A very British institution is the Holiday Camp. At the heart of Pontin's Holidays was the entertainments team-the Bluecoats. When not running competitions and bingo, introducing cabaret acts, acting as compere for Glamorous Grandmother and Talent shows, and performing in the weekly Bluecoat Show, they mingled with guests-"campers"-telling jokes, being charming, and being pretty adept at the waltz and the foxtrot. An oft-asked question was "What do you do in the winter?" In 1982, two Bluecoats, one from Wales, one from Scotland, found themselves working together and falling in love. At the end of the season, separated, their love letters answered this question. In an age before mobile phones, texts, social networking, digital cameras, and the Internet, these letters explore the difficulties, frustrations, doubts, and occasional hilarity of loving at a distance and surviving Thatcher's Britain. The letters span the period from near the end of the 1982 season to the start of the 1984 season, and cover working at three Pontin's Holiday Camps.

The Harambee Movement in Kenya

Hospice chaplains have traditionally played a unique part in palliative care, providing human compassion and support to help ease life's final chapter. This book thoughtfully tackles the question at the heart of modern hospice chaplaincy: do chaplains have a distinctive role in an increasingly secular society? A comprehensive look at why and how this work needs to be done, each chapter will be a rich resource for hospice chaplains and anyone working within a hospice multi-disciplinary team. Taking the form of reflections by chaplains and other professionals, they examine the tension between sacred and secular space, explore how spiritual care works in a changing society, and look at what voice a chaplain has within the hospice team. Essential reading for chaplains, this insightful book reflects on the important work undertaken by hospice chaplaincies and explains why they continue to be a vital resource for end-of-life care.

This book is about a problem that had moved to the centre of international concern when it was first published in 1978 - how the UN System was to cope with the overwhelming volume of world wide economic and social tasks that had been placed upon it. The UN System comprises, in addition to the UN Organization itself, the Specialized Agencies like FAO, WHO and the World Bank, the regional commissions, the innumerable semi-independent programmes like the UN Development Programme, UNCTAD and the UN Environment Programme. There was a growing concern among governments and the intelligent public of developing and developed countries alike that the UN System stood in urgent need of greater internal cohesion and important structural reforms.

Explores issues of self-help, development and education among the Kamba of Kitui District.

A very British institution is the Holiday Camp. At the heart of Pontin's Holidays was the entertainments team-the Bluecoats. When not running competitions and bingo, introducing cabaret acts, acting as compere for Glamorous Grandmother and Talent shows, and performing in the weekly Bluecoat Show, they mingled with guests-"campers"-telling jokes, being charming, and being pretty adept at the waltz and the foxtrot. An oft-asked question was "What do you do in the winter?" In 1982, two Bluecoats, one from Wales, one from Scotland, found themselves working together and falling in love. At the end of the season, separated, their love letters answered this question. In an age before mobile phones, texts, social networking, digital cameras, and the Internet, these letters explore the difficulties, frustrations, doubts, and occasional hilarity of loving at a distance and surviving Thatcher's Britain. The letters span the period from near the end of the 1982 season to the start of the 1984 season, and cover working at three Pontin's Holiday Camps.

Gewerkschaften pr gen das Bild der deutschen Organisationslandschaft. In Ihrer Rolle als Arbeitnehmervertretung, stellt zun chst die Erwirkung bestm glicher Arbeitsbedingungen und Lohnstandards ihre Gesch ftsgrundlage dar. Dar ber hinaus ben Gewerkschaften aber auch einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf marktwirtschaftliche und demokratische Entscheidungsprozesse aus. Im demokratischen Diskurs, ermitteln und verdichten sie die wirtschaftlichen Bed rfnisse der B rger und transformieren diese in geeignete Politikvorschl ge. Salopp formuliert, fungieren Gewerkschaften als gesellschaftliches Stimmungsbarometers." In konomischer Hinsicht hingegen, leisten sie einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur betriebswirtschaftlichen Kostenreduzierung, indem sie Lohn- und Arbeitsbedingungen kollektiv mit den Arbeitgeberverb nden verhandeln. Folgerichtig erscheint es auf den ersten Blick plausibel, dass Gewerkschaften eine durchaus gemeinwohlf rdernde Funktion haben. Die realpolitische Debatte jedoch, vermittelt gegenw rtig ein ganz anderes Gewerkschaftsbild. Nicht selten werden die Gewerkschaften in der ffentlichkeit als Bremser," Fundamentalopposition" und Neinsager" gebrandmarkt. Zu realit tsfremd und r ckw rts gerichtet sei ihre Politik im gesellschaftlichen und konomischen Strukturwandel und blockiere damit die innovativen Reformkr fte Deutschlands. Ob diese Kritik zu Recht angebracht ist, soll Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie sein. In diesem Rahmen wird die Zweckdienlichkeit von Gewerkschaften anhand einer sozio konomischen Analyse auf den Pr fstand gestellt. Dazu werden insbesondere theoretische Modelle aus dem Forschungsgebiet der Neuen Institutionen konomik" (NI ) auf die angesprochene Problematik angewandt. Der Zielgedanke dabei ist, zun chst die Schwachstellen der Gewerkschaftspolitik offenzulegen. Darauf aufbauend werden dann institutionelle Anreizmechanismen erarbeitet, die es Gewerkschaften erm glichen, ihr innovatives und gemeinwohlf rderndes Potential wieder zur Reife zu

Many argue that the Lubicon, a small Cree nation in northern Alberta, have been denied their unalienable right to self-determination by the Canadian government. In a country such as Canada, some see the plight of the Lubicon people as an enduring reminder that certain democratic principles and basic freedoms are still kept from minorities, indigenous groups in particular. The Lubicon Lake Nation strives, through a critique of historically-constructed colonial images, to analyze the Canadian government's actions vis-a-vis the rights of the Lubicon people. Dawn Martin-Hill illustrates the power of indigenous knowledge by contrasting the words, ideas, and self-conceptualizations of the Lubicon with official versions of Lubicon history as documented by the state. In doing so, she offers a genuine sense of the gravity of their lived experiences as a cultural minority. By giving voice to the Lubicon, this study seeks to develop an exclusively indigenist framework in which the circumstances facing the people can be described and analyzed more accurately than they can using popular conceptions of native rights as put forth by the government. The Lubicon Lake Nation is a story of one culture and the pursuit of indigenous rights in Canada as told from the perspective of those who know the situation best, the Lubicon themselves.