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Award-winning playwright and short film-maker, Craig Bolland, assembles a collection of idealists and loners, misfits and dreamers whose interconnecting stories form pieces of the whole, a fabric of inner-urban life.

This interpretation of labour organisations and politics of the working people of the British Caribbean relates their struggle to important national, regional and global factors. The chief focus is on the period between 1934 and 1954, when a series of labour rebellions gave rise to trade unions and political parties, and led to democratic reforms, self-government, and eventually independence.

Excerpt from Select Bills in Eyre: A. D. 1292-1333, Edited for the Selden Society Further, we remember that a bill before Parliament was originally in the form of a complaint and prayer for remedy. It is hard to find in 'bulla anything of the meaning which men of the fourteenth century found in, and expressed by, bill.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenb...

Excerpt from The Iron-Founder: A Comprehensive Treaties on the Art of Moulding, Including Chapters on Core-Making, Loam, Dry-Sand, and Green-Sand Moulding, Also Crystallization, Shrinkage, and Contraction of Cast-Iron, and a Full Explanation of the Science of Pressures in Moulds, Added IN writing this book the principal object of the author has always been to help such of his fellow-craftsmen as, by force of circumstances, have been shut out ...

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Excerpt from The Iron Founder Supplement: A Complete Illustrated Exposition of the Art of Casting in Iron, Also, the Founding of Statues, The Art of Taking Casts, Pattern Modelling, Useful Formulas and Tables The founding Of Chilled Car-wheels is fully ex plained and suitably illustrated, as also is the production Of Malleable-iron Castings, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. ...

Excerpt from The Encyclopedia of Founding and Dictionary of Foundry Terms: Used in the Practice of Moulding, Together With a Description of the Tools, Mechanical Appliances, Materials, and Methods Employed to Produce Castings in All the Useful Metals and Their Alloys, Including Brass, Bronze, Steel, Bell, Iron, and Type Founding The ordinary dictionaries and encyclopaedias of general literature, and even those of the arts and sciences, contai...

Excerpt from The Railways and the Nation: Problems and Possibilities The spectacle of a splendidly equipped, partially utilised, and but moderately profitable means of transit like the British railway system, running through miles of fertile but empty country, and connecting congested cities and towns where people lack the means of healthy physical subsistence, is one among many examples of national waste which may be attributed to the lack o...

Excerpt from The General Eyre: Lectures Delivered in the University of London at the Request of the Faculty of Laws This course of lectures on the General Eyre follows on very naturally after the previous course on the Year Books, for the Year Books form the chief source of what we know about the eyres. It is in them alone that we can see the eyres actually alive and at work. The old legal writers, Bracton and the rest, have, indeed, coldly p...

Excerpt from The Year Books: Lectures Delivered in the University of London at the Request of the Faculty of Laws Very few words are necessary by way of prefaced this little volume. In the first place I want to thank the University of London for giving me, on the suggestion, I believe, of Mr G. H. J. Hurst - palmam qui meruit ferat - the very welcome opportunity of doing something towards making those priceless storehouses of many kinds of le...

There is one major factor that explains business actions that has thus far escaped thorough exploration. That factor is clout, or as it is more broadly understood, power. Those with clout in the business organizations make the decisions and influence what the business does. Yet the origins and uses of clout are hidden. Everyone wants to know more about this inner world as clout is still largely unrecognized in studies of corporate culture. W...

Excerpt from State Railways Mean More Employment: 20 Per Cent Lower Freight Rates, 50 Per Cent Lower Fares, 100 Per Cent More Journeys In railway matters we are at the parting of the ways. The era of competition is passing and combination on a growing scale is being introduced. Bearing in mind that whatever savings railway companies effect by combination must add to the price which the State will have to pay if it eventually takes over the ra...

Based on an extensive national survey of workers and four separate industry-specific surveys, Generations and Work will examine and provide answers to the most common issues and problems of multi generational work by assessing differences and commonalities between and among generations.

Based on an extensive national survey of workers and four separate industry-specific surveys, Generations and Work will examine and provide answers to the most common issues and problems of multi generational work by assessing differences and commonalities between and among generations.

This breakthrough book provides students and managers alike with an understanding of the concepts and tools of strategy.

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