International trade often inspires intense conflict between workers and their employers. In this book, Adam Dean studies the conditions under which labor and capital collaborate in support of the same trade policies. Dean argues that capital-labor agreement on trade policy depends on the presence of 'profit-sharing institutions'. He tests this theory through case studies from the United States, Britain, and Argentina in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; they offer a revisionist history placing class conflict at the center of the political economy of trade. Analysis of data from more than one hundred countries from 1986 to 2002 demonstrates that the field's conventional wisdom systematically exaggerates the benefits that workers receive from trade policy reforms. From Conflict to Coalition boldly explains why labor is neither an automatic beneficiary nor an automatic ally of capital when it comes to trade policy and distributional conflict.
How did democratic developing countries open their economies during the late-twentieth century? Since labor unions opposed free trade, democratic governments often used labor repression to ease the process of trade liberalization. Some democracies brazenly jailed union leaders and used police brutality to break the strikes that unions launched against such reforms. Others weakened labor union opposition through subtler tactics, such as banning strikes and retaliating against striking workers. Either way, this book argues that democratic developing countries were more likely to open their economies if they violated labor rights. Opening Up By Cracking Down draws on fieldwork interviews and archival research on Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Turkey, and India, as well as quantitative analysis of data from over one hundred developing countries to places labor unions and labor repression at the heart of the debate over democracy and trade liberalization in developing countries.
The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam Wesley Dean argues that the Republican Party's political ideology was fundamentally agrarian. Believing that small farms owned by families for generations led to a model society, Republicans supported a northern agricultural ideal in opposition to southern plantation agriculture, which destroyed the land's productivity, required constant western expansion, and produced an elite landed gentry hostile to the Union. Dean shows how agrarian republicanism shaped the debate over slavery's expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the passage of the Homestead Act, and laid the foundation for the development of the earliest nature parks. Spanning the long nineteenth century, Dean's study analyzes the changing debate over land development as it transitioned from focusing on the creation of a virtuous and orderly citizenry to being seen primarily as a "civilizing" mission. By showing Republicans as men and women with backgrounds in small farming, Dean unveils new connections between seemingly separate historical events, linking this era's views of natural and manmade environments with interpretations of slavery and land policy.
In March 2002, Adam M. Dean, an attorney living and working in Charleston, West Virginia, traveled to Beijing and Shanghai, China, as a member of a People to People Ambassador Programs delegation to discuss internet commerce and international law with Chinese lawyers. People to People was founded by President Eisenhower in 1956 to foster understanding among nations through firsthand encounters between ordinary citizens. In his case, Adamas nine days in China impressed him so much that he used his experiences from the trip to craft his second collection of short stories. Adamas alter ego, aAdam Chapman, a travels to China to do a business deal. Being disabled, aAdama has his best friend, aEddie North, a with him for a more practical reason than just to have a traveling companion. The other complication aAdama has to deal with is due to the marvels of modern technology. Late one night, he receives a cell phone call from West Virginia. Itas aDawn, a the girl who broke his heart.
Do you find it hard to digest pages and pages worth of hadiths? Do you prefer to read short paragraphs rather than long ones? If thats the case then youll love this book of hadith. Created specifically for people who either dont have the time, concentration or motivation to read the larger books, this is perfect for memorisation. With over 50% sahih hadiths, this is a great first step on the path of knowledge. written with arabic and english this is tailored for the widest audience possible. May you all benefit from this book, In sh?' all?h
Adam M. Dean was born with cerebral palsy in 1975. He has lived his entire life with the effects of his cerebral palsya severe speech impediment and a lame right armin West Virginia. Adam started going on the internet while attending Marshall University in the mid-1990s. These three facets of Adams lifehis disability, the state that he loves, and his experiences on the internetcomprised the material from which he took his short stories. Adam gave the main character his disability as well as his name (although he cautions against thinking they are one and the same). Adam relied on West Virginia to supply the various backdrops to his stories such as Marshall University, the State Capitol Complex in Charleston, and the old house in Mingo County that Dawn inherited from her grandmother. Adam discovered his inspiration in his experiences on the internet. It was on the internet where he met the girl who inspired all eighteen of his stories, even the onethe only onein which Dawn isnt one of the characters.
At the end of AdamA¢a¬a¢s second book, The Gate of Heavenly Peace, A¢a¬AAdam Chapman,A¢a¬A a character Adam has largely based on himself, and A¢a¬ADawn,A¢a¬A the girl who is the love of his life, had made up and were finally going to be boyfriend and girlfriend. So, what happens when two people live happily ever after? ThatA¢a¬a¢s what this third book is about.
Recent scholarly trends and controversies in Gertrude Stein scholarship have focused on her politics and her friendships as well as on Stein the collector, the celebrity, the visual icon. Clearly, these recent examinations not only deepen our understanding of Stein but also attest to her staying power. Yet Stein’s writing itself too often remains secondary. The central premise of Primary Stein is that an extraordinary amount of textual scholarship remains to be done on Stein’s work, whether the well-known, the little-known, or yet unpublished. The essays in Primary Stein draw on recent interdisciplinary examinations, using cultural and historical contexts to enrich and complicate how we might read, understand, and teach Stein’s writing. Following Stein’s own efforts throughout her lifetime to shift the focus from her personality to her writing, these innovative essays turn the lens back to a wide range of her texts, including novels, plays, lectures and poetry. Each essay takes Stein’s primary works as its core interpretive focus, returning scholarly conversations to the challenges and pleasures of working with Stein’s texts.
In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building on the initial accomplishment of the magazine Blast, McLuhan’s subsequent Counterblast, and the network of artistic and intellectual relationships that flourished in Canadian vorticism, the contributors offer groundbreaking examinations of postwar Canadian literary culture, particularly the legacies of Sheila and Wilfred Watson. Intended primarily for scholars of literature and communications, Counterblasting Canada explores a crucial and long-overlooked strand in Canadian cultural and literary history. Contributors: Gregory Betts, Adam Hammond, Paul Hjartarson, Dean Irvine, Elena Lamberti, Philip Monk, Linda M. Morra, Kristine Smitka, Leon Surette, Paul Tiessen, Adam Welch, Darren Wershler.
It is the second Age of Man, the age before the world turned. The Empire of the Dragon-Blooded -- an invincible colossus -- stands astride the ruins of the First Age. For millennia, the scarlet Empress held the world in her steel grip. But the empress is no more, and the Realm spirals toward chaos and civil war. Its enemies descend -- demon princes, deathlords, skin-changing barbarians and the twisted and inscrutable Fair Folk hammer at the gates. In this time of darkness are reborn the solar Exalted, heroes of legend once slain by the Dragon-Blooded. Will these living legends herald the return of the Golden Age... or the end of creation? Expanded information on the spirit courts, the other Celestial Exalted, the society and powers of the Dragon-Blooded, and descriptions and statistics for a wide variety of magical devices and wondrous items, all packaged with a Storyteller's screen.
Travel along with Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin in this companion to the acclaimed sea - faring tales of Patrick O'Brian. For every novel in the series, you will find a chapter in Harbors and High Seas describing the plot's locale; providing background information on remote cities, key ports, and essential geographical features; and touching on significant events - without ever giving away the twists of the plot. This second edition features two completely new chapters, while the detailed maps of the first edition - depicting sea voyages, overland routes, battles, storms, landings, and other important events - have been updated to include the latest episodes in the Aubrey-Maturin novels, as well as illustrations by Geoff Hunt of Moahu and Dyak Island."--BOOK JACKET.
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