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  • The Torrent

    A True Story of Heroism and Survival

    by Amanda Gearing ...
    Six years on from Queensland's tragic 'inland tsunami', this new edition of The Torrent reconnects with the survivors at the heart of the catastrophe. On January 10, 2011, after weeks of heavy rain and as floodwaters began to overwhelm much of southeast Queensland, a 'wall of water' hit Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley. The Torrent tells the extraordinary stories of survival and loss that emerged ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disrupting Investigative Journalism

    Moment of Death or Dramatic Rebirth?

    by Amanda Gearing ...
    Series series Disruptions
    This book makes the case for the enormous potential embodied in investigative journalism if reporters collaborate in the digital sphere and engage with emerging techniques and technologies.Bringing together personal narratives from investigative journalists who have successfully found, verified and published stories using social media platforms and Web based communications, Disrupting ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Organizing Amazon

    Building Worker Power under Conditions of Fragmentation, Precarity and Regimentation

    by Tom Vickers, Rachel Fagan, Amanda Gearing, Garfield Hylton, Louveza Iqbal, Ceferina Floresca Javier, Paramanathan Pradeep, Stuart Richards, Tom Rigby, Ferdousara Uddin0 ...
    Narrated by Tom Vickers ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 13 min

    Between August 2022 and July 2024, GMB Union membership at Amazon’s BHX4 Coventry warehouse skyrocketed, with 37 days of strike action resulting in a 28.5% pay rise. Yet despite this, the union narrowly lost a ballot that would have forced Amazon to grant formal recognition.Based on ethnographic research and reflective essays from worker-leaders and organizers, this book offers a rich case study ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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