Author: United States. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: United States. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Statistical Reference Index
Author: Annual Report of the SEC.
Author: United States. Securities and Exchange CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
U.S. Industrial Outlook
Author: Senate Final History
Author: California. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
100 Years of NCVO and Voluntary Action
Author: Justin Davis SmithPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030027740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book explores the rich history of voluntary action in the United Kingdom over the past 100 years, through the lens of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), which celebrates its centenary in 2019. From its establishment at the end of the First World War, through the creation of the Welfare State in the middle of the twentieth century, to New Labour and the Big Society at the beginning of this century, NCVO has been at the forefront of major developments within society and the voluntary movement. The book examines its many successes, including its role in establishing high-profile charities such as Age Concern, the Youth Hostels Association, and National Association of Citizens’ Advice Bureaux. It charts the development of closer relations with the state, resulting in growing awareness of the value of voluntary action, increased funding, and beneficial changes to public policy, tax and charity law. But it also explores the criticisms NCVO has faced, in particular that by pursuing a partnership agenda and championing professionalisation, it has contributed to an erosion of the movement’s independence and distinctiveness.
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Assembly Final History
Author: California. Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
Fossil Energy Update
Author: The American Red Cross
Author: Marian Moser JonesPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 1421408236
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The iconic relief organization’s activities over a half century of history, through wars, epidemics, and other disasters: “Well-researched . . . fascinating.” —Julia F. Irwin, Bulletin of the History of Medicine In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured onto Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva conventions, and founded and ran the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal tells the story of the charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, natural disasters, and the Depression, to its relief efforts of the 1930s. Marian Moser Jones illustrates the tension between the organization’s founding principles of humanity and neutrality and the political, economic, and moral pressures that sometimes caused it to favor one group at the expense of another. This book tells the stories of: • U.S. natural disasters such as the Jacksonville yellow fever epidemic of 1888, the Sea Islands hurricane of 1893, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake • crises abroad, including the 1892 Russian famine and the Armenian massacres of 1895–96 • efforts to help civilians affected by the civil war in Cuba • power struggles within the American Red Cross leadership and subsequent alliances with the American government • the organization’s expansion during World War I • race riots and massacres in East St. Louis, Chicago, and Tulsa between 1917 and 1921 • help for African American and white Southerners after the Mississippi flood of 1927 • relief projects during the Dust Bowl and after the New Deal An epilogue relates the history of the American Red Cross since the beginning of World War II and illuminates the organization’s current practices and international reputation.