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The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial
institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury
items have engaged the work of historians, economists, social
scientists, and international relations experts. Based on
previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in
Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States,
this book is the first in English to tell the story of the
formation of one of the world’s main strongholds of diamond
production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The
history of the diamond-cutting industry, characterized by a
long-standing Jewish presence, is discussed as a social history
embedded in the international political economy of its times; the
genesis of the industry in Palestine is placed on a broad continuum
within the geographic and economic dislocations of Dutch, Belgian,
and German diamond-cutting centers. In providing a micro-historical
and interdisciplinary perspective, the story of the diamond
industry in Mandate Palestine proposes a more nuanced picture of
the uncritical approach to the strict boundaries of ethnic-based
occupational communities. This book unravels the Middle-eastern
pattern of state intervention in the empowerment of private capital
and recasts this craft culture’s inseparability from
international politics during a period of war and transformation of
empire.
Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive
occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded
so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated
in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project
goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop
a genuinely comparative international perspective over a long
historical period. Volume 1 contains studies of 22 major ports
worldwide. Built around an agreed framework of issues, these 'port
studies' examine the type of workers who dominated dock labour,
their race, class and ethnicity, the working conditions of dockers
and the role of government as employer, arbitrator and supporter.
The studies also detail how dockers organized their labour,
patterns of strike action and involvement in political
organizations. The structure of the port city is also outlined and
descriptions given of the waterside environment. These areas of
investigation form the basis for a series of 11 thematic studies
which comprise Volume 2. Drawing on the information provided in the
port studies, these essays identify important aspects and recurring
themes, and explain how and why particular cases diverge from the
rest. The final chapter of the book synthesizes the various
approaches taken to offer a model which suggests several
configurations of dock labour and presents suggestions for future
research. This major scholarly achievement represents the most
sustained attempt to date to provide a comparative international
history of dock labour. An annotated bibliography completes this
essential reference work.
Strike-action has long been a notable phenomenon in Israeli
society, despite forces that have weakened its recurrence, such as
the Arab-Jewish conflict, the decline of organized labor, and the
increasing precariousness of employment. While the impact of
strikes was not always immense, they are deeply rooted in Israel's
past during the Ottoman Empire and Mandate Palestine. Workers
persist in using them for material improvement and to gain power in
both the private and public sectors, reproducing a vibrant social
practice whose codes have withstood the test of time. This book
unravels the trajectory of the strikes as a rich source for the
social-historical analysis of an otherwise nation-oriented and
highly politicized history.
The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial
institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury
items have engaged the work of historians, economists, social
scientists, and international relations experts. Based on
previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in
Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States,
this book is the first in English to tell the story of the
formation of one of the world's main strongholds of diamond
production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The
history of the diamond-cutting industry, characterized by a
long-standing Jewish presence, is discussed as a social history
embedded in the international political economy of its times; the
genesis of the industry in Palestine is placed on a broad continuum
within the geographic and economic dislocations of Dutch, Belgian,
and German diamond-cutting centers. In providing a micro-historical
and interdisciplinary perspective, the story of the diamond
industry in Mandate Palestine proposes a more nuanced picture of
the uncritical approach to the strict boundaries of ethnic-based
occupational communities. This book unravels the Middle-eastern
pattern of state intervention in the empowerment of private capital
and recasts this craft culture's inseparability from international
politics during a period of war and transformation of empire.
David De Vries is an Associate Professor at the Department of
Labor Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He studied history at
the LSE and Warwick University. A social historian, his primary
research interests are modern labor and business history of
Palestine and Israel. His publications include Idealism and
Bureaucracy in 1920s Palestine: The Origins of 'Red Haifa' (1999,
in Hebrew) and Dock Workers: International Explorations in Labor
History, 1790-1970 (2000, co-edited). Currently he is writing on
strikes in Israeli history and is involved in a project on new
perspectives in the business history of the modern Middle East.
Every Christian is sent by Jesus to "be Jesus" to everyone
everywhere. Missional Living is all about aligning your heart with
Jesus' missionary heart. Six-Word Lessons to Discover Missional
Living gives you practical ways to help you incarnationally display
the gospel to those around you, make disciples who make disciples,
and multiply churches all over the place. ...-... -- "Dave has been
coaching church planters for a long time. He knows what is
important and what is strategic. In this book of missional axioms,
he passes on some of that wisdom in a memorable way. A good
distillation of key ideas." Alan Hirsch, author of The Forgotten
Ways, and co-author of Untamed and Shaping of Things to Come
...-... -- "Dave DeVries encourages a new generation to take up the
mantle of Christian living. In one-hundred brief lessons he defines
and envisions what it means to live missionally." Ed Stetzer,
President of LifeWay Research ...-... -- "Can we change the world
with six words or less? Dave DeVries gives it a try. Learning to
speak in a concise and yet meaningful manner is a developing art
form. In the day of twitter and facebook we are all learning how to
say something important in 140 characters or less. The wisdom
shared in this book took a whole lot longer to learn than it takes
to read, so take advantage of this book " Neil Cole, author of
Organic Church and Church 3.0, and Founder/Director of Church
Multiplication Associates ...-... -- "I love any book or tool that
makes complex issues simple and inspiring. Dave is a practitioner's
sage and has dropped some well needed nuggets that any pastor or
missional leader needs." Hugh Halter, co-author of AND and Tangible
Kingdom
The Football Bowl Subdivision or FBS (formerly Division I-A) is the
only American NCAA team sport to determine its champion without a
playoff. Despite strong sentiment in favor of a playoff over the
current Bowl Championship Series system, and admittance from
top-level NCAA and FBS administrators that a playoff would increase
overall revenues, the BCS/bowl system remains favored by the
majority of university presidents and conference commissioners.
This study examined one possible reason there is not a playoff. To
achieve this, the revenues of the current system were compared to
conservative revenue estimates of a proposed playoff, likely
administered by the NCAA, similar to the Division I Basketball
Championship. The goal was to determine how the current bowl
relationships and contracts factor into university president's
resistance to implement a playoff. The findings showed that while
more overall revenue could be earned by a playoff, institutions
could have less available unrestricted revenue to use at their
discretion.
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