Poverty: the forgotten Englishmen (A Penguin special)

Politics & Social Sciences

Coates, Ken

Social Sciences

Penguin

On October 23, 1918, the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Sophia left Skagway, Alaska, on its last run of the season to Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle. A storm rose and at 2 a.m. it ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef. Rescue vessels were quickly assembled, but the storm worsened and they were forced to take shelter themselves. By the following morning, the Princess Sophia had sunk to the bottom of the Lynn Canal, taking all of its passengers--a significant cross-section of the population of the Yukon and Alaska--with it. This volume examines the impact of this loss on a society that, with the end of the gold rush, was already in decline.

The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her

History

Morrison, Bill

Americas

Oxford University Press

Trade Unions and Politics

The relationship between the British trade union movement and political organizations and activity, notably the Labour Party, is a subject of continuing controversy and interest. New legislation, based on the Conservative election manifesto, promises to make far-reaching changes in this relationship. This book, written by two people with a long involvement in and support for the trade union movement, puts the links between trade unions and the Labour Party, the state of trade union political contributions and the scope of the changing relationship between the unions - the effects both of economic conditions on collective bargaining and the weakening of trade union organization in a number of ways, and of measures taken by the government aimed at changing the unions' practices and their political status.

Politics & Government

Blackwell*publishers

Blackwell Pub.

An "ABC of industrial democracy" which sets our their proposals for a new unionism, replacing over-bureaucratic structures.

The New Unionism: The Case For Worker's Control

Business & Money

Economics

Peter Owen Publishers

In December 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and seemed to be poised for their most audacious attack yet - the invasion of North America via its least populated region, the Far Northwest. No one doubted that this threat was real, certainly not the U.S. military command. In an act of speedy co-operation, unmatched before or since, the governments of Canada and the U.S.A. agreed to the military's request to build a road, post-haste, across the vast wilderness of the North, so that troops and armaments could be moved rapidly from the continent's heartland to its vulnerable edge in Alaska. Ten thousand soldiers under the command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rushed north to push a pioneer road 1,500 miles long through the forests and mountains and over the muskeg, the permafrost, and the many icy rivers of the Far Northwest. Fast on their heels came an equally large "army" of civilians - eager to do their bit for the war effort and to earn the colossal wages offered - to build a permanent highway in the pioneer road's muddy tracks. Seven and a half months later the highway was ready for war duty, just as the threat that initiated it collapsed. But their effort was not wasted. The Alaska Highway gave the towns of Fairbanks, Big Delta, Whitehorse, and Fort St. John road access to the South for the first time, and many smaller communities sprang up along its path to service the truckers and tourists who plied the highway. For immediately after the war, driving the highway became a popular vacation for intrepid tourists. Despite the great improvements to the road that have been made over the years, the highway has lost none of its appeal nor any of the romance that surrounded its beginnings. In 1992 the Alaska Highway turns fifty, and Ken Coates has written North to Alaska to commemorate the work of those men and women, soldiers and civilians, who endured the bitter cold, the blackflies, the mud, and the murderous mosquitoes to build the road and defend their homeland. The Alaska Highway remains the world's most remarkable highway - remarkable for the speed in which it was built, its military origins, the binational co-operation it symbolizes, and for the spectacular natural beauty and rich history of the land through which it passes. Today it still offers the unique adventure of a 1,500-mile drive through the mysterious North into the land where men once moiled for gold.

North to Alaska: Fifty Years on the World's Most Remarkable Highway

MCCLELLAND STEWART

North to Alaska

Travel

The indigenous population, Coates stresses, has not been passive in the face of expansion by whites. He argues that Native people have played a major role in shaping the history of the region and determining the relationship with the immigrant population. They recognized the conflict between the material and technological advantages of an imposed economic order and the desire to maintain a harvesting existence. While they readily accepted technological innovations, they resisted the imposition of an industrial, urban environment. Contemporary land claims show their long-standing attachment to the land and demonstrate a continued, assertive response to non-Native intervention.

Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973 (Volume 11) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

McGill-Queen's University Press

The Marshall Decision and Native Rights: The Marshall Decision and Mi'kmaq Rights in the Maritimes (Volume 25) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)

In The Marshall Decision and Native Rights Ken Coates explains the cross-cultural, legal, and political implications of the recent Supreme Court decision on the Donald Marshall case. He describes the events, personalities, and conflicts that brought the Maritimes to the brink of a major confrontation between Mi'kmaq and the non-Mi'kmaq fishers in the fall of 1999, detailing the bungling by federal departments and the lack of police preparedness. He shows how political, business, and Mi'kmaq leaders in the Maritimes handled the volatile situation, urging non-violence and speaking out against racism, in contrast to the way federal and regional leaders have responded in other parts of the country. Legal victories such as Marshall, argues Coates, are a double-edged sword that provide greater legal clarity but expand the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in Canada. Coates recounts the history of Mi'kmaq-white contact in the region and considers the impact of native rights on natural resources, showing that the costs will be borne mainly by rural Canadians. By placing the local and regional reaction to the Marshall decision in the broader historical, national, and international context of indigenous political and legal rights The Marshall Decision and Native Rights shows how little Canada has learned from three decades of First Nations legal conflicts and how far the country is from meaningful reconciliation.

In The Marshall Decision and Native Rights Ken Coates explains the cross-cultural, legal, and political implications of the recent Supreme Court decision on the Donald Marshall case. He describes the events, personalities, and conflicts that brought the Maritimes to the brink of a major confrontation between Mi'kmaq and the non-Mi'kmaq fishers in the fall of 1999, detailing the bungling by federal departments and the lack of police preparedness. He shows how political, business, and Mi'kmaq leaders in the Maritimes handled the volatile situation, urging non-violence and speaking out against racism, in contrast to the way federal and regional leaders have responded in other parts of the country. Legal victories such as Marshall, argues Coates, are a double-edged sword that provide greater legal clarity but expand the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in Canada. Coates recounts the history of Mi'kmaq-white contact in the region and considers the impact of native rights on natural resources, showing that the costs will be borne mainly by rural Canadians. By placing the local and regional reaction to the Marshall decision in the broader historical, national, and international context of indigenous political and legal rights The Marshall Decision and Native Rights shows how little Canada has learned from three decades of First Nations legal conflicts and how far the country is from meaningful reconciliation.

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Poverty: the forgotten Englishmen (A Penguin special)

The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her

Trade Unions and Politics

Trade Unions and Politics

The New Unionism: The Case For Worker's Control

North to Alaska: Fifty Years on the World's Most Remarkable Highway

North to Alaska

Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973 (Volume 11) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

The Marshall Decision and Native Rights: The Marshall Decision and Mi'kmaq Rights in the Maritimes (Volume 25) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)

The Marshall Decision and Native Rights: The Marshall Decision and Mi'kmaq Rights in the Maritimes (Volume 25) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)