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Night trains: the rise and fall of the sleeper
"Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot). In Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers, the intriguing characters and exotic atmospheres have survived. Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post, the sun rising over the Riviera, or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night, Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail. By tracing the history of the sleeper trains, he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself. The original sleepers helped break down national barriers and unify the continent. Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity - and otherwise - as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times'"--Dust jacket
Social pacts, unemployment, and EMU macroeconomic policy
In: EUI working papers RSC, 2000,32
World Affairs Online
What does globalization have to do with the erosion of welfare states?: Sorting out the issues
In: ZeS-Arbeitspapier 1/1997
Short Swoop, Long Line
In: The Yale review, Band 108, Heft 2, S. 70-92
ISSN: 1467-9736
The Origins of Chinese Special Forces, 1922–1935
In: Special operations journal, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 37-43
ISSN: 2372-2657
Eurozone Economic Governance
In: European Social Models From Crisis to Crisis, S. 20-48
Reshaping educational experience by volunteering in the community: Language learners in the real world
In: Intercultural communication, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 1-15
ISSN: 1404-1634
This paper views tertiary language learners' gaining a sense of cultural belonging and an awareness of intercultural communication through three prisms: (i) the metaphor of "investment", (ii) the notion of "community of practice" and (iii) the concept of "imagined community". Applied to environments of real world learning, specifically the volunteer sector, the notion of "community" holds a key to reshaping the cultural education experiences for participants in language learning programs, including learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL). This paper examines facets of "community" to contextualise the experiences of learners in a project where advanced EAL learners undertook volunteer work as part of a cultural learning curriculum within a Bachelor of Arts in EAL at a tertiary institute in New Zealand. This project gave learners access to "communities of practice" (Lave & Wenger 1992; Wenger 1998), providing contexts where instructors can reshape learners' higher education experiences by identifying cultural learning opportunities within the volunteer sector of the community. In educational research, the properties of community include insider support, common goals, shared discourse and membership (Rovai 2002a). The occurrence of such features in a student's volunteer placement depends on the degree of "investment" (Norton 2000; Pittaway 2004) participants have in individual and community goals. In the project, the journalised reflections of the participating migrants, refugees and international students reveal the cultural and ontological value of community work. This paper uses the concepts of real and imagined communities to theorise the participants' investments in their learning, presents qualitative findings from the project, and describes a range of benefits for EAL learners' learning in community. The paper concludes that investing in community can prepare learners for their future and imagined communities while reshaping significant aspects of cultural learning.
Bureaucracy, Power, and Threat: Unions and Strikes in The United States, 1990-2001
In: Mobilization: An International Quarterly, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 217-237
The bureaucratization of many social movements has generated controversy among scholars and activists alike. While there is considerable evidence that formalized social movement organizations (SMOs) tend to be successful, critics maintain that such actors invariably shift resources away from protest, reducing their disruptive potential. The current research seeks to reorient this debate by introducing the concept of threat as an integral, but overlooked, dimension of protest. Specifically, I hypothesize that the costs associated with collective action will motivate formalized SMOs to leverage the threat of protest to achieve new gains. The empirical case is made using data from a sample of labor unions and their strike activity from 1990-2001, a period of growing acrimony between organized labor and firms that is particularly well suited for analyzing threat. The findings highlight the role of threat in movement challenges and how it interacts with the broader environment within which the SMO is embedded.
Authority in Contention
In: Mobilization: the international quarterly review of social movement research, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 454-455
ISSN: 1086-671X
Effective project management
In: The journal of strategic information systems, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 337-338
ISSN: 1873-1198
Labour, the Keynesian Welfare State, and the Changing International Political Economy
In: Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, S. 60-74
Political Constraints on Economic Strategies in Advanced Industrial Societies
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 323-354
ISSN: 1552-3829
In Sweden, a union proposal for socialism [to begin transferring corporate ownership from stockholders to workers by transfer of new shares to "wage earners funds" set up and administered by the unions]
In: Working Papers for a New Society, Band 5, S. 46-58