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Part of the series The working class in American history;Working class in American history.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-247) and index.
• Prologue: The antebellum labor crisis: organized workers as a force in mid-nineteenth-century American history — Part I. Labor, liberty, and union — Workers and the crisis of nationhood: the social republic, peace, and the union — Continuities of class: the persistence of labor struggles — Organized labor goes to war: the fate of the old workers’ movement — Part II. Remaking the work force — The great slave strike: emancipation and race — The alienation of militancy: immigrants and the new white workingmen — The survival of moral suasion: gender, sisterhood, and paternalism — Part II. War, revolution, and labor — New militancy across the union: the strike waves and labor movements of 1863 — Richmond, New Orleans, Nashville: the diverse experience of urban labor in the south — The state power: workers and the new authorities, north and south — Part IV. Shaping the postwar order — The emergence of labor reform: class, citizenship, and politics — Toward a national labor presence: exploring the class limits of respectability — A peace of sorts: labor, liberty, and respectability — Epilogue: 1877: reconstructions of class.

Subjects:

• Working class — United States — History — 19th century.
• United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Social aspects.
• Working class — United States — Social conditions — 19th century.
• Labor movement — United States — History — 19th century.
• United States — Social conditions — 19th century.
• American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658
• Labor movement. fast (OCoLC)fst00990079
• Social aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst01354981
• Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01919811
• Working class. fast (OCoLC)fst01180418
• Working class — Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01180525
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• 1800 – 1899 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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Part of the series The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history;David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
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• Short sections of chapters 2 and 3 appeared previously in Stephen F. Austin’s views on slavery in early Texas, in This corner of Canaan : essays on Texas in honor of Randolph B. Campbell, edited by Richard McCaslin, Donald Chipman, and Andrew J. Torget (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2013). –Publisher’s description.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-341) and index.
• Introduction. Cotton, slavery, and empire — Part I. In the shadow of cotton — The Texas borderlands on the eve of Mexican independence — Part II. Bringing Mississippi to Mexico — American migration to Mexico, 1821-1825 — The politics of slavery in northeastern Mexico, 1826-1829 — Cotton, slavery, and the secession of Texas, 1829-1836 — Part III. Cotton nation and slaveholders’ republic — Creating a cotton nation, 1836-1841 — The failure of the slaveholders’ republic, 1842-1845 — Epilogue. Migrations and transformations — Appendix 1. The Texas slavery project — Appendix 2. Cotton prices and trade.

Subjects:

• Cotton trade — Texas — History — 19th century.
• Cotton trade — Mexico — History — 19th century.
• Slavery — Texas — History — 19th century.
• Slavery — Mexico — History — 19th century.
• Texas — History — Revolution, 1835-1836.
• Texas — History — Republic, 1836-1846.
• Mexico — History — Wars of Independence, 1810-1821.
• Mexico — History — 19th century.
• Revolution (Texas : 1835-1836) fast (OCoLC)fst01354582
• Wars of Independence (Mexico : 1810-1821) fast (OCoLC)fst01355308
• Mexico. fast (OCoLC)fst01211700
• Texas. fast (OCoLC)fst01210336
• 1800 – 1899 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• First produced as a videocassette in 1979.
• From the Medieval Video Collection –Disc surface.
• Videodisc label has date of 1974.
• Narrators, Charles Telling and Malcolm Cobley.
• DVD-Video All regions.
• Colour recording system: PAL.

Subjects:

• Monasteries.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Tapping into more than 33 years of small business expertise, the staff at Entrepreneur Media takes today’s entrepreneurs beyond opening their doors and through the first three years of ownership. This revised edition features amended chapters on choosing a business, adding partners, getting funded, and managing the business structure and employees, and also includes help understanding the latest tax and healthcare reform information and legalities.

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• New business enterprises — Management.
• Small business — Management.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 245 -253) and index.
• Introduction — Pragamatism and critical realism in organizational communication — A call from the moon : exemplary communication practices at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center — Studies of open communication and teamwork — Operating as a team and checklists : reducing complexity and risks in health care — Fighting fires with smart risks — Challenger, Columbia, and risk communication — Responses to Apollo, Challenger, Columbia: the decline of the space program — Our homeless neighbors : at risk and risky to the domiciled — Interorganizational risk communication : the Aviation Safety Reporting System, STOP, and Safe2Tell — The age of participation — Conclusion — Acknowledgments — Bibliography — Glossary — Index.

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• Communication in management.
• Teams in the workplace — Management.
• Risk management.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-284) and index.
• As the roaring twenties turned into the depressed thirties, southern farmers, far removed from the urban prosperity Americans had enjoyed during the 1920s heyday, found already difficult farming conditions greatly intensified by the onset of the Great Depression. Agricultural incompetence plagued the rural South through the misuse of land, depletion of natural resources, and a system of single-crop farming that failed to adequately provide for growing families on small farms, especially in the cotton-producing Southeast. Poverty and desperation came to define the farming communities of the rural South, both in reality and in Americans’ collective conscious. In The Farm Security Administration and Rural Rehabilitation in the South, Charles Kenneth Roberts traces the administrative and political history of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and reconciles the administration’s goals with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s overall vision for the New Deal. Roberts takes a grassroots approach to dissecting the FSA’s history. While other studies have focused on FSA photography or community building, or even policy making in terms of top-down government directives, Roberts focuses on the people and state governments who faced an immediate need to aid southern farmers within their own borders and to boost their states’ crumbling agricultural economic bases. Roberts focuses on rural rehabilitation as a key aspect of the FSA and defines the agency’s legacy not in terms of its failures but rather in terms of an idealistic program whose modest successes were ultimately too few to effect real change for southern farmers. Though Roosevelt failed to adequately recognize the plight of the southern farmer and political infighting hindered many of the administration’s goals, the creation of the FSA stands as one of the first efforts to provide sustained relief to struggling southern farmers. In light of other federal programs of the era, the FSA may seem like a mere footnote to the New Deal outside of its small but revered photography p
• This manuscript examines the Farm Security Administration’s political and administrative history and assesses the ideology of the institution against the overall goals of the New Deal. Roberts argues that the FSA’s operating procedure in the rural south was woefully inadequate, stemming from a misunderstanding of rural poverty from leading New Dealers, a bogged-down bureaucracy that offered contradictory advice to southern farmers, and ineffective on-the-ground efforts by FSA agents — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• United States. Farm Security Administration.
• Agriculture and state — Southern States — History — 20th century.
• Farms, Small — Government policy — Southern States — History — 20th century.
• Rural development — Southern States — History — 20th century.
• Rural poor — Southern States — History — 20th century.
• Southern States — Economic conditions — 20th century.
• United States. Farm Security Administration. fast (OCoLC)fst00517154
• Southern States. fast (OCoLC)fst01244550
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Map on lining papers.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-428) and index.
• Casus belli, 1890-1911: The great West Virginia coal rush The miners’ angel Frank Keeney’s valley A spirit of bitter war — The first mine war, 1912-1918: The Lord has been on our side The iron hand Let the scales of justice fall A new era of freedom — The second mine war, 1919-1921: A new recklessness To serve the masses without fear Situation absolutely beyond control There can be no peace in West Virginia Gather across the river Time to lay down the Bible and pick up the rifle — The Peace, 1922-1933: Americanizing West Virginia A people made of steel More freedom than I ever had.
• From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were 50,000 mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary miners’ angel, Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis verging on civil war that stretched from the creeks and hollows to the courts and the US Senate. In The Devil is Here in These Hills, celebrated labor historian James Green tells the story of West Virginia and coal like never before.

Subjects:

• Coal miners — West Virginia — History.
• Coal miners — West Virginia — Social conditions.
• Coal miners — Labor unions — West Virginia — History.
• Coal mines and mining — West Virginia — History.
• Strikes and lockouts — Coal mining — West Virginia.
• West Virginia Mine Wars, W. Va., 1897-1921.
• Coal Strike, W. Va., 1920-1921.
• United Mine Workers of America. District 17 — History.
• Labor movement — West Virginia — History.
• United Mine Workers of America. District 17. fast (OCoLC)fst01615088
• Coal Strike (West Virginia : 1920-1921) fast (OCoLC)fst01404326
• West Virginia Mine Wars (West Virginia : 1897-1921) fast (OCoLC)fst01755203
• West Virginia. fast (OCoLC)fst01205316
• 1897 – 1921 fast
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-346) and index.
• Prologue — Birth — Expansion — Opposition — Power — Reverses — Legacies — Epilogue.

Subjects:

• National Nonpartisan League — History.
• Insurgency — United States — History — 20th century.
• Social movements — United States — History — 20th century.
• Farmers — Political activity — United States — History — 20th century.
• National Nonpartisan League. fast (OCoLC)fst00516027
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289) and index.
• Adopting Black Caribbean workers — Subjugation of the braceros : life and work on the sugar estates — Social strategies of resistance : the disclosed and undisclosed lives of Black Caribbean braceros — The evolution and expression of a worker consciousness : Black Caribbean protest, resistance, and the Cuban labor movement — Garveyism without Garvey : a counter-ideology in the Black Caribbean communities — Multiple dominant ideologies : xenophobia and Cuban nationalism in the neocolonial context of Black Caribbean immigration — Epilogue.

Subjects:

• Sugar workers — Cuba — History.
• Foreign workers, Haitian — Cuba — History.
• Foreign workers, Jamaican — Cuba — History.
• Sugarcane industry — Social aspects — Cuba — History.
• Haitians — Cuba — Politics and government.
• Jamaicans — Cuba — Politics and government.
• Labor movement — Cuba — History.
• Protest movements — Cuba — History.
• Cuba — Economic conditions.
• Cuba — Emigration and immigration — Social aspects.

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Part of the series Global environmental change series;Global environmental change series.
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• Global environmental change programme.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-222) and index.
• 1. Pessimists and Optimists — 2. Population and Food Today — 3. Population and Food: Recent Trends — 4. Exploring the Future: Demand and Supply — 5. Exploring the Future: Potentials and Constraints — 6. Exploring the Future: Regional Vignettes — 7. Conclusions, Forecasts, Caveats, Tempered Hope — Appendix: Country Data and Food Security Index, around 1990.
• The world’s population is expected to grow by about 2.2 billion people between now and the year 2020. There is no doubt that feeding these extra mouths represents the principal challenge currently facing the global system of agricultural production and trade. Population and Food examines recent trends in food production and assesses the prospects for feeding humanity up to the twenty-first century. Synthesizing a mass of statistical data and drawing on case material from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, North America and the Middle East, the book suggests that food production in most world regions has kept ahead of population growth. Considering likely future trends in climate, land resources, water availability, trading patterns, farm inputs and technological innovation, the author argues that there should be no insurmountable problems in meeting the world’s food demand to the year 2020 and questions the current pessimism voiced about future food prospects.

Subjects:

• Food supply.
• Population.
• Food supply

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