Ravenscraig

Author : Alex Marshall
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781460258477

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Ravenscraig is a post WWII fictionalized memoir told from the perspective of Alasdair Marshall who is raising his son Ewan, by himself, after his wife's death. When Alasdair's father Alex is struck with Alzheimer's, Jean, Alex's wife admits him to a full-time care facility called Ravenscraig which has a dark history as a lunatic asylum. The hospital becomes an ever present reminder to Alasdair of his father's deterioration. Jean is overwhelmed by the stress of Alzheimer's and the guilt of removing her husband from his home. Psychologically embattled, she begins to see the spirits of departed relatives. Finally, unable to cope and suffering from emphysema and osteoporosis, she moves to England to live with her daughter Margaret. Alasdair is compelled to examine his relationships with his father, mother and sisters by reliving childhood memories, good and bad. He remembers his family having to live in a cramped, three bedroom apartment with his grandparents, three uncles and an aunt. Clashing personalities and violent tempers are a constant threat to the calm of everyday life. However, Alasdair recalls happy times when the home was filled with laughter, humor and music. Although Ewan is upset that his grandpa doesn't remember him, he finds solace through the healing power of music. When he plays his bagpipes and his grandpa plays his accordion, they are reunited. Although Alzheimer's takes a terrible toll, ultimately it fails to destroy a family determined to reconcile the past with the present and overcome a troubled past....

Author : Sandi Krawchenko Altner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1039111734

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Ravenscraig by Sandi Krawchenko Altner Pdf

Author : Fiona McGillivray
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691190358

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Privileging Industry by Fiona McGillivray Pdf

Why do some industries win substantial protection from the whims of international trade while others do not? Privileging Industry challenges standard approaches to this question in its examination of when governments use trade and industrial policy for political goals. Fiona McGillivray shows why aiding an industry can be a politically efficient way for a government to redistribute resources from one industrial sector to another. Taking a comparative perspective that stands in contrast with the usual focus on U.S. trade politics, she explores, for example, how electoral rules, party strength, and industrial geography affect redistribution politics across countries. How do political institutions and the geographical dispersion of industries interact to determine which industries governments privilege? What tests can assess how governments distribute assistance across industries? Research has focused on the industries that legislators want to protect, but just as important is identifying those legislators able to deliver trade assistance. Assisting an industry requires both a will and a means. Whether an industry is a good vehicle through which to redistribute income depends on its geographic make-up and the country's electoral system. In turn, the electoral system and party strength affect how legislators' preferences contribute to policy. McGillivray tests these arguments using a tariff-based empirical test and nonstandard dependent variables such as the dispersion of stock prices within fourteen different capital markets, and government influence in the targeting of plant closures within declining industries.

Author : William Douglas Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Ravenscraig Castle
ISBN : UCAL:$B755776

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Ravenscraig Castle by William Douglas Simpson Pdf

Author : Victoria Marklew
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472105043

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Cash, Crisis, and Corporate Governance by Victoria Marklew Pdf

A "bottom-up" perspective on government-industry relations focusing on the government's role in restructuring industry in Europe and the U.S.

Author : David Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136331237

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The Official History of Privatisation, Vol. II by David Parker Pdf

This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997. Volume II considers in detail several of the major privatisations, including those of airports, steel, water, electricity, coal and the railways, as well as a number of smaller ones. Each privatisation involved major challenges in terms of industrial restructuring, organising successful sales and, in a number of cases, establishing effective regulatory regimes. The policy evolved and new methods of selling and regulating were put in place that enabled further disposals to occur. Monolithic nationalised industries with their emphasis on the benefits of economies of scale, vertical integration and rationalisation, were replaced by industrial structures rooted in the importance of commercial management, risk taking and competition. In government departments and parts of the National Health Service, direct employees were replaced by private contractors, and private investment became a characteristic of public infrastructure in the form of PFI/PPP schemes. This study draws heavily on the official records of the British government, to which the author was given full access and on interviews with the leading figures involved in each of the privatisations, including ex-ministers, civil servants, business and City figures, as well as academics that have studied the subject. This book will of great interest to students of privatisation, British political history and of business and economics in general.

Author : David Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857715586

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The Path to Devolution and Change by David Stewart Pdf

Margaret Thatcher's premiership from 1979 to 1990 had a profound impact on Scotland. David Stewart analyzes the impact of this period of Conservative government on Scotland, while examining the extent to which Conservative policy under Thatcher represented a break from the 'post-war consensus' in British politics. Focusing on the origins and impact of the poll tax, the campaign to save Ravenscraig steelworks, the sharpening of the North/South divide, the 1984/85 miners' strike, and the balance of power within Scottish civil society, he makes substantial contributions to the debates surrounding the decline of Scottish Unionism, the roots of Scottish devolution, the legacy of Thatcherism, and the changing British constitution.

Author : Ray Hudson,David Sadler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351806121

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The International Steel Industry by Ray Hudson,David Sadler Pdf

Originally published in 1989. The international steel industry suffered a major decline after the onset of world recession in 1973, perhaps suffering more plant closures and job losses than any other sector. This book analyses the decline, surveying the various factors which have contributed to it, such as changing production strategies, changes in demand and world trade and changing regional production trends. It goes on to examine the impact of decline on steel-making communities, considering the various local, national and international initiatives to assist the affected areas and the way these initiatives have been devised and implemented. The authors conclude that none of these policies has satisfactorily resolved the crisis in the old steel producing areas and that a major crisis in these areas continues. Finally they discuss the social and political options open to these localities for the future.

Author : Benjamin Collins,April Nowell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805394617

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Culturing the Body by Benjamin Collins,April Nowell Pdf

The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological evidence for practices of adornment of the body by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hominins, including personal ornaments, clothing, hairstyles, body painting, and tattoos. These practices have been variously interpreted to reflect differences such as gender, status, and ethnicity, to attract or intimidate others, and as indices of a symbolically mediated self and personal identity. These studies contribute to a novel and growing body of evidence for diversity of cultural expression in the past, something that is a hallmark of human cultures today.

Author : Phillips Jim Phillips
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781474452342

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Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century by Phillips Jim Phillips Pdf

Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal minerThroughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history, and highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that eventually resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The book also uses the struggle of the mineworkers to explore working class wellbeing more broadly during the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that saw jobs, workplaces and communities devastated. Key featuresExamines deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised processUses generational analysis to explain economic and political changeRelates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic security and working class welfareAnalyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safetyRelates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations

Author : James Mitchell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191002373

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The Scottish Question by James Mitchell Pdf

Over half a century ago, a leading commentator suggested that Scotland was very unusual in being a country which was, in some sense at least, a nation but in no sense a state. He asked whether something 'so anomalous' could continue to exist in the modern world. The Scottish Question considers how Scotland has retained its sense of self, and how the country has changed against a backdrop of fundamental changes in society, economy, and the role of the state over the course of the union. The Scottish Question has been a shifting mix of linked issues and concerns including national identity; Scotland's constitutional status and structures of government; Scotland's distinctive party politics; and everyday public policy. In this volume, James Mitchell explores how these issues have interacted against a backdrop of these changes. He concludes that while the independence referendum may prove an important event, there can be no definitive answer to the Scottish Question. The Scottish Question offers a fresh interpretation of what has made Scotland distinctive and how this changed over time, drawing on an array of primary and secondary sources. It challenges a number of myths, including how radical Scottish politics has been, and suggests that an oppositional political culture was one of the most distinguishing features of Scottish politics in the twentieth century. A Scottish lobby, consisting of public and private bodies, became adept in making the case for more resources from the Treasury without facing up to some of Scotland's most deep-rooted problems.

Author : Archibald Malcolm Archibald
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Merchant mariners
ISBN : 9781474463966

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Dundee Whaling Fleet by Archibald Malcolm Archibald Pdf

At the end of the 19th century, Dundee was Europe's premier Arctic whaling port. From humble beginnings in the 1750's this national industry had survived French and American wars, privateers, economic slumps, storms, heart-wrenching disasters and some amazing triumphs.From 1860 until the 1880's, Dundee built the most efficient Arctic vessels in the world. Despite being only a small city on the east coast of Scotland, as the 19th century closed, it was the most important Arctic whaling port in Europe.The Dundee Whaling Fleet gives an overview of Dundee's experience in Arctic whaling, including a valuable guide to every ship in the fleet with statistics, dates and a thumbnail history. It also gives sketches of the most prominent of the whaling masters, Dundee shipping companies and 350 of the tens of thousands of seamen who took the ships north.

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591061282

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Scotland illustrated in a series of eighty views from drawings by ... Scottish artists by John Wilson Pdf

Author : Gordon D. Webster
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750957205

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Railways of Glasgow by Gordon D. Webster Pdf

The city of Glasgow, formerly one of the largest industrial centres in the world, was once responsible for building about one-quarter of the world's railway locomotives. This was complemented by a massive urban railway network: the second largest in the UK. However, the Beeching Report of 1963 inevitably took its toll on Glasgow. This book examines the changing face of Glasgow's railways ever since, starting with the period of rationalisation and industrial decline that followed. It also explores the revival enjoyed in the latter half of the twentieth century, with lines re-opened and modern rolling stock being introduced. And with Glasgow hosting the 2014 Commonwealth Games, we take a look at the emphasis being placed on the railway as further development work takes place.

Author : Michael Meighan
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445624013

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Scotland's Lost Industries by Michael Meighan Pdf

Michael Meighan takes us on a journey into a time when Scotland, despite its small size, produced the best of everything, from stone to steel and rubber tyres to motor cars