Do Not Exist Lisa Mckenzie12 From Class Solidarity to Cultural Solidarity: Immigration, Crises, and the Populist Right Ferruh Yilmaz13 Recovering the Australian Working Class Tony Moore, Mark Gibson and Catharine Lumby Part 3: Class and the Media 14 ‘Everything Changes. Everything Stays the Same’: Documenting Continuity and Change in Working Class Lives Anita Biressi15 Ghettos and Gated Communities in the Social Landscape of Television: Representations of Class in 1982 and 2015 Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson16 Class, Culture and Exploitation: The Case of Reality tv  Milly Williamson17 Class Warfare, the Neoliberal Man and the Political Economy of Methamphetamine in Breaking Bad  Michael Seltzer18 ‘The Thing Is I’m Actually from Bromley’: Queer/Class Intersectionality in Pride (2014) Craig HaslopIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI 1. Introduction (historical thread) 2. Early Stage Reactors 3. Graphite Reactors II 4. Pressurized Water Reactors (Gen II) 5. Boiling Water Reactors (Gen II) 6. Pressurized Water Reactors (Gen III) 7. Boiling Water Reactors (Gen III) 8. Heavy Water Reactors III 9. Molten Salt Reactors 10. Sodium Fast Reactors 11. Lead Fast Reactors 12. High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors 13. Gas-Cooled Reactors 14. Super Water Reactors IV 15. Small Modular Reactors 16. Micro Reactors V 17. Accelerator Drive System Reactors 18. Fusion Reactors

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Crashes in Safety Analysis3. Traffic Conflicts as Crash Surrogates4. Techniques and Technologies of Observing Traffic Conflicts5. Studies on the Conflict-Crash Relationship6. Probabilistic Connection of Traffic Conflicts with Crashes7. Estimating Crash Frequency from Traffic Conflicts8. Challenges and Treatments in Estimating Crash Frequency9. Road Departures - Driving Simulator Study10. Right Angle Collisions - A Lesson Learned11. Rear-End Collisions - Naturalistic Driving Study12. Traffic Conflicts of Autonomous Vehicles13. Summary and Future Research Directions

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Riddell shows US sailors struggling for their own emancipation. Especially after 1898, he shows them also as fashioning themselves as white agents of empire. The potential for drama and tragedy is great, and fully realized, in this riveting book.”--David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the RightTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Seams of Empire A Leak in the Ship of State”: Maritime Labor Reform and U.S. Imperial Expansion, 1872-1900 Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Imperial Labor Mobilization, Domestic Organized Labor, and the Emergence of a U.S. Metropole, 1902-1908 Riding the Waves of Empire: Craft Unionism, the La Follette Seamen’s Act of 1915, and the Economic Dimensions of U.S. Imperial Power, 1908 -1915 Agents of Empire: Merchant Sailors, the Great War, and the New American Merchant Marine, 1898-1919 They Always Choose Exclusion: Internal Dissent, Postwar U.S. Maritime Policy, and the Fall of the Sailors Unions, 1915-1924 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignity Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York's power laundry industry in the 1930s. Jenny Carson tells the story of how substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination, and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city's laundry workers. Laundry work opened a door for African American women to enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort. But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical, community-based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by men. It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the plants. As Carson shows, this local struggle highlighted how race and gender shaped worker conditions, labor orgTrade Review"Even progressive organizations like the ACWA actively participated in the reproduction of racial and gender hierarchies within labour markets and within their own organizations. It is a sobering finding, albeit one tempered in Carson's account by extraordinary heroism of the laundry workers themselves." --Labour"Grounded in recent scholarship, A Matter of Moral Justice combines structural analysis of the industry with deft mini-biographies and astute assessments of industrial feminism, left organizations, and the CIO itself." --Labor: Studies in Working-Class History"An engaging book on a workforce that has received surprisingly little attention from labor historians. Carson provides a highly readable analysis of how racialized and gendered were job assignments, union organizing campaigns, and labor politics."--Dennis Deslippe, author of Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution"With this beautifully written, emotionally powerful book, Jennifer Carson has rescued the history of organizing among African-American and Afro-Caribbean laundry workers from the shadows. Power laundries were the largest industrial employer of Black women in the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century, but professional historians have paid little attention to these workers' long campaigns for justice. Carson narrates this crucial history with grace and verve, nuance and drama, centering the biographies of the remarkable organizers Dollie Robinson and Charlotte Adelmond and their struggle to bring decent working conditions and union recognition to a labor force made up almost entirely of women of color. As Carson relates struggles between Black women organizers and white male union leaders, fruitful but fraught alliances with Jewish organizers in the Women’s Trade Union League and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, she makes clear again and again how these movements were direct forebears of the Black Lives Matter and Fight for $15 movements. This history and its powerful actors are as relevant in 2020 as they have ever been. Brava."--Annelise Orleck, author of Rethinking American Women's Activism"Carson's book is well worth the read. . . . Carson has done a masterful job making Black working-class women and intersectionality central to US history." --American Historical Review"Carson's compelling study recovers Black women-led civil rights unionism in the North and provides a powerful and understudied history of how Black women workers sought to transform the labor movement, abolish oppressive workplaces, and build a moral and just society." --Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Process hazard studies3. The HAZOP study method4. The detailed HAZOP study procedure5. Organizing a HAZOP study 6. Carrying out a study7. Recording 8. Training 9. Company procedures for HAZOP study 10. HAZOP study of computer-controlled processes11. Specific applications of HAZOP 12. Factors for a successful HAZOP study

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Book SynopsisPublic safety, as well as the safety of products and services, is of paramount importance and interest to individuals, organisations and society. Safety successes are achieved every second, but we take them for granted and we do not appreciate the challenges professionals meet to make the world as safe as possible. Safety failures are less frequent but become focal points of stakeholders and the public with a tendency to blame and not comprehend the context and the hard decisions professionals have to make when balancing safety with competing goals.This edited book includes case studies from industry practitioners exactly as they experience them without relying on the understanding of researchers who conduct studies and try to map the overall situation per case based on multiple interviews, observations and questionnaires. Included are case studies from the aviation, construction, oil and gas, telecommunications, transportation, health and public safety industries. They are sTrade Review"This book contains a collection of engaging, real-world stories from experienced safety practitioners. The events are described with breath-taking honesty giving the reader a true insight into the events and situations described, their causes and mitigations. Insights of this kind are rare to find. Anyone with a professional interest in safety will find this volume an absorbing and enlightening read."Prof. Don Harris, Human Systems Integration Group, Coventry University, United Kingdom"I have worked with safety and reliability practitioners for twenty-five years and as a narrative psychologist my expertise is in the value of stories and how they contribute to knowledge. This book shares not only knowledge, but also experience in story shapes that will resonate with the industry."Dr. Jacqueline Ward, Chief Executive, Safety & Reliability Society, United Kingdom"It is said that ‘good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgement’ – this book provides a wide range of anecdotal examples of both good and poor judgement in the practice of safety management across various regions and sectors. Safety Insights: Success and Failure Stories of Practitioners brings together years of expert experience, sharing secrets to success, and perhaps more importantly allowing the reader to understand what can (and has) gone wrong in the practical application of safety. By reading this book, you will gain that good judgement and experience by learning from the poor judgement of others, and not having to go through the pain yourself!"Ross Dunsford, Team Leader Systems Assurance, Systems Engineering & Assurance, WSP, United Kingdom"This book is a part of the transition that is going on in safety thinking. It dismisses old school standard phrasing about human error, normative behaviour and exclusive managerial control. It crosses borders by adhering to an integral safety concept and multi-actor perspective. Rather than a judgemental perspective on outcomes, it focuses on observing primary processes and operational behaviour. Hopefully this book is the first of a series on books with a disruptive view on safety."Prof. John Stoop, Kindunos Safety Consultancy, Netherlands"Safety Insights: Success and Failure Stories of Practitioners" is a must-read primer for anyone considering safety as a priority and has an ulterior motive for wanting to read about first-hand knowledge from the safety frontier. I strongly recommend this inventiveness because there is no other book on the market that captures this attempt for sharing the experiences of safety practitioners who have worked across several industry domains, such as Aviation, Rail, Defence, Construction and Occupational Safety. Indeed, it is the first book of its kind that reads like the emotional journey of eighteen authors who are truthful and passionate about safety.Dr. Ilias Panagopoulos, Senior Trainer, Joint Aviation Authorities Training Organization, Netherlands"Safety Insights bridges the gap between theory and practice. Here, practitioners tell us about their very personal experiences with various safety management aspects; their frustrations, their challenges, but also their achievements. As can be seen from their insightful accounts, what is straightforward and black-and-white in theory is much more complex in practice. Safety Insights is highly recommended for anyone interested in learning more about the real-life organizational facets of safety."Nicolaus Dmoch, Safety Investigation Manager & Citation Latitude Pilot, NetJets Europe, Portugal"The book includes enjoyable and relevant chapters with learnings of practitioners, including their challenges and what has worked well for them. Although Health & Safety (H&S) practitioners are often a bit negative towards other H&S approaches, the stories shared in the book describe each approach reasonably, and the readers should be able to relate and find useful takeaways to apply in their roles. Regardless of how much interesting each chapter will seem to the reader, the stories highlight various issues faced by organisations and H&S staff and have the potential to create great debates."Adam Williams, Executive Director Health, Safety & Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Australia"This book is a vital addition to the rapidly evolving body of health and safety knowledge as it considers 'safety-as-done' - its challenges, dissonances and opportunities in the field, from the eyes and in the voices of safety practitioners themselves. The cross sectoral narrative is novel in that it provides an insight into how professional colleagues are navigating a complex space as it moves from a command and control paradigm to a more adaptive space. Highly recommended for practitioners, researchers and students alike."Dr. Satyan Chari, Senior Faculty, Healthcare Improvement Fellowship Program, Clinical Excellence Queensland, Australia"This book contains a collection of engaging, real-world stories from experienced safety practitioners. The events are described with breath-taking honesty giving the reader a true insight into the events and situations described, their causes and mitigations. Insights of this kind are rare to find. Anyone with a professional interest in safety will find this volume an absorbing and enlightening read."Prof. Don Harris, Human Systems Integration Group, Coventry University, United Kingdom"Safety Insights: Success and Failure Stories of Practitioners is an excellent platform to share narratives from real-world experiences. Different sectors, professionals and academics with practical safety experience make up a unique offer to the reader. Real-life cases are used to illustrate various principles of safety. I firmly believe that this work will be a reference point for the reader, be it a professional or an academic. Nektarios Karanikas and his team of contributors have done an excellent book to provide a reference point for the constantly changing, dynamic safety environment."Prof. George Boustras, European University Cyprus & Editor-in-Chief, Safety Science"I have worked with safety and reliability practitioners for twenty-five years and as a narrative psychologist my expertise is in the value of stories and how they contribute to knowledge. This book shares not only knowledge, but also experience in story shapes that will resonate with the industry."Dr. Jacqueline Ward, Chief Executive, Safety & Reliability Society, United Kingdom"It is said that ‘good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgement’ – this book provides a wide range of anecdotal examples of both good and poor judgement in the practice of safety management across various regions and sectors. Safety Insights: Success and Failure Stories of Practitioners brings together years’ of expert experience, sharing secrets to success, and perhaps more importantly allowing the reader to understand what can (and has) gone wrong in the practical application of safety. By reading this book, you will gain that good judgement and experience by learning from the poor judgement of others, and not having to go through the pain yourself!"Ross Dunsford, Team Leader Systems Assurance, Systems Engineering & Assurance, WSP, United Kingdom"This book is a part of the transition that is going on in safety thinking. It dismisses old school standard phrasing about human error, normative behaviour and exclusive managerial control. It crosses borders by adhering to an integral safety concept and multi-actor perspective. Rather than a judgemental perspective on outcomes, it focuses on observing primary processes and operational behaviour. Hopefully this book is the first of a series on books with a disruptive view on safety."Prof. John Stoop, Kindunos Safety Consultancy, Netherlands"Safety Insights: Success and Failure Stories of Practitioners’ is a must-read primer for anyone considering safety as a priority and has an ulterior motive for wanting to read about first-hand knowledge from the safety frontier. I strongly recommend this inventiveness because there is no other book on the market that captures this attempt for sharing the experiences of safety practitioners who have worked across several industry domains, such as Aviation, Rail, Defence, Construction and Occupational Safety. Indeed, it is the first book of its kind that reads like the emotional journey of eighteen authors who are truthful and passionate about safety."Dr. Ilias Panagopoulos, Senior Trainer, Joint Aviation Authorities Training Organization, Netherlands"Safety Insights bridges the gap between theory and practice. Here, practitioners tell us about their very personal experiences with various safety management aspects; their frustrations, their challenges, but also their achievements. As can be seen from their insightful accounts, what is straightforward and black-and-white in theory is much more complex in practice. Safety Insights is highly recommended for anyone interested in learning more about the real-life organizational facets of safety."Nicolaus Dmoch, Safety Investigation Manager & Citation Latitude Pilot, NetJets Europe, Portugal"The book includes enjoyable and relevant chapters with learnings of practitioners, including their challenges and what has worked well for them. Although Health & Safety (H&S) practitioners are often a bit negative towards other H&S approaches, the stories shared in the book describe each approach reasonably, and the readers should be able to relate and find useful takeaways to apply in their roles. Regardless of how much interesting each chapter will seem to the reader, the stories highlight various issues faced by organisations and H&S staff and have the potential to create great debates."Adam Williams, Executive Director Health, Safety & Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Australia"This book is a vital addition to the rapidly evolving body of health and safety knowledge as it considers 'safety-as-done' - its challenges, dissonances and opportunities in the field, from the eyes and in the voices of safety practitioners themselves. The cross sectoral narrative is novel in that it provides an insight into how professional colleagues are navigating a complex space as it moves from a command and control paradigm to a more adaptive space. Highly recommended for practitioners, researchers and students alike."Dr. Satyan Chari, Senior Faculty, Healthcare Improvement Fellowship Program, Clinical Excellence Queensland, AustraliaTable of ContentsPreface. Editors. Contributors. 1 System Knowledge: Most of the Times Adequate but Sometimes Insufficient. 2 Safety Interventions: How Can We Make Them Worth the Effort? 3 Only a Few Seconds to Change the Course of an Event. 4 How Could the Use of Technology Support Safety Management Programmes? 5 How to Eat an Elephant: Implementing Organisational Culture Change. 6 Is Safety Part of Your Business Model? Turning a ‘Simple-to-Fix’ Safety Incident into an Opportunity for Everyone. 7 The Development of Mental Health Proxy Teams and a Relationship That Threatened the Quality of a Safety Investigation. 8 Passenger Experience and Safety Systems. 9 Safety Numbers and Safety Differently. 10 Infrastructure Projects as Complex Socio-Technical Systems. 11 The Two Sides of the Same Coin. 12 Learning from Incidents: Mind the Whole Set of Dimensions. 13 Necessary Incompliance and Safety-Threatening Collegiality. 14 Are the Stakeholders on Your Side or Not? 15 Making Safety a Priority. 16 The Practical Value of Ensuring Effective Interfaces and Workforce Engagement. 17 Just When You Thought You’d Done Enough. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook summarises the history of British trade unions between 1933 and 2000. The book discusses the key themes and controversies surrounding trade unions, including their economic impact and their influence on government. It gives students a lucid introduction to the recent history of British trade unionism.Trade Review'… a very clear factual introduction to the topic … The style throughout is judicious and empirical, in the spirit of British industrial relations, using well-marshalled evidence to burst the bubble of political bias or dogmatic economic theory … a very useful historical text …'. Labour History ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Economic recovery and war, 1933–45; 3. Trade union development, 1945–2000; 4. Strikes, 1945–2000; 5. Incomes policies, 1948–79; 6. Trade union legislation, 1945–2000; 7. What trade unions have done.

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking study of academic job markets over the next quarter century uses rigorous analysis to project substantial excess demand for faculty starting in the 1997-2002 period. Particularly severe imbalances are projected in the humanities and social sciences. Contrary to popular impressions, however, these projected shortages are not cTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*List of Illustrations, pg. vii*Preface, pg. xiii*CHAPTER ONE. Introduction, pg. 3*CHAPTER TWO. Age Distributions and Exits from Academia, pg. 15*CHAPTER THREE. Population Trends and Enrollment Projections, pg. 30*CHAPTER FOUR. Enrollment by Sector and Field of Study: Trends and Projections, pg. 43*CHAPTER FIVE. Student/Faculty Ratios and Projections of Faculty Positions, pg. 66*CHAPTER SIX. The Supply of New Doctorates, pg. 90*CHAPTER SEVEN. The Changing Balance between Supply and Demand, pg. 118*CHAPTER EIGHT. Adjustment Mechanisms, pg. 144*CHAPTER NINE. Questions of Policy, pg. 172*APPENDIX A. Principal Sources of Data and Definitions of Fields of Study and Sectors, pg. 187*APPENDIX B. Derivation of Exit Probabilities, pg. 193*APPENDIX C. Correcting for Shifts in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions, pg. 204*APPENDIX D. Additional Tables for Chapters Four, Six, and Seven, pg. 206*Publications Cited, pg. 221

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