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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “beth tompkins bates”
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  • Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945

    by Beth Tompkins Bates ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy. Beth Tompkins Bates traces the rise of this new protest politics — which was grounded in making demands and backing them up ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

    by Beth Tompkins Bates ...
    In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters, newly arrived from the South, seized the economic opportunities offered by Ford in the hope of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Toyota Way : 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

    14 Management Principles From the World's Greatest Manufacturer

    by Jeffrey Liker ...
    How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industryIn factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the ... Read more

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  • Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results

    by Mike Rother ...
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  • How to Resist

    Turn Protest to Power

    by Matthew Bolton ...
    'This extraordinary book is the roadmap for a new kind of effective activism' - Brian Eno'This book is for people who are angry with the ways things are and want to do something about it; for people who are frustrated with the system, or worried about the direction the country is going. Maybe they've been on a march, posted their opinions on social media, or shouted angrily at something they've ... Read more

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  • Securitization Theory

    How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve

    Edited by Thierry Balzacq ...
    Series series PRIO New Security Studies
    This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve.Securitisation theory has become one of the key components of security studies and IR courses in recent years, and this book represents the first attempt to provide an integrated and rigorous overview of securitization practices ... Read more

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  • Self-Defense for Radicals

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    Radicals, feminists, environmentalists. Activists for animal rights, human rights, civil rights. There are plenty of rebels and dissidents putting their asses on the line. Conversely, there's never been a shortage of reactionaries seeking to repress such vision and passion.Learning how to fight and/or defend yourself is not the same as promoting belligerent, anti-social behavior. While talk of non ... Read more

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  • The Reckoning

    by David Halberstam ...
    This New York Times –bestselling history is "an immense, and immensely readable, saga of the American and Japanese auto industries" ( Boston Globe ).After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the Japanese auto industry in the decades after World War II. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam, with his signature p... ... Read more

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  • The Case for Sanctions Against Israel

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    Leading international voices argue for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.In July 2011, Israel passed legislation outlawing the public support of boycott activities against the state, corporations, and settlements, adding a crackdown on free speech to its continuing blockade of Gaza and the expansion of illegal settlements. Nonetheless, the campaign for boycott, divestment, and ... Read more

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  • Driving with the Devil

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    by Neal Thompson ...
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  • National Security and Double Government

    by Michael J. Glennon ...
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