Historian and novelist John Tully tells the story of the previously relatively unknown Silvertown strike, arguing for its significance to both the labour and socialist movements. Tully presents the Silvertown Strike as a source of inspiration for today's workers, in London and around the world, who continue to struggle for better workplaces.
Draws on contemporary accounts and a wealth of studies to produce this history of the Cuyahoga Valley. Tully pays special attention to how settlers' notions of private property--and the impulse to own and develop the land--clashed with more collective social organizations of American Indians. He also documents the ecological cost of settlement, long before heavy industry laid waste to the region. --From publisher description.
"A wonderfully fascinating social history of rubber's terrors (including slavery and Nazi extermination camps) and pleasures (condoms, among others). Tully is an insightful historian and he narrates this centuries-long account of a commodity as essential to the modern world as oil or steel with great passion and compassion." Greg Grandin, author, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City; professor of history, New York University "John Tully has done an extraordinary job tying together the disparate elements-historical, geographical, sociological, anthropological of the rubber industry. He provides a deft treatment of a complicated and typically overlooked natural (and synthetic) resource that remains fundamental to the world economy. I strongly recommend it. John Borsos, vice-president, National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." He might well have been describing the long, grim history of rubber. From the early stages of primitive accumulation to the heights of the industrial revolution and beyond, rubber is one of a handful of commodities that has played a crucial role in shaping the modern world, and yet laboring people around the globe have every reason to regard it as "the devil's milk." All the advancements made possible by rubber industrial machinery, telegraph technology, medical equipment, countless consumer goods have occurred against a backdrop of seemingly endless exploitation, conquest, slavery, and war. But, as John Tully reminds us, the vast terrain of rubber production has always been a site of struggle, and the oppressed who toil closest to "the devil's milk" in all its forms have never accepted their immiscration without a fight
Facing a death sentence in a Tasmanian gaol, Geordie Stubbs recounts his experiences through the tumultuous events of the early 20th century. His struggle for justice is complicated by the prejudice he endures due to his color. As he reflects on his life, the narrative unfolds around his friends' efforts to prove his innocence, highlighting themes of racial injustice and the fight against societal biases.
Vocabulary of 300 words. This reader has an accompanying cassette.
Eine abenteuerliche Erzählung aus dem Leben der Menschen in Südamerika vor der Ankunft der Europäer. Tio-Cada ist der Erwählte, er soll auf der Plattform der Pyramide den Göttern als Opfer dargebracht werden. Unversehrt wiedergeboren wird er anschließend das sichtbare Zeichen der göttlichen Allmacht sein. Langsam beginnt Tio-Cada zu zweifeln. Seine Wiedergeburt ist sicher. Wird jedoch das Wunder tatsächlich das Werk der Götter sein?
