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  • When the Air Became Important

    A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries

    by Janet Greenlees ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
    In When the Air Became Important, medical historian Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Greenlees contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part. Such ... Read more

    $56.09 CAD

  • Western Maternity and Medicine, 1880-1990

    by Janet Greenlees ...
    Series series Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
    The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Female Labour Power: Women Workers’ Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780–1860

    by Janet Greenlees ...
    Series series Studies in Labour History
    Britain and America were the first two countries with mechanised cotton manufacturing industries, the first major factory systems of production and the first major employers of women outside of the domestic environment. The combination of being new wage earners in the first trans-national industry and their public prominence as workers makes these women's role as employees significant; they set ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Financing Nonprofits

    Putting Theory into Practice

    by Woods Bowman, Arthur Brooks, Joseph Cordes, Charles M. Gray, Janet Greenlee, Mark Hager, Renee Irvin, Estelle James, Kevin M. Kearns, Elizabeth Keating, Anne Preston, Patrick Rooney, Michael Rushton, Richard Sansing, Roxanne Spillett, Richard Steinberg, Howard Tuckman, Robert Yetman ...
    Nonprofits often struggle financially, overwhelmed by the need to muster a complex combination of income streams that range from grants and government funding to gifts-in-kind and volunteer labor. Financing Nonprofits draws upon a growing body of scholarship in economics and organizational theory to offer a conceptual framework for understanding this diverse mix of financing sources. By applying ... Read more

    $84.19 CAD

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    Canada's First Prime Minister

    by Ged Martin ...
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    Shocked by Canada's 1837 rebellions, John A. Macdonald sought to build alliances and avoid future conflicts. Thanks to financial worries and an alcohol problem, he almost quit politics in 1864. The challenge of building Confederation harnessed his skills, and in 1867 he became the country's first prime minister.As "Sir John A.," he drove the Dominion's westward expansion, rapidly incorporating the ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Ruth, Roger and Me

    Debts and Legacies

    by Andrew Dean ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In 'Ruth, Roger and Me', Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought up in the shadow of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, those whom he calls ‘the children of the Mother of All Budgets’. Drawing together memoir, history and interviews, he explores the experiences of ‘discomfort’ and ... Read more

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  • Collective Courage

    A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

    by Jessica Gordon Nembhard ...
    In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Quakernomics

    An Ethical Capitalism

    by Mike King ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Other Canon Economics
    Combining commercial success with philanthropy and social activism, ‘Quakernomics’ offers a compelling model for corporate social responsibility in the modern world. Mike King explores the ethical capitalism of Quaker enterprises from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, testing this theory against those of prominent economists. With a foreword by Sir Adrian Cadbury, this book proves that ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Puritan Gift

    Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos

    by Kenneth Hopper, William Hopper, Russell L. Ackoff ...
    Where does the Protestant work ethic come from? And how did America achieve such dominance in management for so long? "The Puritan Gift" traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, turned a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It argues that the drive, energy and acceptance of ... Read more

    $38.89 CAD

  • Organizing America

    Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism

    by Charles Perrow ...
    American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technological forces in an all-efficient market, as some have argued? In this book, the first organizational ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • History+ for Edexcel A Level: Democracies in change: Britain and the USA in the twentieth century

    by Nick Shepley, Vivienne Sanders, Peter Clements, Robin Bunce ...
    Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Endorsed for EdexcelEnable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert narrative and extended reading, including bespoke essays from leading academics... ... Read more

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  • The Boundary Bargain

    Growth, Development, and the Future of City-County Separation

    by Zachary Spicer ...
    Series Book 4 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    City-county separation is a form of governance in which rural and urban areas are formally separated. Although these areas were once thought to be distinct because of their diverse sets of values, economies, labour trends, and ways of life, more recently, and in response to regional growth, governments have begun to design institutions that link the city to surrounding rural governments in order ... Read more

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