Uncertain Unions

Author : Lawrence Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Marriage
ISBN : 0198202539

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Uncertain Unions by Lawrence Stone Pdf

In Road to Divorce, Lawrence Stone explored the different ways in which marriage took place, and analysed the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the legality of the institution in its various forms before the Marriage Act of 1753. He now shows in absorbing detail, through a series of case-studies, how courting and marrying couples tended to manoeuvre around the ambiguities of the law, and how they sometimes became entangled in a web of moral and legal contradiction leading to personal catastrophe. There are stories about unwise courtship, prenuptial pregnancies, forced marriages by parents or parish officials, bigamy, clandestine marriages often performed in haste in peculiarly squalid circumstances and repented at leisure. These fascinating studies reveal in intimate, often ribald, detail how men and women adjusted their sexual conduct, moral attitudes, and matrimonial plans to suit an ambiguous legal situation. Professor Stone has traced the ways in which, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, demands by individuals for love and affection were starting to take precedence over family interests and parental dictation in the search for a spouse; the studies he has drawn from court records for Uncertain Unions enable us to see this great moral transition being played out in the lives of men and women, often in their own words. These are vivid, human histories, presented in revealing detail, by a leading historian of the family.

Author : Lawrence Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Divorce
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060616831

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Uncertain Unions, And, Broken Lives by Lawrence Stone Pdf

In the first part of this book, Lawrence Stone provides a series of case-studies which paint a vivid picture of how individuals coped with the manifold uncertainties of the law of marriage before the Marriage Act of 1753. There are stories of unwise courtship, prenuptial pregnancies, forced marriages, and bigamy, told in intimate, often ribald detail. The case-studies in the second part reveal how the break-up and dissolution of marriages was contrived before the first Divorce Act in 1857. Offering details of dramatic courtroom confrontations, secret negotiations, blackmail, and bribery, they provide sobering evidence of the huge gap between the enacted law and actual practice in early modern England.

Author : Todd A. DeMitchell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475854299

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Teachers and Their Unions by Todd A. DeMitchell Pdf

Teachers and Their Unions: Labor Relations in Uncertain Times explores the decade of uncertainty in public education following the Great Recession by first laying a foundation that describes the development of teachers and public education and the rise of teacher unions. The selection of the industrial labor model at the outset of public sector collective bargaining set the table for challenges to its fit with education. The theme of teacher as member of a union and teacher as a professional is explored within the context of a collective bargaining environment. The section “Law and Politics in Uncertain Times: Retrenchment and Assault” explores the decade of uncertainty. It reviews the industrial union model and within the twin challenges of the conundrum of teacher as union member and professional in the struggles of the decade. Tenure (boondoggle or necessary protection), VAM (rank and yank), right-to-work, agency fees, and teacher strikes are explored within the themes of the industrial union model and the tension of union member and professional. The book concludes with thoughts for the future and responds to the question of whether teacher unions are still pertinent.

Author : Lawrence Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UVA:X001844932

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Road to Divorce by Lawrence Stone Pdf

This work tells the complex story of how, from the Reformation to the present day, English men and women have contrived to use, twist or defy the law in order to deal with marital breakdown.

Author : S. David Carriker, D. Min.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781387217304

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The Cemeteries of Jackson and Sandy Ridge Townships, Union County, North Carolina: Volume 5 by S. David Carriker, D. Min. Pdf

A compilation of 45 African-American cemeteries in Jackson and Sandy Ridge Townships in Union Co., NC, with eight surrounding townships, in North and South Carolina.

Author : E. Paul Durrenberger
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607326311

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Uncertain Times by E. Paul Durrenberger Pdf

In this first-ever collection of labor anthropology from around the world, the contributors to Uncertain Times assert that traditional labor unions have been co-opted by neoliberal policies of corporate capital and have become service organizations rather than drivers of social movements. The current structure of labor unions facilitates corporations’ need for a stable labor force while reducing their power to prevent outsourcing, subcontracting, and other methods of undercutting worker security and union power. Through case studies from Switzerland, Israel, Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Greece, Sweden,Turkey, Brazil and Spain, the authors demonstrate that this process of neutering unions has been uneven across time and space. They also show that the potential exists for renewed union power based on more vociferous and creative collective action. These firsthand accounts—from activist anthropologists in the trenches as union members and staff, as well as academics analyzing policy, law, worker organizing, and community impact—illustrate the many approaches that workers around the world are taking to reclaim their rights in this ever-shifting labor landscape. Uncertain Times is the first book to use this crucial comparative, ethnographic approach for understanding the new rules of the global labor struggle and the power workers have to change thoserules. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology of work,and labor studies; labor union leadership; and others interested in developing innovative methods fororganizing working people, fomenting class consciousness, and expanding social movements. Contributors: Alpkan Birelma, Emma Braden, Maria Eugenia de la O, Christopher Kelley, Staffan Löfving, Gadi Nissim, Darcy Pan, Steven Payne, Alicia Reigada, Julia Soul, Manos Spyridakis, Christian Zlolniski

Author : Adrian Daub
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226136950

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Uncivil Unions by Adrian Daub Pdf

“What a strange invention marriage is!” wrote Kierkegaard. “Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership . . . or is it a little of all that?” Like Kierkegaard a few decades later, many of Germany’s most influential thinkers at the turn of the eighteenth century wondered about the nature of marriage but rejected the easy answers provided by biology and theology. In Uncivil Unions, Adrian Daub presents a truly interdisciplinary look at the story of a generation of philosophers, poets, and intellectuals who turned away from theology, reason, common sense, and empirical observation to provide a purely metaphysical justification of marriage. Through close readings of philosophers like Fichte and Schlegel, and novelists like Sophie Mereau and Jean Paul, Daub charts the development of this new concept of marriage with an insightful blend of philosophy, cultural studies, and theory. The author delves deeply into the lives and work of the romantic and idealist poets and thinkers whose beliefs about marriage continue to shape ideas about gender, marriage, and sex to the present day.

Author : Condoleezza Rice
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400856619

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The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1983 by Condoleezza Rice Pdf

This study of the tensions of military clientage focuses on Czechoslovakia to explore the ambiguous position of the military forces of East European countries and to show how the military's dual role as instrument of both national defense and the Soviet-controlled socialist alliance" fundamentally affects the interaction of military and political elites in Eastern Europe. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Giles Radice
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : 0043310737

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The Industrial Democrats by Giles Radice Pdf

Monograph recommending an increasing involvement for trade unions regarding the objective of workers participation in the UK - discusses shifts in management attitudes and employees attitudes relating to trade unionism, comments on the role of the tuc trade union federation, state intervention and labour legislation concerning collective bargaining and incomes policy, and discusses implication for the trade union structure and the labour political party. References.

Author : Stephen Poloz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735243910

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The Next Age of Uncertainty by Stephen Poloz Pdf

*WINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BUSINESS BOOK AWARD* *FINALIST FOR THE 2023 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER PRIZE* NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the former Governor of the Bank of Canada, a far-seeing guide to the powerful economic forces that will shape the decades ahead. The economic ground is shifting beneath our feet. The world is becoming more volatile, and people are understandably worried about their financial futures. In this urgent and accessible guide to the crises and opportunities that lie ahead, economist and former Governor of the Bank of Canada Stephen Poloz maps out the powerful tectonic forces that are shaping our future, and the ideas that will allow us to master them. These forces include an aging workforce, mounting debt, and rising income inequality. Technological advances, too, are adding to the pressure, putting people out of work, and climate change is forcing a transition to a lower-carbon economy. It is no surprise that people are feeling uncertain. The implications of these tectonic tensions will cascade throughout every dimension of our lives—the job market, the housing market, the investment climate, as well as government and central bank policy, and the role of the corporation within society. The pandemic has added momentum to many of them. Poloz skillfully argues that past crises, from the Victorian Depression in the late 1800s to the more recent downturn in 2008, give a hint of what is in store for us in the decades ahead. Unlike the purely destructive power of earthquakes, the upheaval that is sure to come in the decades ahead will offer unexpected opportunities for renewal and growth. Filled with takeaways for employers, investors, and policymakers, as well as families discussing jobs and mortgage renewals around the kitchen table, The Next Age of Uncertainty is an indispensable guide for those navigating the fault lines of the risky world ahead.

Author : Van-Nam Huynh,Yoshiteru Nakamori,Hiroakira Ono,Jonathan Lawry,Vladik Kreinovich,Hung T. Nguyen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783540776642

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Interval / Probabilistic Uncertainty and Non-classical Logics by Van-Nam Huynh,Yoshiteru Nakamori,Hiroakira Ono,Jonathan Lawry,Vladik Kreinovich,Hung T. Nguyen Pdf

This book contains the proceedings of the first International Workshop on Interval/Probabilistic Uncertainty and Non Classical Logics, Ishikawa, Japan, March 25-28, 2008. The workshop brought together researchers working on interval and probabilistic uncertainty and on non-classical logics. It is hoped this workshop will lead to a boost in the much-needed collaboration between the uncertainty analysis and non-classical logic communities, and thus, to better processing of uncertainty.

Author : Michael D. Robinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469633794

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A Union Indivisible by Michael D. Robinson Pdf

Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung in the balance during the fateful months surrounding the clash at Fort Sumter. During this period, Border South politicians revealed the region's deep commitment to slavery, disputed whether or not to leave the Union, and schemed to win enough support to carry the day. Although these border states contained fewer enslaved people than the eleven states that seceded, white border Southerners chose to remain in the Union because they felt the decision best protected their peculiar institution. Robinson reveals anew how the choice for union was fraught with anguish and uncertainty, dividing families and producing years of bitter internecine violence. Letters, diaries, newspapers, and quantitative evidence illuminate how, in the absence of a compromise settlement, proslavery Unionists managed to defeat secession in the Border South.

Author : William Schaw Lindsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Declaration of Paris
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103259883

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Manning the Royal Navy & Mercantile Marine, Also Belligerent and Neutral Rights in the Event of War by William Schaw Lindsay Pdf

Author : Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773635040

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Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, 2nd ed. by Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage Pdf

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to re-establish the labour movement’s political capacity to exert collective power in ways that foster greater opportunity and equality for working-class people has taken on a greater sense of urgency. Understanding the strategic political possibilities and challenges facing the Canadian labour movement at this important moment in history is the central concern of this second edition of Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada. With new and revised essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this edited collection assesses the past, present and uncertain future of Canadian labour politics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together the traditional electoral-based aspects of labour politics with analyses of newer and rediscovered forms of working-class organization and social movement-influenced strategies, which have become increasingly important in the Canadian labour movement, this book seeks to take stock of these new forms of labour politics, understand their emergence and assess their potential impact on the future of labour in Canada.

Author : Millett Granger Morgan,Max Henrion,Mitchell Small
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521427444

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Uncertainty by Millett Granger Morgan,Max Henrion,Mitchell Small Pdf

A risk analysis textbook which is intended as a basic text for students as well as a reference for practitioners and researchers. It provides a basis for policy analysis and draws upon a variety of case studies.