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Protecting Abortion Access

The Experiences of Clinic Volunteers From Roe to Dobbs

By: Shara Crookston

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Protecting Abortion Access

The Experiences of Clinic Volunteers From Roe to Dobbs

By: Shara Crookston

In a post Roe society where abortion is becoming increasingly difficult to access, abortion clinic escorts ensure patient safety and comfort. This qualitative study highlights the challenges and motivations escorts experienced at clinics across the country both pre and post Dobbs. Drawing on interviews with clinic escorts, the author examines how increasing abortion restrictions, lack of police support, massive clinic closures, and upticks in anti-abortion protesting from Christian organizations impact the clinic escorts’ work and their perceived ability to keep the sidewalks of their clinics peaceful for patients seeking abortion care.

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229

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Lexington Books

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1666935255

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9781666935257

Why Face-to-Face Still Matters

The Persistent Power of Cities in the Post-Pandemic Era

By: Reades, Jonathan,Crookston, Martin

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Why Face-to-Face Still Matters

The Persistent Power of Cities in the Post-Pandemic Era

By: Reades, Jonathan,Crookston, Martin

Why do businesses still value urban life over the suburbs or countryside? This accessible book makes the case for Face-to-Face contact, still considered crucial to many 21st century economies, and provides tools for thinking about the future of places from market towns to World Cities.

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252

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Policy Press

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1529216001

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9781529216004

The Pitmen's Requiem

By: Peter Crookston

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The Pitmen's Requiem

By: Peter Crookston

Peter Crookston's book offers a beautifully written journalist's account of a Durham mining village and the Great Northern Coalfield woven around the life of Robert Saint, the composer of Gresford, a brass band composition commemorating an earlier mining disaster in which 256 workers died. Crookston brings his formidable observational qualities and writing skills as a journalist to produce a gripping narrative with utterly compelling characters and a heart-rending culmination in the demise of the mining industry under assault by Thatcher. The story is told in a gentle, unpretentious way, frequently giving voice to the characters themselves, many of whom the author knew personally or got to know in preparing the book. Apart from capturing a critical moment in a disappearing world, the book offers a vantage point from which to reflect on our own culture, and what we have lost in post-industrial Britain: the loss of community which did so much to sustain and nurture those miners in their desperate plights. This is as much a history of culture and place as much as it is biography, a book that is at once an elegy and a tribute

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195

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McNidder and Grace Limited

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0857160699

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9780857160690

Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?

A New Future for the Cottage Estates

By: Martin Crookston

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Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?

A New Future for the Cottage Estates

By: Martin Crookston

Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian online Faced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden suburbs that already exist? Over the first six decades of the twentieth century, councils across Britain created a new and optimistic form of housing – the cottage estates of ‘corporation suburbia’. By the early 1960s these estates provided homes with gardens for some 3 million mainly working-class households. It was a mammoth achievement. But, because of what then happened to council housing over the later years of the century, this is not very often appreciated. In Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow, Martin Crookston suggests that making the most of the assets which this housing offers is a positive story – it can be positive for housing policy; for councils and their ‘place-making’ endeavours; and for the residents of the estates. This is especially important when all housing market and development options are so constrained, and likely to remain so for the next decade or more. Following an examination of what the estates of ‘corporation suburbia’ are and what they are like, there follow chapters on specific examples from different parts of the country, on how they are affected by the workings of the housing market, and then – not unconnectedly – on how attitudes to this socially-built stock have evolved. Then the final chapters try to draw out the potentials, and to suggest what future we might look for in corporation suburbia in the twenty-first century.

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241

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Routledge

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1317821475

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9781317821472

Why Face-to-Face Still Matters

The Persistent Power of Cities in the Post-Pandemic Era

By: Reades, Jonathan,Crookston, Martin

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The Persistent Power of Cities in the Post-Pandemic Era

By: Reades, Jonathan,Crookston, Martin

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Policy Press

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Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?

A New Future for the Cottage Estates

By: Martin Crookston

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A New Future for the Cottage Estates

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Protecting Abortion Access

Protecting Abortion Access

Why Face-to-Face Still Matters

Why Face-to-Face Still Matters

The Pitmen's Requiem

The Pitmen's Requiem

Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?

Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?

Why Face-to-Face Still Matters

Why Face-to-Face Still Matters

Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?

Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?

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