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No longer dogs of war running ragtag armies, the new breed of
private soldiers operate their million-dollar contracts from
executive boardrooms worldwide. Whether they're ex-special forces,
CIA spooks or Foreign Legionnaires, you'll find them exchanging
gunfire with insurgents in Baghdad, patrolling government buildings
in Afghanistan, or spying on environmental protestors. The
lucrative contracts of the 'War on Terror' have made their plans
even more ambitious - to offer governments and corporations
discrete and well-trained private armies. These corporate soldiers
are part of the last great outsourcing - the privatisation of war.
War plc examines how we got here, how these companies operate, and
how close we are to letting them run our battlefields.
Today 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According
to a 2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The
new poor, however, are an even larger group than these official
figures suggest. They are more often than not in work, living
precariously and betrayed by austerity policies that make
affordable good quality housing, good health and secure employment
increasingly unimaginable. In The New Poverty investigative
journalist Stephen Armstrong travels across Britain to tell the
stories of those who are most vulnerable. It is the story of an
unreported Britain, abandoned by politicians and betrayed by the
retreat of the welfare state. As benefit cuts continue and in-work
poverty soars, he asks what long-term impact this will have on
post-Brexit Britain and-on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
1942 Beveridge report-what we can do to stop the destruction of our
welfare state.
You think that the recession isn't biting? Look again. You think
that the riots in August 2011 were unpredicted? Think again. 75
years after George Orwell's classic expose on life in the North,
Stephen Armstrong returns to find that many things have changed,
but not always for the better. Here he finds how young girls go
missing because of the intransigence of the benefits systems, how
fragile hope can be in the face of poverty and why the government
stands in the way of a community helping itself. In his journey,
taking in Bradford, Sheffield, Liverpool and Wigan, Armstrong
reveals a society at the end of its tether, abandoned by all those
who speak in its name.
Today 13 million people are living in poverty in the UK. According
to a 2017 report, 1 in 5 children live below the poverty line. The
new poor, however, are an even larger group than these official
figures suggest. They are more often than not in work, living
precariously and betrayed by austerity policies that make
affordable good quality housing, good health and secure employment
increasingly unimaginable. In The New Poverty investigative
journalist Stephen Armstrong travels across Britain to tell the
stories of those who are most vulnerable. It is the story of an
unreported Britain, abandoned by politicians and betrayed by the
retreat of the welfare state. As benefit cuts continue and in-work
poverty soars, he asks what long-term impact this will have on
post-Brexit Britain and - on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
1942 Beveridge report - what we can do to stop the destruction of
our welfare state.
In 2000 No Logo described a vision of rapacious corporations
building brands at the expense of impoverished third world
employees and ripped-off first world consumers. Now, only eight
years later, No Logo looks almost optimistic against the rise of a
new and insidious club of global billionaires who are buying up
once unfashionable industries like oil, steel, shipping and mining
from distressed third-world nations and formerly Communist powers.
Often backed by mafia money or dubious political connections, these
oligarchs have no shareholders and no home nation - they are the
sum total of their corporations. We are dependent on these men -
they fuelled our recent boom. They come to us for our light
taxation and our willingness to sell them class and influence via
an Eton education for their kids and cheaply bought honours. These
men are becoming ever richer as the rest of the world suffers
credit crunch and recession. They deal in the commodities that the
planet's economies need but which are becoming ever more scarce.
There are no national governments that can control or legislate
against them - they will simply move to another of their five or
six palatial homes. In this recession, we are all acutely aware of
our dwindling wealth and the spiralling prices of essentials. The
fact that these are in fewer and nastier hands than ever before has
rarely - if ever - been explained by the media. It's time for a
book that points out the power of these individuals and how they
are just the start of a deeply worrying trend. The buyers of
Tescopoly and No Logo have long been aware of overly powerful
corporations. The rise of men whose personal wealth and power far
outranks most of the companies in these books should alarm these
concerned citizens - and encourage them to find out more. This book
will paint a vivid picture using interviews, first hand experience,
expert comment and some futurology to give them the information
they need.
Engineering and Product Development Management is a practical guide
to the components of engineering management, using a holistic
approach. It will help engineers and managers understand what they
have to do to improve the product development process by deploying
new technology and new methods of working in concurrent teams. The
book takes elements from six well known and understood bodies of
knowledge and integrates them into a holistic approach: integrated
product development, project management, process management,
systems engineering, product data management, and organizational
change management. These elements are framed within an overall
enterprise-wide architecture. The techniques discussed in this book
work for both huge multinational organizations and smaller
enterprises. The emphasis throughout is on practical tools which
will be invaluable for engineers, managers, and consultants
responsible for project and product development.
This practical guide to the components of engineering management employs a holistic approach. It will help engineers and managers understand how to improve the product development process by deploying new technology and new methods of working in concurrent teams. The book integrates elements from six well-known and understood bodies of knowledge: integrated product development, project management, process management, systems engineering, product data management, and organizational change management. These elements are framed within an overall enterprise-wide architecture. The techniques discussed work for both huge multinational organizations and smaller enterprises. The emphasis throughout is on practical tools for engineers, managers, and consultants responsible for project and product development.
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