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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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The thesis portrays the British white-collar worker in relation to four domains of analysis: the workplace, the trade union, the class system, and political life. Its empirical findings derive from in-depth interviews with 134 "staff employees of Midland Products", a large manufacturing corporation in Nottingham. At Midland, the broad evocation "the rise of white-collar work" obscures the cleavage in non-manual job types between light clerical positions and better-paid, highly-ranked, and supervisory positions. It also obscures a cleavage among the staff employees between women, who are more satisfied at work and less interested in promotion, and men, who are relatively dissatisfied and more ambitious. Moreover, men dominate the better, and women the most junior and poorest-paid jobs at the company. Nevertheless, women are much less likely than men voluntarily to affiliate with trade unions. Women are also more hostile to the power unions hold in British society. Midland's modal trade unionist is male, order, suggestively more senior in the hierarchy, but unlikely to subscribe to unionism's high principles. The staff employees are sharply divided by class identity; just 52% self-classifying as middle class. "Many believe themselves, and on the conventional measure are, upwardly mobile. But a middle or working class identity is a poor guide to staff employee views on workplace and social issues. Nor does it reflect the profound occupational inequalities they experience at the company. Most staff employees identify with and vote for the Conservative party. The Tory coalition includes virtually all those raised in Conservative homes, together with many raised by Liberals and Labourites. Inter-party migration is especially common among the sons and daughters of manually-employed Labourites who are subjectively mobile. Yet 30% of Midland's staff employees are Labourites, which is an important barrier to the normative coherence of the stratum. Owing primarily to the growth of non-manual Labourites, the outlook is for even more fragmentation in Britain's new middle class. Coupled with analogous changes in the industrial working class, the power of "the class dynamic" may be much attenuated in the 1980s. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

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The purpose of this study is to present an account of the early career of Daniel Finch from 1679 to 1693. The investigation begins with an account of Finch's rise to prominence in parliament and at the Admiralty. It subsequently traces his role and involvement in the revolution settlement, and, after the accession of William III, Finch's responsibility as Secretary of State dealing principally with ecclesiastical affairs and naval affairs until his dismissal in 1693.

This thesis project is a study of a complex of historic, railway-goods warehouses in Nottingham (UK) that were internally destroyed by a fire two decades ago. The site has has become an erstwhile symbol of the city, a stark reminder of both a past age of prosperity and the century of post-industrial decline that ultimately followed.Now facing the threat of demolition, it is questioned whether it is possible to rescue the intrinsic potential of these ruins to radically transport us beyond the experience of the everyday city, to a unique and inhabitable space of transition between past and present. This thesis also examins the changing role of the library in the 21st century and the future for this public institution as a vestibule for the transmission of local culture and history. This leads to the central question of the thesis project; is it possible - through the appropriate treatment of an industrial ruin - to begin a process of reconciliation with the past, one that can provide some kind closure to the cognitive dissidence caused by language and tone of this kind of architectural heritage and the limited prospects that city like Nottingham faces today. / Detta examensarbete är en undersökning av ett komplex av historiska, järnvägsgodslager i Nottingham (Storbritannien) som internt förstördes av en brand två decennier sedan. Webbplatsen har blivit en dåvarande symbol för staden, en skarp påminnelse om både en tidigare ålder av välstånd och århundrade postindustriella nedgång som slutligen followed.Now inför hotet om rivning, är det ifrågasättas om det är möjligt att rädda inneboende potentialen hos dessa ruiner att radikalt transportera oss bortom upplevelsen av vardagliga staden, till en unik och beboelig utrymme för övergång mellan dåtid och nutid. Avhandlingen examins också förändrade roll biblioteket i det 21 century.This leder till den centrala frågan om examensarbetet; är det möjligt - genom lämplig behandling av en industriell ruin - att inleda en försoningsprocess med det förflutna, en som kan ge någon form stängning till den kognitiva oliktänkande på grund av språket och tonen i den här typen av arkitektoniska arvet och de begränsade möjligheterna att stad som Nottingham står inför i dag.

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2009. / Title from screen (viewed on December 9, 2009). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Marianne S. Wokeck, Erik L. Lindseth. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 147-167).