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"Jay Fox (1870-1961) was a journalist, intellectual, and labor militant, whose influence rippled across the country. In Writing Labor's Emancipation, historian Greg Hall traces Fox's unorthodox life to shed light on the shifting dynamics in US labor radicalism from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Radicalized as a teenager after witnessing the Haymarket tragedy, Fox embarked on a lifetime of organizing for labor unions, helping build anarchist communities (including Home, Washington), and, perhaps most notably, working as a writer. Thanks to his accessible writing style, insightful working-class perspective, and sharp wit, he became a popular and influential voice, often in dialogue with fellow anarchists such as Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons. Drawing on previously unused sources, Hall both explores Fox's life and shines a light on the utopians, revolutionaries, and union men and women with whom Fox associated and debated. Hall's research ultimately provides valuable knowledge of the lived experiences of working-class Americans and brings to light alternative visions for activism and social change"--

This book is an exploration of Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on virtue ethics and John Pearce's reformist and radical forms of social enterprise. Although Pearce's work has had academic impact, by his own admission, his ideas lack the necessary philosophical underpinnings. In Virtue and Social Enterprise: Ethical Alternatives to Capitalism, Geraldine Hall draws on MacIntyre to provide such underpinnings. Through a novel synthesis of the works of these two authors, a philosophical grounding is given to Pearce's radical form of social enterprise. In turn, MacIntyre's views on virtue are given greater scope to address global issues created by the capitalist paradigm. With a foreword by Kelvin Knight, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Alasdair MacIntyre, virtue ethics, business ethics and social responsibility. Geraldine Hall has previously taught at the University of South Wales as a Senior Lecturer and was a dissertation supervisor at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is currently a freelance writer.

"This book answers one of the most critical questions of our time, does the vast connectivity afforded by mobile and social media lead to more personal connection with one another? It offers an evidence-based account of the role of technology in close relationships that confronts such pressing questions as where face-to-face communication belongs in this digital age, whether social media is harmful to our well-being, and how online communication spills-over into our offline communication and relationships. Each chapter explores the positive and negative influences of media on relationships, coalescing into a balanced assessment of how technological advancement has altered our connections with each other. By zeroing in on communication with the most important people in our lives and tracing the changes in computer-mediated communication over time, Relating Through Technology focuses the conversation about media on its use in our everyday lives and relationships"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Timeline -- Background and Introduction: America by 2000 -- Exploring Popular Culture -- Chapter 1: Television -- Chapter 2: Sports -- Chapter 3: Music -- Chapter 4: Movies -- Chapter 5: Literature -- Chapter 6: Technology -- Chapter 7: Media -- Chapter 8: Fashion and Art -- Chapter 9: Controversies in Culture -- Chapter 10: Game Changers -- Conclusion: Legacy of the 2000s -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Everyday Miracles: The Study of Lived Religion -- CHAPTER TWO. "What Scripture Tells Me": Spontaneity and Regulation within the Catholic Charismatic Renewal -- CHAPTER THREE. Family Strategies and Religious Practice: Baptism and the Lord's Supper in Early New England -- CHAPTER FOUR. Practices of Exchange: From Market Culture to Gift Economy in the Interpretation of American Religion -- CHAPTER FIVE. Lived Religion and the Dead: The Cremation Movement in Gilded Age America -- CHAPTER SIX. Coffee, Mrs. Cowman, and the Devotional Life of Women Reading in the Desert -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Uses of Ojibwa Hymn-Singing at White Earth: Toward a History of Practice -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Submissive Wives, Wounded Daughters, and Female Soldiers: Prayer and Christian Womanhood in Women's Aglow Fellowship -- CHAPTER NINE. Golden Rule Christianity: Lived Religion in the American Mainstream -- CHAPTER TEN. Getting (Not Too) Close to Nature: Modern Homesteading as Lived Religion in America -- Contributors -- Index -- About the Editor

"Respatialising finance positions international financial centres as vital, but often overlooked, analytical lenses through which to understand the changing position of Chinese finance within the international financial system and specifically the internationalisation of its currency, the renminbi (RMB). In so doing, I develop a revitalised reading of financial centres that places questions of the state, politics and power more centrally in both their own internal dynamics and in their role in shaping global finance. Since the 2007-8 financial crisis, the growing internationalisation of the RMB has been one of the most significant development within global monetary relations. Indeed, in 2014, Deutsche Bank argued that the internationalisation of the RMB was the most significant development in international monetary affairs since the launch of the Euro in 1999 (Deutsche Bank, 2014). It refers to the relatively rapid and recent transformation in the geography of the Chinese currency facilitated through Chinese state support in the form of the People's Bank of China in particular. This geography has been transformed from a situation in the early 2000s in which flows of RMB in and out of mainland China were heavily restricted to one in which by July 2020, it was the fifth most commonly used currency for payments internationally behind the US dollar, sterling, the Euro and the Yen (Swift, 2020). Meanwhile, the growing international status of the RMB was also reflected in the International Monetary Fund including the RMB in its basket of special drawing rights (SDR) from October 2016 together with the US dollar, the euro, the yen and sterling. Kirschner (2014 p.220) provides a valuable summary of the early motivations and uncertainties surrounding RMB internationalisation."--

This book, first published in 1984, examines the 1941 siege of Tobruk and the experiences of the inexperienced Australian troops facing Rommel's successful armies. It looks at the follies as well as the bravery; humane acts from both sides, locked as they were in a brutal battle; the tactics of desert warfare and siege warfare; and the challenges both sides faced from fighting in desert conditions.

Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how "race" maps onto place across the globe, state, and street. In this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal contradictions of sovereignty and capitalism in the formation of street livelihoods in the urban margins. Hall locates The Migrant's Paradox on streets in the far-flung parts of de-industrialized peripheries, where jobs are hard to come by and the impacts of historic state underinvestment are deeply felt. Drawing on hundreds of in-person interviews on streets in Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, London, and Manchester, Hall brings together histories of colonization with current forms of coloniality. Her six-year project spans the combined impacts of the 2008 financial crisis, austerity governance, punitive immigration laws and the Brexit Referendum, and processes of state-sanctioned regeneration. She incorporates the spaces of shops, conference halls, and planning offices to capture how official border talk overlaps with everyday formations of work and belonging on the street. Original and ambitious, Hall's work complicates understandings of migrants, demonstrating how migrant journeys and claims to space illuminate the relations between global displacement and urban emplacement. In articulating "a citizenship of the edge" as an adaptive and audacious mode of belonging, she shows how sovereignty and inequality are maintained and refuted.

"The Subjectivities and Politics of Occupational Risk links restructuring in three industries to shifts in risk subjectivities and politics, both within workplaces and within the safety management and regulative spheres, often leading to conflict and changes in law, political discourses and management approaches. The state and corporate governance emphasis on worker participation and worker rights, internal responsibility, and self-regulative technologies are understood as corporate and state efforts to reconstruct control and responsibility for Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) risks within the context of a globalized neoliberal economy. Part 1 presents a conceptual framework for understanding the subjective bases of worker responses to health and safety hazards using Bourdieu's concept of habitus and the sociology of risk concepts of trust and uncertainty. Part 2 demonstrates the restructuring arguments using three different industry case studies of multiple mines, farms and auto parts plants. The final chapter draws out the implications of the evidence and theory for social change and presents several recommendations for a more worker-centred politics of health and safety. The book will appeal to social scientists interested in health and safety, work, employment

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Coming Together to Work Collectively -- Chapter 3: Struggling Towards a Unified Organisation -- Chapter 4: Emerging from wartime conditions -- Chapter 5: Impact nationally and internationally -- Chapter 6: Farming anxieties and a more favourable Government -- Chapter 7: The weakening relationship with the UK and market diversification -- Chapter 8: Growing farmer influence on Government -- Chapter 9: Domestic matters for meat, dairy and agriculture in the 1950s and 1960s -- Chapter 10: Wool: prosperity then reform -- Chapter 11: Impact of the European Economic Community (EEC) -- Chapter 12: Encouraging Government support for farming -- Chapter 13: Subsidisation keeps growing -- Chapter 14: Subsidies at their maximum and their death -- Chapter 15: A comprehensive strategy for agricultural economics and food policy -- Chapter 16: Enforced change in farming practices -- Chapter 17: Reforming their own organization -- Chapter 18: Producer Boards' reform -- Chapter 19: Reform to reduce farming costs -- Chapter 20: Environment -- Chapter 21: Water Quality - 'clean and green' versus 'dirty dairying' -- Chapter 22: Farming and Māori, New Zealand's indigenous people -- Chapter 23: Difficult times in the new millennium -- Chapter 24: Increasing pressures on farming from the outside world -- Chapter 25: Trade Agreements -- Chapter 26: Future Agricultural Economics and Food Policy?