Primarily focusing on the organization of production and labor use practices in the Caribbean's second largest sugar industry, this work's historical, macroeconomic, political, and sociocultural components depict the reality of today's Dominican sugar economy. The Dominican Republic has been radically altered by its internationally oriented sugar economy--its society and national culture transformed and its political, legal, and economic structures modified. This book describes the progressive replacement of national labor in the sugar industry by foreign workers. Comparing the three distinct sugar corporations, it concludes that all three exploited foreign labor. The study refutes modern slavery charges through social science theory and extensive field research. Depicting living and working conditions in the fields, it concludes that slavery charges are the result of superficial analyses of symbols. More in-depth analyses display one of the most extreme forms of superexploitation in the twentieth century.Addressing present-day labor utilization strategies in the Dominican Republic sugar plantation system, Martin Murphy focuses on three areas: the logic of production, foreign labor integration, and a comparative analysis of three corporations. His first two chapters provide an overview of the historic and contemporary Dominican sugar industry. Historical patterns of labor recruitment and use are then presented in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 describes the basic logic of production and use of various types of labor for the plantations of the 1980s. Murphy's last four chapters address the question of heavy reliance on Haitian labor: Chapter 5 provides a history of Haitian migration; Chapter 6 discusses factors of expulsion and attraction which condition present-day Haitian migration to Dominican fields; Chapters 7 and 8 conclude with questions of Haitian ethnicity and its relationship to production organization.

Dominican Sugar Plantations: Production and Foreign Labor Integration

Business & Money

Murphy, Martin

Economics

Praeger

New Haven 1989 first edition. Yale. Hardcover large octavo. 270p. Near Fine (small date stamp on end paper- no other owner marks. ) VG dj.(some adhesive tape residue on dj.)

Blanco White: Self-banished Spaniard

History

Europe

Yale University Press

It sometimes seems like my life has been framed with the vignette of old spruce hanging over the river with a snow-capped mountain in the distance behind me. In my mind, I am still using all of my strength and all of my skill; my lungs are pushing me as my shoulders pull. I am a monster fighting to become the seamless and smooth on a ripple in the earth. A fault line, a creek that offers me the best that I have to give. The choice is mine, my lungs have filled with fresh cool spruce soaked air as my hands have gripped the paddle.Into the river that never leaves me, I'm drawn by the raw power, rage without anger. Benevolent yet stifling, there is an art that exists here, a pendulum that must be timed to a moment of a breath.The risk is simply breathing, it's between those breaths that I really live. The decisions I make between paddle strokes, striving to match the vision in my mind. We are always at the edge of something, always afraid to breathe, but we do, and we must. When the light becomes soft, and the quiet smoke becomes wedges that defy gravity I realize somehow, I am a part of it, or moreover, it's a part of me.This life on the river? I just need one more breath.

One More Breath: The Memoir of a Whitewater Kayaker

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

IngramSpark

Wasting time in pointless meetings is the one thing that never seems to change. Martin Murphy, however, has helped a "Who's Who" of corporate clients transform time-sapping meetings into breakthrough sessions that are measurably productive. His strategy is not simply to make meetings more palatable; instead, he reframes the entire concept of collaboration and introduces four "Work Sessions" that replace meetings to get more done, faster than ever before. These protocols address Issues Management, a means to identify, rank, and resolve issues before promoting them to Action Plan status; Problem Solving, thirty-minute sessions for quickly solving complex problems; Innovation, a means to discover the billion-dollar idea that lurks in every organization; and Ongoing Planning, a stripped-down, built-for-speed, ongoing alternative to scheduled planning. In the Digital Age, where innovation and speed-to-market cabilities rule, "No More Pointless Meetings" shows managers how to leverage the creative and cognitive capabilities of their reports in a manner that transforms traditional collaborative outcomes.

No More Pointless Meetings: Breakthrough Sessions That Will Revolutionize the Way You Work

Management & Leadership

AMACOM

St. Gregory's College, Seville, 1592-1767 (Catholic Record Society publications)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Catholic Record Society

The author looks for the church with the present truth of Scripture as His guide. The Summary of The Present Truth is found in this remark about the State of the Church. “The More I look at the church the less I see of the church. The more I look at the American culture, the more I see the church.” Each chapter is practically theological and purposely penetrates the surface of evangelical church. It is the present truth.

The Present Truth: Thoughts of a Musing Christian

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Theocentric Publishing Group, The

This traces the historical events and spiritual condition of Israel prior to the fall of the northern kingdom in 722 B.C.  The Israelites were turning away from the true God and taking pleasure in spiritual adultery by worshipping false gods.  This book will be useful to pastors, Sunday Schools teachers, and laymen who want to dig deeper into the word of God.

Return to the Lord: A Brief Commentary and Exposition of Hosea

The Theocentric Publishing Group

The postmodern concept has saturated modern evangelicals with the idea that absolute truth is not important or necessary.  What came with it was the demolition of Christian doctrine.  This book calls Christians to take a fresh look at the essentials of Christian  doctrine.  When Alice in Wonderland asked the cat where she ought to go the cat said "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."  Christians have purpose and a final goal "to get to" and "The Essence of Christian Doctrine" is a valuable tool for that process.  This work is an explanation of the essential doctrine of Christianity based on the teaching found in the Apostles' Creed.   It further explains other basic Christian doctrine like creation, sin, and salvation.  The author explains how the Ten Commandments are basic to Christian doctrine and includes a chapter on biblical evangelism.

The Essence of Christian Doctrine: A Brief Study of the Apostles' Creed and Basic Christian Doctrine

This book investigates the doctrine of Christian apologetics.  It explains the teaching of a rational Christian apologetic based on theological assumptions derived from Special Revelation.   Martin Murphy takes the reader to a new level of understanding the God of meaning and reality.

My Christian Apology: Apologetics: Explained and Applied

This book is written so that simple words like faith or not so simple words like aseity are explained in plain language. Although there are numerous dictionaries, concordances, and encyclopedias that define theological words, phrases, and concepts, there are few that are concise and simple. Theological Terms in Layman Language is easy to read and designed for people who want a brief definition for theological terms.

Theological Terms in Layman Language: The Doctrine of Sound Words

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