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Throughout its length from London to Glasgow via Crewe and Carlisle, with a loop through the West Midlands and spurs to Holyhead, Liverpool and Manchester, the West Coast Main Line has consistently provided interest for those many with more than a passing interest in trains and travel.This book outlines the history of the route, its physical characteristics and sets the scene for the various passenger and goods traffic flows that sustained it; it then details the arrangements for motive power and train working through the era of change that was 1957 to 1963.The level of interest - as evidenced daily by the presence at the lineside of hordes of young spotters and other observers - was particularly high at that time as processions of trains hauled by fine express passenger locomotives and those more suited to other traffic passed by. The book also goes 'behind the scenes' to provide insights into the daily and seasonal challenges of managing that section of a wider railway network, as directed by the varying terms of relevant legislation, and a government increasingly concerned to shape the railways for the changing needs of the public, industry and the economy.The book will be of particular interest to those who simply recall those days by the lineside, those with an interest in detailed arrangements to provide and maintain suitable motive power, those with an interest in how the railway served the needs of the nation and modelers who seek information.The book is illustrated with color and monochrome images and supported by maps.
High speed trains. --- Railroad bridges. --- Bridges --- Dynamics. --- Live loads.
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"The iconic leader of one of America's most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny's monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike and spurred him to expand his organizing activities to warehouse laborers and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers. Cherny examines the overall effectiveness of Bridges as a union leader and the decisions and traits that made him effective. Cherny also details the price paid by Bridges as the US government repeatedly prosecuted him for his left-wing politics. Drawing on personal interviews with Bridges and years of exhaustive research, Harry Bridges places an extraordinary individual and the ILWU within the epic history of twentieth-century labor radicalism"--
Debardeurs --- Mouvement ouvrier --- Stevedores --- Labor movement --- Syndicats --- Labor unions --- Bridges, Harry, --- International Longshore and Warehouse Union. --- International Longshore and Warehouse Union --- History. --- United States. --- E-books
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"Roads connect people but often isolate natural areas and populations. Animals attempting to cross roads face great risk and can endanger motorists. This book explains these problems and describes the emerging field of road ecology which is providing solutions and approaches that benefit global biodiversity and people" --
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"One of the nation's foremost urban historians traces the history of cooperative housing in New York City from the 1920s through the 1970sAs World War II ended and Americans turned their attention to problems at home, union leaders and other prominent New Yorkers came to believe that cooperative housing would solve the city's century-old problem of providing decent housing at a reasonable cost for working-class families. Working-Class Utopias tells the story of this ambitious movement from the construction of the Amalgamated Houses after World War I to the building of Co-op City, the world's largest housing cooperative, four decades later.Robert Fogelson brings to life a tumultuous era in the life of New York, drawing on a wealth of archival materials such as community newspapers, legal records, and personal and institutional papers. In the early 1950s, a consortium of labor unions founded the United Housing Foundation under the visionary leadership of Abraham E. Kazan, who was supported by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Robert F. Wagner Jr., and Robert Moses. With the help of the state, which provided below-market-rate mortgages, and the city, which granted tax abatements, Kazan's group built large-scale cooperatives in every borough except Staten Island. Then came Co-op City, built in the Bronx in the 1960s as a model for other cities but plagued by unforeseen fiscal problems, culminating in the longest and costliest rent strike in American history. Co-op City survived, but the United Housing Foundation did not, and neither did the cooperative housing movement.Working-Class Utopias is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the housing problem that continues to plague New York and cities across the nation"-- "As opposed to the co-ops and condominiums that we might think of today-buildings built by speculative developers, sold to well-to-do Americans, and conceived of as an integral part of the capitalist market-the country's first cooperative housing was conceived of as an effective way to address the problem of housing low- and moderate-income Americans. Built in the 1960s, Co-op City in the Bronx, New York, remains the one of the largest housing cooperatives in the world. Created by the United Housing Foundation, which for more than a decade had built and managed smaller cooperative housing around New York City, this "city" was designed to accommodate between 55,000 and 60,000 people, an extraordinary population. Working Class Utopias tells the story of Co-op City and the larger cooperative housing movement in New York City from the 1920s to the 1970s, when financial struggles between the UHF and Co-op residents proved to be the beginning of the end of non-profit cooperative housing not only in New York, but elsewhere in the United States. While Co-op City and other non-profit cooperatives still served tens of thousands of people, they were no longer viewed as a solution to the problem of housing working-class Americans. In examining this history, Robert Fogelson allows us to better understand the rise and fall of a once-promising idea-providing insight into the intractability of the housing problem still faced by cities around the country"--
Housing policy. --- Housing, Cooperative. --- Housing policy --- Co-op City (New York, N.Y.) --- History --- 1973 oil crisis. --- A Good School. --- Abraham Beame. --- Aftermath of World War II. --- Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. --- American Veterans Committee. --- Andrew Stein. --- Apartment. --- Architectural Forum. --- Arthur Levitt. --- Bear Stearns. --- Bond (finance). --- Borough president. --- Chairman. --- Charles Abrams. --- Co-op City, Bronx. --- Committee. --- Consolidated Edison. --- Cooperative. --- David Dubinsky. --- Debt limit. --- Demagogue. --- Dilapidation. --- District Council 37. --- Economics. --- Ed Koch. --- Eugene V. Debs. --- Eviction. --- Expense. --- Extended family. --- Fair Deal. --- Family income. --- Federal Housing Administration. --- Finance. --- Fiorello H. La Guardia. --- Foreclosure. --- George W. Bush. --- Gimbels. --- Grandparent. --- Great Society. --- Harry P. Cain. --- Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. --- Head of Household. --- Herman Badillo. --- Herman Jessor. --- House law. --- Housing Act of 1937. --- Housing authority. --- Housing cooperative. --- Housing development. --- Housing. --- How the Other Half Lives. --- Income. --- Institutional investor. --- Jack Newfield. --- Jacob Riis. --- Jimmy Carter. --- John F. Kennedy. --- John N. Mitchell. --- John W. Bricker. --- Late fee. --- Layoff. --- Lehman Brothers. --- Lewis F. Powell Jr. --- Lower East Side. --- MTA Bridges and Tunnels. --- Mortgage loan. --- Municipal Art Society. --- National Labor Relations Act. --- New York Bus Service. --- Percival Goodman. --- Political machine. --- Property tax. --- Public housing. --- Rent control in New York. --- Rent strike. --- Robert F. Wagner Jr. --- Robert Moses. --- Securities Act of 1933. --- Shortage. --- Slum. --- Slumlord. --- Socialist Party of America. --- State housing. --- Sweatshop. --- Tax. --- Tenement. --- The New York Times. --- The Price of Admission. --- Thomas E. Dewey. --- Trade union. --- Unemployment. --- United Workers Association. --- Urban renewal. --- Watergate scandal. --- Westbrook Pegler. --- William Jennings Bryan. --- William Zeckendorf. --- Window Dressing. --- Zionism.
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