This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Focusing on three occupational sectors in particular teachers, bank workers and the railway industry it also presents an argument that is both more general than this and theoretically and analytically wide-ranging. The book explores some important questions: how are workers, both in the past and the present juncture, socialised into work cultures? What are the cultural and...
This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent empirical trends and methodological a...
Providing a new perspective on post-war reconstruction in Britain, this book examines the social context of the construction industry in the immediate post-war period and culminating in the industrialised building boom of the 1960s and 70s. It explores policy changes in education, training and employment in relation to the experience of work for both architects and building workers, demonstrating the extreme separation of design from production, the factor cited in the Emmerson Report of 1962 as a major contributor to the failure of the British building industry to fully modernise....
Providing a new perspective on post-war reconstruction in Britain, this book examines the social context of the construction industry in the immedi...
Sixteen-year-old Australian, Killara Jones, is the chosen one-for all the wrong reasons. A lone psychic in the sleepy town of Khalija, North Dakota, he is a self-proclaimed freak who can see angels, demons, and a lot of other things in between. Unbeknownst to him, his talents are a means to an end. His death has been foretold-he is a crucial element in the war between Heaven and Hell-until a fallen angel named Sullivan steps in. With Killara very much alive, he and Sullivan must break an ancient pact, stop Killara's classmates from selling their souls, and prevent the Gates of Hell from...
Sixteen-year-old Australian, Killara Jones, is the chosen one-for all the wrong reasons. A lone psychic in the sleepy town of Khalija, North Dakota, h...
This book is unique in describing the history of post war reconstruction from an entirely new perspective by focusing on the changing relationship between architects and building workers. It considers individual, as well as collective, interactions with technical change and in doing so brings together, for the first time, an extraordinary range of sources including technical archives, oral history and visual material to describe the construction process both during and in the decades after the war. It focuses on the social aspects of production and the changes in working life for...
This book is unique in describing the history of post war reconstruction from an entirely new perspective by focusing on the changing relationship ...
New York Police Detective, Kate Morgan carries many secrets. The black sheep of America's most notorious crime family, she walks a fine line between her commitment to truth and justice and the obligations demanded from her family. FBI agent Grant Anderson, embraces his role and place in the Anderson family, America's richest and most philanthropic example of good will and kindness. His loyalty ends however, with his family's expectations of marrying the right girl. For thousands of years, the Morgans and Andersons have been sworn enemies. Clans, steadfast in their loyalty and commitment as...
New York Police Detective, Kate Morgan carries many secrets. The black sheep of America's most notorious crime family, she walks a fine line between h...
Two detectives. One terrorist from another universe. One chance to save the world. A fragile society, struggling to recover from its past, faces an uncertain future. Nowhere is this more obvious, than in Washington D.C., where its police force battle criminals, terrorists and a new phenomenon called The Fog. All consuming and relentless, it descends and attacks, tearing apart the city and destroying lives in seconds. A natural anomaly with a destructive force unlike anyone has ever seen. But is it all that it seems? For D.C. Detectives Lainey Turner and Jack Callahan, their pursuit of the...
Two detectives. One terrorist from another universe. One chance to save the world. A fragile society, struggling to recover from its past, faces an un...
