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Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom provides a systematic historical
account of the British Shipbuilders Corporation, first looking at
this major industry under private enterprise, then under state
control, and finally back in private hands. The chapters trace the
evolution of public policy regarding shipbuilding, ship repair, and
large marine engine building through the tenures of radically
different Labour and Conservative governments, and through the
response of the board of the British Shipbuilders Corporation,
trade unions, and local management also. The book benefits from
comprehensive archival research and interviews from the 1990s with
leading players in the industry, as well as politicians,
shipbuilders, trade union leaders, and senior civil servants. This
authoritative monograph is a valuable resource for advanced
students and researchers across the fields of business history,
economic history, industrial history, labour history, maritime
history, and British history.
Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom provides a systematic historical
account of the British Shipbuilders Corporation, first looking at
this major industry under private enterprise, then under state
control, and finally back in private hands. The chapters trace the
evolution of public policy regarding shipbuilding, ship repair, and
large marine engine building through the tenures of radically
different Labour and Conservative governments, and through the
response of the board of the British Shipbuilders Corporation,
trade unions, and local management also. The book benefits from
comprehensive archival research and interviews from the 1990s with
leading players in the industry, as well as politicians,
shipbuilders, trade union leaders, and senior civil servants. This
authoritative monograph is a valuable resource for advanced
students and researchers across the fields of business history,
economic history, industrial history, labour history, maritime
history, and British history.
T-Rex Trying: The Unfortunate Trials of the Tyrant Lizard King -
the hilarious internet phenomenon, now a wickedly funny book.
Perfect for fans of Simon's Cat and The Book of Bunny Suicides, the
collected struggles of Hugh Murphy's ill-adapted predator is the
perfect stocking filler or gift for this Christmas. He might be top
predator in the Jurassic kingdom, but in modern life, T-Rex's
comically short arms doom him to hilarious failure. T-Rex has teeth
the size of bananas and eats Triceratops for breakfast, but when
it's time to brush his teeth . . . T-Rex is 12 metres long and 4
metres tall, but somehow he just can't change that light bulb . . .
And you can just forget about the vending machine. Containing
dozens of never before seen illustrations, T-Rex Trying: The
Unfortunate Trials of the Tyrant Lizard King is the cute, quirky
and laugh-out-loud funny collection of cartoons that will have
across the board appeal this Christmas. Hugh Murphy is a 28 year
old student at the University of Southern California, Ostrow School
of Dentistry. Hugh began his career as an artist selling
watercolour paintings of fish in order to pay for his applications
to dental school, but has always enjoyed drawing and painting in
his free time. He loves science, nature films, his wife, Sarah, and
shark week. T-Rex Trying began as a joke between Hugh and his
brother, and is his first book. Hugh and Sarah moved to Los Angeles
from Boston in August, 2010.
Maritime trade is the backbone of the world's economy. Around
ninety percent of all goods are transported by ship, and since
World War II, shipbuilding has undergone major changes in response
to new commercial pressures and opportunities. Early British
dominance, for example, was later undermined in the 1950s by
competition from the Japanese, who have since been overtaken by
South Korea and, most recently, China. The case studies in this
volume trace these and other important developments in the
shipbuilding and ship repair industries, as well as workers'
responses to these historic transformations.
This is the first book-length analysis of 20th-century shipbuilding
at the national level in Britain. It is based on the full breadth
of primary and secondary sources available, blending the records of
the UK government with those of the British Shipbuilding Employers
Federation and Shipbuilding Conference, as well as making use of a
range of records from individual yards, technical societies, and
the shipping trade press. Few industries attest to the decline of
Britain's political and economic power as does the near
disappearance of British shipbulding. On the eve of the First World
War, British shipbuilding produced more than the rest of the world
combined. But, by the 1980s, the industry that had dominated world
markets and underpinned British maritime power accounted for less
than 1 percent of total world output. Throughout its decline, a
remarkable relationship developed between the shipbuilding industry
and the UK government as both sought to restore the fortunes and
dominance of this once great enterprise. Authors: Lewis Johnman is
Principal Lecturer in history at the University of Westminster in
London. His previous books include The Suez Crisis (Routledge,
1997). Hugh Murphy is Senior Caird Research Fellow at the National
Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England.
This girl-loves-ghoul rock and roll Off Broadway musical is set in
the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down
by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen
for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the
romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste
dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee's heart.
He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee
to the prom. The principal orders him t
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