wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Inside and Out: Universities and Education for Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780895033611 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Two overarching questions permeate the literature on universities and civic engagement: How does a university restructure its myriad activities, maintain its academic integrity, and have a transformative impact off campus? And, who ought to participate in the conversations that frame and guide both the internal restructuring process and the off-campus interactions? The perspective of this book, based on research and projects in the field, is that long-term, sustainable social and economic development requires strategies geared to the scientific, technical, cultural, and environmental aspects...
Two overarching questions permeate the literature on universities and civic engagement: How does a university restructure its myriad activities, maint...
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760,80 zł |
The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike
ISBN: 9780895038623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills." Thus begins the federal government's Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This book follows up, one hundred years later. The story's retelling offers readers an exciting reexamination of just how powerful a united working class can be. The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 - the Bread and Roses Strike - was a public protest by 20,000 to 25,000 immigrant workers from several countries, prompted by a wage...
"In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills." T...
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435,44 zł |
The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike
ISBN: 9780895038616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills." Thus begins the federal government's Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This book follows up, one hundred years later. The story's retelling offers readers an exciting reexamination of just how powerful a united working class can be. The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 - the Bread and Roses Strike - was a public protest by 20,000 to 25,000 immigrant workers from several countries, prompted by a wage...
"In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills." T...
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760,80 zł |
Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley
ISBN: 9780895033260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United Technologies Corporation ordered the closure of the 76-year-old American Bosch manufacturing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, capping a nearly 32-year history of job loss and work relocation from the sprawling factory. The author, a former Bosch worker and the business agent for the union representing nearly 1,200 Bosch employees when the plant closed, interjects his personal recollections into the story.For more than 150 years Springfield stood at the center of... On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United Technologies Corporati... |
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367,23 zł |
Lawrence and the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike
ISBN: 9781531667283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Incorporated in 1847 on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was the final and most ambitious of New Englands planned textile-manufacturing cities developed by the Boston-area entrepreneurs who helped launch the American Industrial Revolution. With a dam and canal system to generate power, by 1912 Lawrence led the world in the production of worsted wool cloth. The Pacific Cotton Mills alone had sales of nearly $10 million and had mechanical equipment capable of producing 800 miles of finished textile fabrics every working day. However, industrial growth was accompanied...
Incorporated in 1847 on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was the final and most ambitious of New Englands planned textile-ma...
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139,73 zł |
Inside and Out: Universities and Education for Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780415784344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Two overarching questions permeate the literature on universities and civic engagement: How does a university restructure its myriad activities, maintain its academic integrity, and have a transformative impact off campus? And, who ought to participate in the conversations that frame and guide both the internal restructuring process and the off-campus interactions? The perspective of this book, based on research and projects in the field, is that long-term, sustainable social and economic development requires strategies geared to the scientific, technical, cultural, and environmental aspects...
Two overarching questions permeate the literature on universities and civic engagement: How does a university restructure its myriad activities, maint...
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173,09 zł |
Where Are the Workers?: Labor's Stories at Museums and Historic Sites
ISBN: 9780252086465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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115,37 zł |
Where Are the Workers?: Labor's Stories at Museums and Historic Sites
ISBN: 9780252044397 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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477,47 zł |
Shoes, Glues and Homework: Dangerous Work in the Global Footwear Industry
ISBN: 9780415784375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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236,06 zł |
Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley
ISBN: 9780415785662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United Technologies Corporation ordered the closure of the 76-year-old American Bosch manufacturing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, capping a nearly 32-year history of job loss and work relocation from the sprawling factory. The author, a former Bosch worker and the business agent for the union representing nearly 1,200 Bosch employees when the plant closed, interjects his personal recollections into the story.For more than 150 years Springfield stood at the center of... On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United Technologies Corporati... |
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603,39 zł |
Northern Exposures: A Canadian Perspective on Occupational Health and Environment
ISBN: 9780415784368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental protection and is beginning to create a new and more sustainable vision for the future. Dave Bennett's knowledge and commitment shine through. He is, by turns, the skeptical philosopher sifting the evidence and the passionate partisan arguing for the rights of the people. It makes for a rich and exhilarating mixture.-Nigel Crisp, Permanent Secretary, U.K. Department of Health, and Chief Executive, National Health Service (2000-2006), Author, Turning the World Upside... 'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental protection and is begi... |
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272,78 zł |
Who Is Nursing Them? It Is Us: Neoliberalism, Hiv/Aids, and the Occupational Health and Safety of South African Public Sector Nurses
ISBN: 9780415784399 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The story of South African public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic-for a workforce that played a role in the struggle against apartheid, women who deal with the burden of HIV/AIDS care at work and in the community, and a constituency of the new South African democracy that is working on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Through case studies of three provincial hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal,...
This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, ...
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236,06 zł |