A Savage Factory

Author : Robert J. Dewar
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : 9781438952949

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A Savage Factory by Robert J. Dewar Pdf

A Savage Factory is a true memoir straight from the factory floor of an automotive giant losing the global auto war to smaller, weaker, less experienced foreign competitors that beat us at our own game on our own turf. It gives an inside look, up close, at incompetent management at war with the labor force that created a quality nightmare and caused the car buying public to lose trust and faith in American cars. It is a true story of the inner workings of Ford's largest automatic transmission plant: the people, the machines, and the never ending war between management and labor that produced low quality cars that opened the door for foreign competitors to come to our country and take our auto market. It gives real life examples of the battlefield like conditions in the auto plants that caused alcoholism, drug addition, sexual harassment, and family breakdown, while producing transmissions that received the largest recall in automotive history and would have caused Ford Motor Company to go bankrupt had the Federal Government not intervened.

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429990707

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A Savage Empire by Alan Axelrod Pdf

A surprising and sweeping history that reveals the fur trade to be the driving force behind conquest, colonization, and revolution in early America Combining the epic saga of Hampton Sides's Blood and Thunder with the natural history of Mark Kurlansky's Cod, popular historian Alan Axelrod reveals the astonishingly vital role a small animal—the beaver—played in the creation of our nation. The author masterfully relays a story often neglected by conventional histories: how lust for fur trade riches moved monarchs and men to launch expeditions of discovery, finance massive corporate enterprises, and wage war. Deftly weaving cultural and military narratives, the author chronicles how Spanish, Dutch, French, English, and Native American tribes created and betrayed alliances based on trapping and trade disputes, producing a surprisingly complex series of loyalties that endured throughout the Revolution and beyond.

Author : Amal Amireh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136712609

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The Factory Girl and the Seamstress by Amal Amireh Pdf

This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with their society's economic and social relaities. Against this view and to highlight the cultural importance of working-class women, this study argues that, in responding to industrialization, middle class writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Fern, Davies, and Phelps used the figures of the factory worker and the seamstress to express their anxieties about unstable gender and class identitites. These fictional representations were influenced by, and contributed to, an important but understudied cultural debate about wage labor, working women, and class.

Author : David Eimer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781408883860

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A Savage Dreamland by David Eimer Pdf

The first of its kind: an exploration of one of the most mysterious countries in the world, as told by one of the first outsiders to access the country in its entirety For almost fifty years Burma was ruled by a paranoid military dictatorship and isolated from the outside world. A historic 2015 election swept an Aung San Suu Kyi-led civilian government to power and was supposed to usher in a new golden era of democracy and progress, but Burma remains unstable and undeveloped, a little-understood country. Nothing is straightforward in this captivating land that is home to a combustible mix of races, religions and resources. A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma reveals a country where temples take priority over infrastructure, fortune tellers thrive and golf courses are carved out of war zones. Setting out from Yangon, the old capital, David Eimer travels throughout this enigmatic nation, from the tropical south to the Burmese Himalayas in the far north, via the Buddhist-centric heartland and the jungles and mountains where rebel armies fight for autonomy in the longest-running civil wars in recent history. The story of modern Burma is told through the voices of the people Eimer encounters along the way: former political exiles, the squatters in Yangon's shanty towns, radical monks, Rohingya refugees, princesses and warlords, and the ethnic minorities clustered along the country's frontiers. In his vivid and revelatory account of life, history, culture and politics, David Eimer chronicles the awakening of a country as it returns to the global fold and explores a fractured nation, closed to foreigners for decades. Authoritative and ground-breaking, A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma is set to be a modern classic of travel writing.

Author : White Francis and co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591047279

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Nottinghamshire. History, directory and gazetteer of the county, and of the town and county of the town of Nottingham. To which is added, the history and directory of the port of Gainsborough by White Francis and co Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Reading (Pa.)
ISBN : SRLF:A0014030316

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History of Reading, Pennsylvania, and the Anniversary Proceedings of the Sesqui-centennial, June 5-12, 1898 by Anonim Pdf

Author : George M. Savage
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449779269

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Bittersweet by George M. Savage Pdf

Bittersweet is a touching collection of reflections, stories, and words of wisdom inspired by one man’s memories and thoughts. George Savage’s memoir will take you from the present to the past, and you will discover a piece of your own heritage and history. He has an emotional tie with his roots, and you’ll form an emotional tie to your own roots as you read his reflections. With Bittersweet, he keeps the memories alive and gives his family a legacy of love and courage. His journey has been one of tragedy and triumph—a bittersweet story of success, trials and tribulations, agonizing sadness and tremendous joy, love and compassion. With the writing of Bittersweet, he sends an inspiring message: “If a small, poor, backwoods boy from the hills of Tennessee can persevere in the face of many hardships and obstacles and find happiness and success, you can too.”

Author : Clive Cussler,Justin Scott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698169678

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The Assassin by Clive Cussler,Justin Scott Pdf

Detective Isaac Bell tracks a killer across the nation’s oilfields in this adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling historical series. As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin—shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range—kills Bell’s best witness. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim’s independent refinery ablaze. Bell summons his best detectives to hunt down the mysterious killer. But the murders—shootings, poisonings, staged accidents—have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary from the “oil fever” regions of Kansas and Texas to Washington, D.C., to the tycoons’ enclave of New York, to Russia’s war-torn Baku oil fields on the Caspian Sea, and back to America for a final, desperate confrontation. And this one will be the most explosive of all.

Author : Michael Hait
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105389931

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The Civil War Draft in Maryland: Lists of Drafted Men, 1862-1865, Volume II: 24 Jun 1864 – 8 Apr 1865 by Michael Hait Pdf

Author : United States. National Mediation Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Railroads
ISBN : HARVARD:32044085011336

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Arbitration Board No. 192, N. M. B. Case A-4400 by United States. National Mediation Board Pdf

Author : Peter Good
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350152281

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The East India Company in Persia by Peter Good Pdf

In 1747, the city of Kerman in Persia burned amidst chaos, destruction and death perpetrated by the city's own overlord, Nader Shah. After the violent overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 and subsequent foreign invasions from all sides, Persia had been in constant turmoil. One well-appointed house that belonged to the East India Company had been saved from destruction by the ingenuity of a Company servant, Danvers Graves, and his knowledge of the Company's privileges in Persia. This book explores the lived experience of the Company and its trade in Persia and how it interacted with power structures and the local environment in a time of great upheaval in Persian history. Using East India Company records and other sources, it charts the role of the Navy and commercial fleet in the Gulf, trade agreements, and the experience of Company staff, British and non-British living in and navigating conditions in 18th-century Persia. By examining the social, commercial and diplomatic history of this relationship, this book creates a new paradigm for the study of Early Modern interactions in the Indian Ocean.

Author : Michael McIntosh
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780892728473

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Best Guns by Michael McIntosh Pdf

This is the best and most comprehensive guide for those new to the world of fine guns, and a standard reference for everyone, written with the precision and the seamless grace that is a Michael McIntosh's trademark style.

Author : John Thomas Scharf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1330 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
ISBN : UOM:39015028619628

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History of Baltimore City and County, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day by John Thomas Scharf Pdf

Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412826990

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Journeys to England and Ireland by Alexis de Tocqueville Pdf

"…a tireless observer, and one of unparalleled brilliance and prescience, with a remarkable ability to draw strangers to serious talk. Here, in visits of a few months, he manages to see and describe more of the essence of English character, society, and politics—as well as that bottomless pit, the Irish problem, than most others have in a lifetime." —The New Yorker

Author : United States. Dept. of Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Railroads
ISBN : IND:30000066206420

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Rail Service in the Midwest and Northeast Region by United States. Dept. of Transportation Pdf