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London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City - A Hollow Legacy? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Phil Cohen, Paul Watt London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City - A Hollow Legacy? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Phil Cohen, Paul Watt
R3,233 Discovery Miles 32 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book brings together a body of new research which looks both backwards and forwards to consider how far the London 2012 Olympic legacy has been delivered and how far it has been a hollow promise. Cohen and Watt consider the lessons that can be learnt from the London experience and aptly apply them other host cities, specifically Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The Olympics are often described as a 'mega-event' in a way that assumes the host cities have no other existence outside, before or beyond the contexts imposed by the Games themselves. In terms of regeneration, the London 2012 Olympics promised to trigger a mega-regeneration project that was different to what had come before. This time the mistakes of other large-scale projects like London Docklands and Canary Wharf would be put right: top-down planning would be replaced by civic participation, communication and 'the local'. This edited collection questions how far the 2012 London legacy really is different. In so doing, it brings fresh evidence, original insights and new perspectives to bear on the post-Olympics debate. A detailed and well-researched study, this book will be of great interest to scholars of urban geography, sociology, urban planning, and sports studies.

Fighting Union Busters in a Carolina Carpet Mill - An Organizer's Memoir (Paperback): Phil Cohen Fighting Union Busters in a Carolina Carpet Mill - An Organizer's Memoir (Paperback)
Phil Cohen
R646 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R181 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 2017, Workers United/SEIU called veteran organizer Phil Cohen out of retirement to investigate and expose a union-busting plot by Mohawk Industries at a North Carolina carpet mill. His hard-hitting account chronicles the resulting labor dispute that rocked a Fortune 500 company. The organizer had to prove management was behind an illegal decertification petition and forced workers to sign using strong-arm tactics. Though terrified of retaliation, witnesses gradually agreed to testify before federal agents. Mohawk retained a high-powered union-busting attorney who appealed directly to ultra-conservative heads of the National Labor Relations Board, while Right to Work Committee lawyers framed the issue as a test case to revoke laws protecting employee rights. The union's only hope rested on presenting evidence too formidable for political bias to surmount. This memoir, infused with dry wit and insights into human nature, blows the lid off the nation's union-busting epidemic, thrusting readers into the tumultuous environment of a union hall in crisis.

London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City - A Hollow Legacy? (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017): Phil Cohen, Paul Watt London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City - A Hollow Legacy? (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Phil Cohen, Paul Watt
R1,862 Discovery Miles 18 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book brings together a body of new research which looks both backwards and forwards to consider how far the London 2012 Olympic legacy has been delivered and how far it has been a hollow promise. Cohen and Watt consider the lessons that can be learnt from the London experience and aptly apply them other host cities, specifically Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The Olympics are often described as a 'mega-event' in a way that assumes the host cities have no other existence outside, before or beyond the contexts imposed by the Games themselves. In terms of regeneration, the London 2012 Olympics promised to trigger a mega-regeneration project that was different to what had come before. This time the mistakes of other large-scale projects like London Docklands and Canary Wharf would be put right: top-down planning would be replaced by civic participation, communication and 'the local'. This edited collection questions how far the 2012 London legacy really is different. In so doing, it brings fresh evidence, original insights and new perspectives to bear on the post-Olympics debate. A detailed and well-researched study, this book will be of great interest to scholars of urban geography, sociology, urban planning, and sports studies.

On the Wrong Side of the Track? - East London and the Post Olympics (Paperback, New): Phil Cohen On the Wrong Side of the Track? - East London and the Post Olympics (Paperback, New)
Phil Cohen
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

On the Wrong Side of the Track draws on insights from the human sciences to challenge the arguments of Olympophiles for whom the Games can do no wrong as well as Olympophobes for whom they can do no right, using 2012 as a lens through which to examine underlying trends in contemporary culture. Part one sets the scene, exploring the changing social and physical landscape of East London from the inside - including voices from East London communities and the Olympic Park workers - and from the outside - in the imagination of artists, social commentators and reformers who made the area into an object of public fascination and concern. The second half of the book examines the strategies that were used to present an 'Olympian' vision of London to the world; it focuses on the rhetoric and reality of regeneration and the cultural politics of staging the event, pinpointing the differences that East London and the Olympics have made, and will continue to make, to one another. The book includes a photo essay on the Olympic site, original photographs by Jason Orton, Ian F. Rogers, Loraine Leeson and Peter Dunne, and John Claridge; artworks by Aldo Katayanagi, Jake Humphrey, and Jock McFadyen; and maps by William Dant and John Wallet. The cover is a specially commissioned photomontage by Peter Kennard and Tarek Salhany. The book also includes a reading guide and is supported by an online gallery of images and other Olympic materials for further study. Phil Cohen grew up with Steve Ovett and Jean-Paul Sartre as his teenage heroes and has been trying to get them into the same book ever since. He is author of Knuckle Sandwich: Growing up in the working class city (with Dave Robins); Rethinking the Youth Question; London's Turning: The making of Thames Gateway (with Mike Rustin); and Borderscapes: memory, narrative and Un/Common Culture (to be published in 2013). His poetry has been published by Critical Quarterly, Agenda, and Soundings. A memoir Reading Room Only: memoirs of a radical bibliophile is forthcoming. He is Emeritus Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of East London.

Reading Room Only, Memoir of a Radical Bibliophile (Hardcover): Phil Cohen Reading Room Only, Memoir of a Radical Bibliophile (Hardcover)
Phil Cohen
R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This memoir moves through Cohen's life in the counterculture, discussing book collecting, the pleasures of browsing and the need for bookshops.

The Stony Streets of Hell (Paperback): Daniel Lethlean Higson The Stony Streets of Hell (Paperback)
Daniel Lethlean Higson; Phil Cohen
R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Actually useful self-employment - How to escape the salary trap (Paperback): Phil Cohen Actually useful self-employment - How to escape the salary trap (Paperback)
Phil Cohen
R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Stuck in a job that you hate? This book gives you all the essential advice you need on how to escape - safely. Written by Phil Cohen MBA, distilled from 30 years experience of starting and running businesses, and helping hundreds of others make the transition from grind to grin. Tells you how to: * leave your job so that you can go back to it if you need to * be a freelancer and get paid at least 25% more per hour * buy a franchise or other business without getting ripped off * start your own business and avoid cash flow crises

Actually useful algebra (Paperback): Phil Cohen Actually useful algebra (Paperback)
Phil Cohen
R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For those of us who: * hated mathematics by the time we left school (even if we loved it at some point before that) * need to learn some algebra for a job, or for study * don't have a lot of time * aren't really interested in the history of algebra, or stories of famous mathematicians, and aren't ready to be convinced that algebra is fun Just what you need. No more, no less.

Actually Useful Accounting (Paperback): Phil Cohen Actually Useful Accounting (Paperback)
Phil Cohen
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cashflow problems kill more small businesses than anything else. But before you can tame cashflow you have to understand your business: and that means learning basic accounting. Covering everything you need to know from accruals to year-end, Actually Useful Accounting is written by one of the masters of clear explanation: Phil Cohen. Phil started and still runs two consulting firms in Sydney, Australia, and has 30 years experience of what it takes to make a business a success. Contains excellent advice on tax, insurance, invoicing, payment terms, as well as a clear and bulletproof explanation of accounting and its application to running a successful business.

Graphologies (Paperback): Phil Cohen Graphologies (Paperback)
Phil Cohen; Illustrated by Jean McNeil
R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Actually Useful B2B Selling (Paperback): Phil Cohen Actually Useful B2B Selling (Paperback)
Phil Cohen
R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Until you make your first sale, you don't have a business. And the level of sales that you achieve will determine whether your business flies or fails. This step by step guide to business-to-business selling for startup companies is written by Phil Cohen, a master of clear explanation who started and still runs three firms in Sydney, Australia. It covers everything you need to know about starting a successful business: how to choose your customers, how (and what) to sell to them, and even how to hire more salespeople.

New Directions in Radical Cartography - Why the Map is Never the Territory: Phil Cohen, Mike Duggan New Directions in Radical Cartography - Why the Map is Never the Territory
Phil Cohen, Mike Duggan
R1,398 Discovery Miles 13 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New Directions in Radical Cartography looks at the contemporary debates about the role of maps in society. It explores the emergence of counter-mapping as a distinctive field of practice, and the impact that digital mapping technologies have had on cartographic practice and theory. It includes original research, accounts of mapping projects and detailed readings of maps. The contributors explore how digital mapping technologies have sponsored a new wave of practices that seek to challenge the power that maps are commonly assumed to have. They document the continued vitality of analogue maps in the hands of artists and activists who are pushing the boundaries of what is mappable in different ways. New Directions in Radical Cartography draws on a rich body of mapping work that exists as part of community action, urban ethnography, environmental activism, humanitarianism, and public engagement.

New Directions in Radical Cartography - Why the Map is Never the Territory (Hardcover): Phil Cohen, Mike Duggan New Directions in Radical Cartography - Why the Map is Never the Territory (Hardcover)
Phil Cohen, Mike Duggan
R4,035 Discovery Miles 40 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

New Directions in Radical Cartography looks at the contemporary debates about the role of maps in society. It explores the emergence of counter-mapping as a distinctive field of practice, and the impact that digital mapping technologies have had on cartographic practice and theory. It includes original research, accounts of mapping projects and detailed readings of maps. The contributors explore how digital mapping technologies have sponsored a new wave of practices that seek to challenge the power that maps are commonly assumed to have. They document the continued vitality of analogue maps in the hands of artists and activists who are pushing the boundaries of what is mappable in different ways. New Directions in Radical Cartography draws on a rich body of mapping work that exists as part of community action, urban ethnography, environmental activism, humanitarianism, and public engagement.

Rethinking the Youth Question - Education, Labour, and Cultural Studies (Paperback): Phil Cohen Rethinking the Youth Question - Education, Labour, and Cultural Studies (Paperback)
Phil Cohen
R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Out of stock

Phil Cohen is a founding scholar in the study of British youth subculture and a key figure at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. In "Rethinking the Youth Question," essays representing twenty years of Cohen's work--beginning in 1969--are presented together for the first time. Some of these essays have not previously been published, others have been difficult to locate, and together they provide a precise conceptual history of the development of British cultural studies and a thoughtful contemplation of the significance of the entire cultural studies enterprise.
With a preface that contextualizes Cohen's essays for an American audience, "Rethinking the Youth Question" reflects his tenure as a community organizer and activist in inner-city London and includes ethnographic, theoretical, and historical studies of Britain's urban youth. Cohen offers an enlightening analysis of British educational policy, develops historical and structural accounts of generational and gendered divisions of labor, and discusses such topics as racism and the rise of the New Right. Also exploring broader questions such as the theoretical and sociological significance of youth as a category, this book is a model of useful methodology and engaged cultural reflection.
With empirical research that combines biographical, autobiographical, critical, cultural, and social elements, "Rethinking the Youth Question" is sure to impact debates surrounding the pedagogical value of cultural studies and the nature and future of this field in both the United States and Britain. This collection will be informative reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, sociologists, and others interested in the category of youth.


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