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Can working class solidarity reemerge?.......2000-09-23
For the author the working class for its own wellbeing must be unified against the predations and exploitations of employers. The book focuses on the historical existence and effectiveness of worker solidarity as primarily exercised through unions.
The need for working class solidarity arose as formerly independent craftsmen were forced into a factory system producing for an expansive capitalistic market and in the process lost control of their economic lives. Worker organizations such as the Knights of Labor, the Wobblies, and craft-based unions attempted to address this transformation and the accompanying brutal working conditions. Le Blanc clearly outlines their struggles: the extreme cyclic nature of late 19th century capitalism undercut worker militancy; racial, ethnic, religious, gender and skill differences undermined solidarity; employers mounted intense and often violent opposition with state support.
A main theme of the book is the effect on worker solidarity when union bureaucrats seek accommodation with business or rely on the state for survival. Gompers, first president of the AFL, eschewed worker militance in cooperating with the National Civic Federation and then the Wilson administration during WWI. Later, New Deal labor legislation as elaborated and implemented by the War Labor Board of WWII essentially prohibited workers from any exercise of power on shop-floors. Union leaders demonstrated a willingness to purge dissidents, pandering to red-scare mania, and to enforce contracts that traded economic gains for union members in exchange for unchallenged management control of workplaces - an unspoken social compact that has been shredded in the era of globalization.
The author points to some recent developments within and outside the labor movement as a result of the recognition of the poverty of post-WWII labor leadership. But a weakness of the book, since it purports to discuss the working class, is any real feel for the general citizenry's views on the need for worker activism. What have been the effects of consumerism and of the stunted and stilted information provided by media giants on the American public? Overall the book is a reasonably good introduction as to how the working class has fared over the last 150 years. Though not a fault of the author, the future of the working class emerges from this book as a very precarious project.
Too short, but great bibliography.......2000-04-12
As a grad student in American History, I hoped this book would give me a brief but useful overview of the role of labor in history. While this is definitely a "short" work, it highlights late 19th and early 20th century labor movements at the expense of early material. Indeed, he only devotes 20 pages for the colonial period, Revolution, and all pre-Civil War developments! How stingy!
My disappointment is partially a measure of my interest in Revolutionary history and the shift from artisans to wage laborers. This early material is both fascinating and relevant for all sorts of later trends. If you share my interests, I recommend you run an Amazon search on authors such as Bruce Laurie, Merritt Roe Smith (a bit later but really interesting), Charles Dew, and Gordon Wood, to name a few. If you are interested in post-Civil War developments, this book may be just right for you: it is concise and easy to read, in spite of more than a few small errors. This is no more than an introduction and survey, but it can bring you up to speed on basic concepts very quickly.
I was very pleasantly surprised by Le Blanc's 22 page bibliographic essay and 19 page glossary. (He also includes a timeline and chronology, if you're into that sort of thing.) These sections are very useful as a quick reference while reading the book and afterward. The bibliographic essay points you to a broad spectrum of movies, documentaries, and books that should satisfy anyone's interests and needs (I can't wait to rent "On the Waterfront" and "Roger and Me" -- they sound great).
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century
Paul Le Blanc
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Every kid knows that things are a lot more expensive today than when their parents grew up. That means they have to earn more than their parents, and this book will show them how.
Earning money should be fun. Make More than Your Parents uncovers the reality that, the more fun they make it, the better they'll be at it. With cool activities, helpful hints, fun graphics and journaling pages, this book provides a step-by-step process that outlines the most effective ways for kids to make their money work for them, to build a life of financial freedom.
Chapters include: Getting Started; Earning Money; Spending Money; Saving Money; Investing Money; and Be Your Own Boss. In addition, helpful resource sections outline job ideas, as well as agencies that can help with career advice and money management. A suggested reading list and glossary help make this book a fun, one-stop sourcebook for all money-management questions. Plus, readers can visit the Make More Web site: www.gotmoola.com.
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Why didn't I think of this?.......2003-10-22
Excellent book for children. If you truly want to give your children or grand children a gift that teaches them the value of investing and honing their entrepreneur skills, then this is the book. Not only do your children receive a book, they also are introduced to an interactive website where they can share ideas with other children and create and track their investment portfolios.
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This is the story of the toughest sentencing law in America as chronicled by those who were intimately involved in the fight to see it enacted, and who believe in it passionately. It is the story of one family's heartbreak, of behind-the-scenes political maneuvering by soft-on-crime, liberal politicians in an effort to eviserate the law, and it's the story of the ultimate victory by a majority of Californians who, in a reversal of decades of citizen neglect, defied the crime "experts" and voted for common sense and justice.
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Tough Love Through Strict Sentencing..........2000-07-11
Until Mike became motivated by the loss of his daughter, California's prisons were a short stopover for violent criminals on their way to their next victim. Poor grammar aside, the book vividly portrays California's legislature being run by an immensely strong liberal cadre of men dedicated not to the public who elected them but to a political philosphy out of step with common sense and the one man who ran the assembly at that time, Willy Brown.
Not only was Kimber sensely sacrificed but also Polly Klaas. Polly was kidnapped from her home during a pajama party then raped and killed by a repeat felon just out of prison. This took place just as the initiative was being circulated for signatures. The event so moved the hearts and souls of the citizens of California that the politicians resisting the prison reform effort either got out of the way or joined the ranks of those supporting it.
The Three Strikes law has accomplished what it set out to do: Take dangerous repeat offenders off the street! Not only is crime down over 46% here in the state (2000 stats) but not one single prison has been built. In fact, prison population is down.
The only senseless thing is why did so many have to suffer and die and why did it take so long to bring about this common sense reform?
New Yorkers take note!
Awful book. Badly written, biased, waste of time/money........1999-04-08
If you are looking for an honest, intelligent account of the Three Strikes law, its origins, and its impacts, this is NOT the book to read.
The murder of Kimber Reynolds was a tragic, sad, horrendous event, and my heart goes out to Mike Reynolds. I can see how he would want to start a crusade to prevent such a tragedy from occurring again.
I am a policy analyst who has done a great deal of reearch on Three Strikes. There are various potential benefits of the Three Strikes law, but the impacts on the budget and the corrections system will probably be vast. These costs and effects are never discussed in this book. The details of the law are glossed over.
The book is a pathetic attempt to turn a sad story into heavy-handed propaganda for a controversial law and its proponents. It's like an overly long campaign leaflet, launching harsh attacks on the law's opponents and making the law's proponents out to be heroes.
Easily one of the worst books I have ever read. If there were any way to give it less than one star, I certainly would.
Bad/sad story on how you go from grief to horrendous policy.......1998-11-01
This book is an embarrassment. Badly written, badly conceived. A sad, incomplete, and partial account of the tragic slippage from personal grief to the collective tragedy of a policy that does nothing but aggravate the problem it is supposed to solve. Relies on emotion, not on argument. Pitiful.
Reads like a fast-paced novel........1996-08-08
This is the story of how one man, working to overcome theheartbreak of his daughter's murder by a repeat felon,fought the powers that be and changed the system. It's a behind the scenes look at how politics works (or doesn't!) for the citizens. It may be nonfiction, but it reads like a thriller. Fast- paced, intriguing, often scary in its frank portrayal of politics as usual.
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Sentencing: Theory, Law and Practice
Nigel Walker , and
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What are sentencers' new statutory powers? How are they affected by case law and practice directions? What are their unstated aims and assumptions? What is their effect in real life? Who suffers from discrimination--women, ethnic minorities, the mentally disordered? What is the relevance of
public attitudes, stigma, dangerousness? This is the only textbook which sets out to ask and answer all these questions.
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The question "What can justify criminal punishment ?" becomes especially insistent at times, like our own, of penal crisis, when serious doubts are raised not only about the justice or efficacy of particular modes of punishment, but about the very legitimacy of the whole penal system. Recent theorizing about punishment offers a variety of answers to that question-answers that try to make plausible sense of the idea that punishment is justified as being deserved for past crimes; answers that try to identify some beneficial consequences in terms of which punishment might be justified; as well as abolitionist answers telling us that we should seek to abolish, rather than to justify, criminal punishment. This book begins with a critical survey of recent trends in penal theory, but goes on to develop an original account (based on Duff's earlier Trials and Punishments) of criminal punishment as a mode of moral communication, aimed at inducing repentance, reform, and reconciliation through reparation-an account that undercuts the traditional controversies between consequentialist and retributivist penal theories, and that shows how abolitionist concerns can properly be met by a system of communicative punishments. In developing this account, Duff articulates the "liberal communitarian" conception of political society (and of the role of the criminal law) on which it depends; he discusses the meaning and role of different modes of punishment, showing how they can constitute appropriate modes of moral communication between political community and its citizens; and he identifies the essential preconditions for the justice of punishment as thus conceived-preconditions whose non-satisfaction makes our own system of criminal punishment morally problematic. Punishment, Communication, and Community offers no easy answers, but provides a rich and ambitious ideal of what criminal punishment could be-an ideal of what criminal punishment cold be-and ideal that challenges existing penal theories as well as our existing penal theories as well as our existing penal practices.
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A Theory of Legal Sentences (Law and Philosophy Library)
Manuel Atienza , and
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Legal statements are, according to the authors, the most basic elements of the law. Nevertheless they must be considered not only as the pieces of a puzzle, but also as the components of a dynamic and highly complex reality: the law of contemporary society. The book presents an analysis of the different types of legal statements (mandatory rules, principles, power-conferring rules, definitions, permissions, values and the rule of recognition) from a threeefold perspective, that is, considering their logical structure, their function in legal reasoning as reasons for action, and their connections with the interests and power relationships among the individuals and the social groups. The result is conceived as a first step in the building of a general theory of law designed not as an isolated discourse but as a decisive element for the dynamization of the legal culture.
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Molecular Biology of Seed Storage Proteins and Lectins
Leland M. Shannon
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Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry (Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics)
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For turbulent flows at relatively low speeds there exists an excellent mathematical model in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Why then is the "problem of turbulence" so difficult? One reason is that these nonlinear partial differential equations appear to be insoluble, except through numerical simulations, which offer useful approximations, but little direct understanding. Three recent developments offer new hope. First, the discovery by experimentalists of coherent structures in certain turbulent flows. Secondly, the suggestion that strange attractors and other ideas from finite dimensional dynamical systems theory might play a role in the analysis of the governing equations. And, finally, the introduction of the Karhunen Loève or proper orthogonal decomposition. This book introduces these developments and describes how they may be combined to create low-dimensional models of turbulence, resolving only the coherent structures. This book will interest engineers, especially in the aerospace, chemical, civil, environmental and geophysical areas, as well as physicists and applied mathematicians concerned with turbulence.
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- The life of a child in post-war Southern Italy
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Bread, Wine & Angels: A Novel
Anna P. Zurzolo
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The life of a child in post-war Southern Italy.......2006-10-06
I bought this book because the story takes place in the town where my wife's grandparents were born, San Giovanni in Fiore. The story is told in the voice of a young girl who misses her parents, who have gone to Canada to seek a better life. The parents plan to send for the children as they can afford to do so, but instead they give birth to more children in the new land. This complicates things because money is scarce. The girl lives in San Giovanni in Fiore with her aunt, who is a picture-book, old-fashioned Calabrian woman. The author, Anna P. Zurzolo, who grew up in San Giovanni in Fiore, gives us an up-close and personal look at day-to-day life from a generation-ago in Calabria. When we went to visit the actual city, Zurzolo's story really came to life for us. This is a delightful book that I enjoy reading over and over again for the mental pictures of the old mountain town.
Beautiful story of life..........1999-08-20
As the daughter of Italian immigrants, I found myself being totally immersed in this wonderful novel. Even more surprising, is the fact that our family also settled in Winnipeg, just like the little girl from San Giovanni. I found this story magical.
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