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Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable people who lived in
England in the late Tudor period. Born a daughter of a relatively
humble Midlands family, she was married and widowed four times, on
each occasion raising her social status until she ultimately became
the Countess of Shrewsbury. An enthusiast of fine buildings, she
left behind Hardwick Hall and Chatsworth House as prime examples of
Elizabethan prodigy houses. She also left important genetic
legacies in the form of her descendants, and is an ancestress of
much of the British aristocracy for the last few hundred years.
Whilst she lived at a time when the laws and customs of the land
made it difficult for women to exercise any real form of economic
or social independence, Bess succeeded in acquiring a personal
fortune which not only made her the second wealthiest woman in the
kingdom after Queen Elizabeth herself, but for generations after
her served as the financial bedrock upon which her descendants
would continue to build, in some cases right up to the present day.
Hetty Howland Green (1834-1916), born Hetty Howland Robinson, and
known in her later years as "The Witch of Wall Street," was born in
the whaling town of New Bedford, Massachusetts to Quaker parents.
This biography charts Hetty Green's extraordinary ascent up the
pyramid of wealth to a point where, in the earliest years of the
twentieth century, she was being identified as the richest woman in
America. The first in a series of brief biographies of significant
tycoons, this is an insight into the life and methods of one of the
earliest and most influential business women in the US. It examines
the source of her wealth, and her method of building upon it. It
also profiles those who helped or thwarted her along the way.
The Roaring Twenties, jazz music, Hollywood glamour - the end of
World War I ushered in a golden age for America, with a booming
stock market and rampant property speculation. It seemed as if -
with President Harding and then President Coolidge in charge - the
good times would never end. In marked contrast were the fortunes of
many European countries, which were struggling to repay war debts
while the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were plunging Germany
into economic catastrophe. Later, with Herbert Hoover as President,
the US markets continued to climb, even though some investors began
to sell, sensing trouble ahead. The stock market crash came in
October 1929, and America slid into deep depression. Against a
background of bank failures, industrial decline, rural poverty, and
unemployment, there was an outbreak of protests, strikes, and
riots. Hoover was swept from power in 1932, and it fell to the new
President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to revive America's fortunes with
a number of ground-breaking new programs which made up the New
Deal. Dark Realities covers this turbulent period in America's
history. The book introduces the key figures of this time period
and reveals the impact that the Great Depression had on the
American people. *** "Written to be accessible to lay readers and
historians alike....a straightforward chronicle of some of the
bleakest years in America's history. Dark Realities is an excellent
contribution....highly recommended especially for public and
college library collections." - Midwest Book Review, Library
Bookwatch, March 2013, American History Shelf
John Jacob Astor - Cornelius Vanderbilt - Andrew Carnegie - John D.
Rockefeller - Henry Ford - Joseph P. Kennedy - Even today, long
after their deaths, the names of these six men continue to be
associated with wealth and power. When they were alive, they
dominated their worlds as few men had done before, and few have
done since. Now in paperback, this book contains the life stories
of six of the richest men who ever lived in America. Their lives
offer us windows into ways of life that most of us can only imagine
- an opportunity to glimpse times when laws, attitudes, prejudices,
and opportunities were very different from today. Their
achievements - financial, political, and social - continue to
affect us to this day, for good or ill. Additionally, their
mistakes still offer important lessons about the acquisition, use,
and abuse of wealth and power. And had they not lived, the history
of America - and the world - might have been very different indeed.
Jean Paul Getty (1892-1976) - a powerful, oil tycoon who was at one
point the richest man in the world, with a private life described
as 'bizarre beyond belief', but what drove him and shaped the man
he was? While there is no shortage of books, documentaries and
online material focusing on the tabloid-filling content, this book
takes a chronological approach, and examines the four key
relationships which shaped his life: parents, business, money,
women and art. Marriage and parenthood served to punctuate that
life. Living in the shadow of his father, who never fully trusted
in Paul's maturity, judgement and moral values, seems to have
driven him to strive for ever more financial success. Getty was
viewed as a skilled, shrewd and talented businessman, but in his
personal life, he left behind him a string of failed marriages and
difficult relationships with many of his children and
grandchildren. The author looks at the difficulties Getty had in
interacting with others on a personal level, and why many have
portrayed Getty as living a solitary, even lonely life, despite
being surrounded by guards, staff, visiting business colleagues and
female companions. Instead he suggests that Getty's fortune was to
serve as the central foundation of his life. His need to create,
defend and expand that fortune - all of which he successfully did -
is key to understanding his life.
The Roaring Twenties, jazz music, Hollywood glamour - the end of
World War I ushered in a golden age for America, with a booming
stock market and rampant property speculation. It seemed as if -
with President Harding and then President Coolidge in charge - the
good times would never end. In marked contrast were the fortunes of
many European countries, which were struggling to repay war debts
while the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were plunging Germany
into economic catastrophe. Later, with Herbert Hoover as President,
the US markets continued to climb, even though some investors began
to sell, sensing trouble ahead. The stock market crash came in
October 1929, and America slid into deep depression. Against a
background of bank failures, industrial decline, rural poverty, and
unemployment, there was an outbreak of protests, strikes, and
riots. Hoover was swept from power in 1932, and it fell to the new
President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to revive America's fortunes with
a number of ground-breaking new programs which made up the New
Deal. Dark Realities covers this turbulent period in America's
history. The book introduces the key figures of this time period
and reveals the impact that the Great Depression had on the
American people. *** "Written to be accessible to lay readers and
historians alike....a straightforward chronicle of some of the
bleakest years in America's history. Dark Realities is an excellent
contribution....highly recommended especially for public and
college library collections." - Midwest Book Review, Library
Bookwatch, March 2013, American History Shelf
John Jacob Astor. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Andrew Carnegie. John D.
Rockefeller. Henry Ford. Joseph P. Kennedy. Even today, long after
their deaths, the names of these six men continue to be associated
with wealth and power. When they were alive, they dominated their
worlds as few men had done before, and few have done since. These
are the life stories of six of the richest men who ever lived in
America. Their lives offer us windows into ways of life for over
two centuries that most of us can only imagine - an opportunity to
glimpse times when laws, attitudes, prejudices, and opportunities
were very different from today. Their achievements - financial,
political, and social - continue to affect us to this day, for good
or ill. Additionally, their mistakes still offer important lessons
about the acquisition, use, and abuse of wealth and power. And had
they not lived, the history of America - and the world - might have
been very different indeed.
In the UK, a cascade of Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of
Employment) Regulations/TUPE cases - notably and centrally upon the
service provision change, as well as the subsequent enactment of
the Collective Redundancies and the TUPE (Amendment) Regulations
2013 by the UK government - have made necessary this fourth edition
of TUPE: Law & Practice. The new 2013 Amendment Regulations, in
force from January 2014, are intended to clarify the issues raised
by recent cases and also to reduce the burdens on employers of
small enterprises in the UK. This guide provides analysis of: the
scope to "service provision changes" (i.e.
outsourcing/contracting-out and in), as well as clarification of
the Regulation 3 * key changes relating to transfer dismissals and
changes to terms and conditions * pensions obligations under TUPE *
clarified 'joint' consultation rights * the confusing application
of TUPE where the transferor is insolvent. Lawyers, politicians,
policymakers, HR practitioners, as well as academics, will find
that this book brings them up to speed on TUPE. This book aims to
keep pace with these changes, providing practical advice and
cutting edge analysis.
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