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The Rescue of the Third Class on the Titanic
This work seeks to understand why a disproportionately large number of third class passengers, particularly women and children, died during the sinking of the Titanic in relation to the first and second classes. It examines the gender, class, social, and cultural factors that influenced this disparity. It aims to uncover both why and how five hundred and thirty one third class passengers died on the night of April 14th 1912. A key area of focus is the difficult relationship between the ship’s authorities and the men of the third class, and the extent to which this determined the fate of passengers during the rescue efforts. The introduction asks ‘Who were the third class passengers?’ a...
Beyond Marx and Other Entries
Beyond Marx and Other Entries is a truly original book by David Gleicher, author of The Rescue of the Third Class on the Titanic: A Revisionist History (Liverpool University Press, 2006). It explores deep areas of semiotics, joined with economics, anthropology, sociology, history and philosophy and political science, even Franz Kafka's literary works. These are communicated by entries, based primarily on Gleicher’s actual blog Looking through the crack from 2013 to 2017. No other book quite compares to it, but one might equate it to impressionist art, or the 'the one and the many'. Each entry is independent; nothing in one makes even an allusion to another. Readers, however, cannot help but to make connections themselves and develop their own understandings of dystopian possibilities.
A Classical Approach to Occupational Wage Rates
David Gleicher and Lonnie Stevans present a theory of occupational wage rates that is a classical alternative to human capital theory. They introduce the net employment reserve, a novel explanatory variable that measures the bargaining power of employees in an occupation. An econometric model which includes net reserves is designed and tested. Results suggest standard empirical tests of human capital theory are misspecified. Other topics include: the origin of the firm, screening hypothesis, wage-efficiency, internal labor markets, and labor-market segmentation. This work offers insight into the theoretical and econometric modeling of labor specialization, as well as wage-rate differentials ...
Global Health Diplomacy
The world’s problems are indeed world problems: social and environmental crises, global trade and politics, and major epidemics are making public health a pressing global concern. From this constantly changing scenario, global health diplomacy has evolved, at the intersection of public health, international relations, law, economics, and management—a new discipline with transformative potential. Global Health Diplomacy situates this concept firmly within the human rights dialogue and provides a solid framework for understanding global health issues and their negotiation. This up-to-the-minute guide sets out defining principles and the current agenda of the field, and examines key relatio...
From Prisoner to Partisan
Memoirs of a Jew born in 1923 in the village of Verkhnya-Yablunka (eastern Galicia). In April 1942 his family was taken for forced labor in the area of Tarnawa. In August 1942 they and other Jews were returned to Turka, from where some of them (including Gleicher's mother) were deported to Bełżec and the rest were transferred to the ghetto of Sambor. Describes the liquidation of the Sambor ghetto in April-June 1943, stressing that the Jewish police took part in the actions. Gleicher then escaped from the ghetto, and until April 1944 he was hidden by various Ukrainians. Then he joined the Soviet partisans and fought in Ukraine and Slovakia. In November 1944 his partisan unit joined the advancing Red Army. Notes that antisemitism existed also in the ranks of the Soviet partisans and the Red Army. After the war he settled in New York and married Lottie Katz, a Holocaust survivor from Katowice. Pp. 211-230, "Lottie's Story", relate that during the war she was interned in the ghetto of Sosnowiec. After the liquidation of the ghetto in 1943 she first hid in a bunker, then lived with false papers until the liberation. After the war, she and her mother immigrated to the U.S.
Louis Brandeis Slept Here
From Colonial America to intermarriage in present times, Louis Brandeis covers such controversial issues as Jews and Blacks and Jews and politics, with each point being analyzed through the eyes of history and a strong dose of irreverence.
Maritime Transport and Migration
This study explores the connection between global maritime and migration networks to better understand the acceleration of the transatlantic migration rate that took place in the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It brings together the actions of migrants, government regulators, transatlantic shipping companies, and the agents who represented them to determine the motives and opportunities for transatlantic mass-migration. The study is comprised of an introductory chapter, seven essays by maritime scholars, and a conclusion. The subject is approached from three particular discussion points: the rate of development and the accessibility of transport networks for European migrants; the competition between shipping companies and the subsequent influence on migration; and the integration of labour markets in both Europe and America. It concludes by suggesting both maritime and migration historians should merge their respective fields by including the larger frameworks of each discipline to gain further understanding of their disciplines, and identifies the role of ports and shipping companies as crucial to any further study of mass migration.
Real Time Strategic Change
With Real Time Strategic Change, Robert Jacobs advocats a complete redesign of the way organisations change, and provides a practical guide through the entire change process.
