Authors:Joel H. Amernic, Russell Craig,
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Keywords: leadership, corporate, language, speak, ceo
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 2006-02-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0773530371
ISBN-13: 9780773530379

In a post-Enron world in which corporate accountability and ethical behavior have become increasingly important, Joel Amernic and Russell Craig consider the implications of the corporate language of leadership. Through a rhetorical analysis of the speeches and letters of chief executive officers, annual reports to shareholders, press releases, and company newsletters and websites, Amernic and Craig show that CEOs are elitist and exclusionary propagators of an often biased stream of discourse."CEO-Speak" explores the metaphors and persuasive strategies used by corporate leaders at Enron, Micros

Authors:Larry S. Bourne, David F. Ley,
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Keywords: canadian, geography, geographers, series, association, cities, changing, social
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1993-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0773509720
ISBN-13: 9780773509726

This volume demonstrates the richness and diversity of the social landscapes and communities in Canadian urban centres, emphasizing changes which occurred in the period from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s.

Author: Brian Wilson
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Keywords: twenty, first, century, rave, youth, flight, chill, subcultures, fight
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0773530614
ISBN-13: 9780773530614

Rave is one of the first distinct and significant youth subcultures to emerge since the early days of punk rockers and skinheads. A middle-class culture renowned for drug use, computer-generated "techno" music, and all-night dance parties, rave has been described as everything from a drug cult to a neo-hippie community. Brian Wilson uses his ethnographic research on rave during the mid and late 1990s to discuss the ways in which young people participate in social and cultural life at the turn of the millennium. "Fight, Flight, or Chill" explores the extent to which raver youths’ experien

Author: Barbara Ann Roberts
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Keywords: gertrude, richardson, biography, feminist, world, reconstructed
Number of Pages: 387
Published: 1996-06
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0773513949
ISBN-13: 9780773513945

This biography of Gertrude Richardson (1875-1946) examines her key role in the development of feminism and pacifism in England and Canada and her accomplishments as both an activist and a writer. Born in Leicester, England, and raised in a working-class family, Richardson emigrated to northern Manitoba in 1911. She was influential in the women’s and peace movements in both countries. Devoutly religious, she challenged orthodoxy and worked outside the mainstream churches for peace and social justice. She co-founded one of the earliest suffrage groups in Manitoba and was a key activist in

Author: M. J. Ross
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Keywords: ross, james, clark, john, pioneers, polar
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1994-11
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0773512349
ISBN-13: 9780773512344

During the first half of the 19th century British explorers eagerly sought the Northwest Passage, making great advances in exploring and charting polar regions. "Polar pioneers" is the story of John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross, British naval officers who made important contributions to world exploration. In 1818 John Ross led an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage. He got as far as Baffin Bay, but when he reached the only practicable entrance to the passage he declared it to be no more than a bay enclosed by mountains. In subsequent years he was widely derided for that erro

Author: Alan Jeeves
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Keywords: labour, gold, mines, supply, struggle, mining, south, africa, migrant, economy
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1985-08
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0773504206
ISBN-13: 9780773504202

In tracing the development of the recruiting system, Alan Jeeves shows how a large proportion of the labour supply came to be controlled by private labour companies and recruiting agents, who aimed both to exploit the workers and to extract heavy fees from the employing companies. The gold indusry struggled for years against the internal divisions which created the competition for labour, until at last the Chamber of Mines, with the support of the state, succeeded in driving out the private recruiters and centralizing the system under its control. This study of the interests involved in the st

Authors:Louis Rosenberg, Morton Weinfeld, Morton Weinfeld,
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Keywords: canada, jews, studies, history, queens, ethnic, 1930s, social, economic, study, mcgill
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1993-05
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0773511091
ISBN-13: 9780773511095

A study of the demographic, sociological, cultural and economic dimensions of Canadian Jewish life in the 1930s. The book provides a portrait of a community struggling with the insecurities of recent immigration, the early seductions of assimilation, and a second-class status sustained by anti-Semitism. Originally published in 1939 by the Canadian Jewish Congress in Montreal, "Canada’s Jews" has long been out-of-print. Rosenberg drew his information from the Canadian census of 1931 and previous census records, statistical material from other studies collected by the Dominion Bureau of St