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The Theory and Practice of the Metric System of Weights and Measures (Paperback): Leone Levi The Theory and Practice of the Metric System of Weights and Measures (Paperback)
Leone Levi
R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Annals of British Legislation - Being a Classified and Analysed Summary of Public Bills, Statutes, Accounts and Papers, Reports... Annals of British Legislation - Being a Classified and Analysed Summary of Public Bills, Statutes, Accounts and Papers, Reports of Committees and of Commissioners, and of Sessional Papers Generally, of the Houses of Lords and Commons; Together With Account (Paperback)
Leone Levi
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes (Hardcover): Leone Levi Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes (Hardcover)
Leone Levi
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Annals of British Legislation - Being a Classified and Analysed Summary of Public Bills, Statutes, Accounts and Papers, Reports... Annals of British Legislation - Being a Classified and Analysed Summary of Public Bills, Statutes, Accounts and Papers, Reports of Committees and of Commissioners, and of Sessional Papers Generally, of the Houses of Lords and Commons; Together With Account (Hardcover)
Leone Levi
R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The History of British Commerce - And of the Economic Progress of the British Nation, 1763-1878 (Hardcover): Leone Levi The History of British Commerce - And of the Economic Progress of the British Nation, 1763-1878 (Hardcover)
Leone Levi
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Manual of the Mercantile Law of Great Britain and Ireland: Leone Levi Manual of the Mercantile Law of Great Britain and Ireland
Leone Levi
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
History of British Commerce: Leone Levi History of British Commerce
Leone Levi
R2,522 Discovery Miles 25 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes (Hardcover): Leone Levi Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes (Hardcover)
Leone Levi
R1,593 Discovery Miles 15 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of the British Nation 1763-1870: Leone Levi History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of the British Nation 1763-1870
Leone Levi
R2,522 Discovery Miles 25 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes - With some Facts illustrative of their Economic Condition, draw from Authentic and... Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes - With some Facts illustrative of their Economic Condition, draw from Authentic and official Sources (Hardcover)
Leone Levi
R1,605 Discovery Miles 16 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
International Commercial Law - Being the Principles of Mercantile Law of the Following and Other Countries, Viz.: England,... International Commercial Law - Being the Principles of Mercantile Law of the Following and Other Countries, Viz.: England, Scotland, Ireland, British India, British Colonies, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hans To (Hardcover)
Leone Levi
R1,144 Discovery Miles 11 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Law Of Nature And Nations - As Affected By Divine Law (Hardcover): Leone Levi The Law Of Nature And Nations - As Affected By Divine Law (Hardcover)
Leone Levi
R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of thee British Nation: Leone Levi History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of thee British Nation
Leone Levi
R2,522 Discovery Miles 25 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Back To The Front - A Memoir (Paperback): Leon Levy Back To The Front - A Memoir (Paperback)
Leon Levy
R265 R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Save R20 (8%) View more sellers Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Leon and his twin Norman were born in August 1929, the youngest of four children born to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. His father died when Leon was six; to heroic degree, his mother carried the family – financially, practically and emotionally – in her widowhood. Leon was an intensely bookish boy but left school aged sixteen to help makes ends meet through a series of jobs. Deeply affected by the events of the Second World War and the Holocaust, Leon was radicalised in the Hashomer Hatza’ir, a left-wing Zionist youth movement. He was seventeen when he joined the Communist Party and became a committed young activist.

In 1953, at the age of twenty-four, Leon became a full-time trade unionist. ‘It was a defining moment in my life story,’ he writes. ‘It gave practical form to my political beliefs; it also determined the shape and scope of my life. It transpired that I would spend the next six decades and more working in trade unions, industrial relations and mediation.’

A comrade in the trade union movement nicknamed Leon, TsabaTsaba – which means “here, there and everywhere”. Anyone who reads Leon’s account of his years as a full-time unionist will agree that the soubriquet was well earned. (Alongside trade union work, Leon was also committed to the remarkable Discussion Club, which he co-founded and ran throughout the 1950s; he was also secretary of the South African Peace Council from 1951 to 1961.) In the mid-1950s, he was part of a small group of progressive trade unionists who pushed for the formation of the first non-racial trade union federation in South Africa. These aspirations were realised in March 1955 with the launch of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). Later that year Leon was elected president and remained in that position for nine years. SACTU linked day-to-day concerns of workers with support for national liberation and the abolition of apartheid and was one of the five organisations which formed the Congress Alliance. As SACTU leader, Leon served on the committee that directed the activities of the Alliance; he was present at Kliptown when the Freedom Charter was adopted – and as SACTU president was one of the five original signatories of the Freedom Charter.

Political activism of this order came at a high price. Leon Levy was served with banning orders and arrested several times; he was Accused No 4 of the 156 people arrested and charged with treason, and from November 1958 was one of the final 30 (and with Helen Joseph one of only two whites) who faced charges until the trial was finally dismissed in March 1961. He was detained for five months during the 1960 State of Emergency. In May 1963 he was the first person to be detained under the notorious General Laws Amendment Act, known as the 90-day Act. Unable to continue his work he chose to go into exile in the United Kingdom. There, he studied politics, economics and industrial relations at Oxford – and then applied what he had learned in a series of positions in industrial relations. After 1994, he was determined to make the skills and knowledge that he had acquired available to a democratic South Africa – and he and his wife Lorna returned to the country of their birth in 1997. In a remarkable final phase of his career, Leon took office shortly after his 70th birthday as a full-time commissioner for the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration – and spent the next 19 years in this capacity.

The Mind of Wall Street - A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market (Paperback, New): Eugene... The Mind of Wall Street - A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market (Paperback, New)
Eugene Linden, Leon Levy
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As stock prices and investor confidence have collapsed in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and the dot-com crash, people want to know how this happened and how to make sense of the uncertain times to come. Into the breach comes one of Wall Street's legendary investors, Leon Levy, to explain why the market so often confounds us, and why those who ought to understand it tend to get chewed up and spat out. Levy, who pioneered many of the innovations and investment instruments that we now take for granted, has prospered in every market for the past fifty years, particularly in today's bear market. In The Mind of Wall Street he recounts stories of his successes and failures to illustrate how investor psychology and willful self-deception so often play critical roles in the process. Like his peers George Soros and Warren Buffett, Levy takes a long and broad view of the rhythms of the markets and the economy. He also offers a provocative analysis of the spectacular Internet bubble, showing that the market has not yet completely recovered from its bout of "irrational exuberance." The Mind of Wall Street is essential reading for all of us, whether we are active traders or simply modest contributors to our 401(k) plans, as volatile and unnerving markets come to define so much of our net worth.

History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of the British Nation 1763-1870: Leone Levi History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of the British Nation 1763-1870
Leone Levi
R2,061 Discovery Miles 20 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Law Of Nature And Nations - As Affected By Divine Law (Paperback): Leone Levi The Law Of Nature And Nations - As Affected By Divine Law (Paperback)
Leone Levi
R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Annals of British Legislation - Being a Classified and Analysed Summary of Public Bills, Statutes, Accounts and Papers, Reports... Annals of British Legislation - Being a Classified and Analysed Summary of Public Bills, Statutes, Accounts and Papers, Reports of Committees and of Commissioners, and of Sessional Papers Generally, of the Houses of Lords and Commons; Together With Account (Paperback)
Leone Levi
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes - With some Facts illustrative of their Economic Condition, draw from Authentic and... Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes - With some Facts illustrative of their Economic Condition, draw from Authentic and official Sources (Paperback)
Leone Levi
R1,156 Discovery Miles 11 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of thee British Nation: Leone Levi History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of thee British Nation
Leone Levi
R2,061 Discovery Miles 20 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes (Paperback): Leone Levi Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes (Paperback)
Leone Levi
R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
International Commercial Law - Being the Principles of Mercantile Law of the Following and Other Countries, Viz.: England,... International Commercial Law - Being the Principles of Mercantile Law of the Following and Other Countries, Viz.: England, Scotland, Ireland, British India, British Colonies, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hans To (Paperback)
Leone Levi
R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of British Commerce - And of the Economic Progress of the British Nation, 1763-1878 (Paperback): Leone Levi The History of British Commerce - And of the Economic Progress of the British Nation, 1763-1878 (Paperback)
Leone Levi
R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of British Commerce: Leone Levi History of British Commerce
Leone Levi
R2,061 Discovery Miles 20 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Manual of the Mercantile Law of Great Britain and Ireland (Paperback): Leone Levi Manual of the Mercantile Law of Great Britain and Ireland (Paperback)
Leone Levi
R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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