Regional Restructuring: Class Politics and Popular Protest in South Wales

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Regional Growth ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Social Bases ◽  
Social Mobilisation ◽  
State Investment ◽  
Regional Restructuring ◽  
State Regional

The question of whether class or territory is the stronger basis of social mobilisation is examined. It is suggested that the economic problems being experienced by many older industrial areas can give rise to regional coalitions that seek to transcend class antagonisms in order to press for state investment to improve regional growth and employment prospects. But it is further argued that, because of the heterogeneity of the sociospatial base in such regions, supralocal coalitions will be vulnerable to the effects of allocative decisions favouring particular within-region locations. The notion of the vulnerability of regional social bases to the expression of local class interests is explored in the context of industrial South Wales. This region has been subject to successive attempts at economic revival, often in response to an apparently coherent regional voice pressing for state regional interventions. Important parts of various policies for restructuring the regional economy have been defeated in the past, precisely because of the impotence of regional coalitions to carry disadvantaged local class groupings along with them. On occasions, such local class groupings have been capable of mobilising popular support, indicating more the defensive than offensive nature of their power.

The Emergence of Class Politics in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-723
Author(s):  
Carl E. Gershenson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Party System ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Party Affiliation ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Data Limitations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Bases

AbstractHow do economic and social position structure partisan affiliation? While neo-Durkheimian treatments of class and political behavior suggest the potential for extreme variability in the social bases of partisan affiliation, data limitations have largely restricted quantitative studies of this relationship to the postwar era. This temporal limitation restricts variation in observable social structure, thus limiting the ability of analysts to assess theoretical explanations. To address this gap, I introduce novel data on occupation and ethnicity for more than 20,000 Massachusetts state legislators in the nineteenth century. This allows me to find the “best fit” model for the social bases of party affiliation in four distinct periods in Massachusetts’ political history. I show that the Massachusetts political system transitioned from a system of occupational cleavages to proto-class cleavages between the First Party System (1795–1826) and Second Party System (1835–54). The Civil War and Reconstruction Era (1855–77) was characterized by the emergence of an ethnic cleavage, but near-modern class divisions emerged as the strongest predictors of legislators’ party affiliations for the remainder of the Third Party System (1878–93). Combined with historiographical accounts of the nineteenth century, these analyses suggest that the emergence of class politics requires intermediary organizations such as unions and professional associations, the liberalization of economic laws and regulation, and the increasingly unequal distribution of productive property.

Delicate and Noxious Scrub

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
JC Noble
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Strategies

Semi-arid woodlands are an important part of the Australian landscape and they have been the focus for scientific research by CSIRO since the 1960s. This book reviews that research and sets it in a historical perspective. It examines the development of pastoral science, with particular reference to the farming frontier in western New South Wales, as well as research conducted by CSIRO over the past thirty years aimed at helping manage increasing shrub densities while improving productivity. The author discusses past, current and future research directions and looks at how management perceptions and approaches continue to change as understanding of ecological processes and new strategies evolve.

Use of bioclimatic analysis to direct survey effort for the long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes), a rare forest-dwelling rat-kangaroo

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 193 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. Claridge
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Variables ◽  
New Records ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
Suitable Habitat ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Wales ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Survey Effort

The long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) is one of the rarest and most elusive forest-dwelling mammals in Australia. Survey effort for the species over the past decade or so in south-eastern New South Wales has been driven, primarily, by predictions derived from climatic analyses using BIOCLIM. These predictions were based on known locality records of the long-footed potoroo from adjacent East Gippsland, Victoria. While they have proven useful in confirming the occurrence of the species in New South Wales, recent fortuitous records of the species from north-eastern Victoria fall well outside of the range predicted earlier by BIOCLIM. Using these new records a revised predicted range is calculated, enlarging considerably the potential geographic extent of climatically suitable habitat for the species. The results presented here highlight the limitations of BIOCLIM when given locality records of a species from only a portion of its true geographic range. I argue that less emphasis might be based on this approach to direct survey effort for the species in the future. Instead, a range of other environmental variables might be used in combination with BIOCLIM-derived outputs when selecting survey sites. In this way a more representative picture of the distribution of the species may be obtained.

Coastal Changes in South Wales—The Excavation of an Old Beach

1933 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 541-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard S. Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Surface Conditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Wales ◽  
History Of ◽  
Recent Phase ◽  
Coastal Changes ◽  
East And West

While investigating the problem of coastal changes in South Wales, and examining 1 the area of the Merthyr Mawr Warren (Fig. 1) for this purpose, the differences, observable in the surface conditions to-day, and evident in the records of the past, between the areas east and west of a line approximating to the Burrows Well stream, suggested that the relatively recent physical history of the two sections of the area had not been similar. The greater width in the east suggested recent accumulation in this section, and the presence of what appeared to be successively formed littoral dunes pointed to a relatively recent phase of prograding, while the topography made it possible that these changes were related to the mouth of the River Ogmore.

Speakable Australian Acts

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-63
Author(s):  
Duncan Berry
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Wales

Parliamentary counsel have long been criticised for the style of legislative texts, with readers claiming (often with some justification) that Acts of Parliament are difficult to read and understand. Parliamentary counsel in Australia have recognised the difficulties faced by users of Acts and, during the past seven or eight years, have by various means endeavoured to lessen those difficulties. This article outlines some of the initiatives that have been taken in Australia, and in particular in New South Wales, to make legislation more comprehensible to readers.

A popular music project and people with disabilities community in Hamburg, Germany: the case of Station 17

Popular Music ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-410
Author(s):  
DIETMAR ELFLEIN
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Professional Artists

AbstractIn this article I discuss the past and present of Station 17, a project made up of disabled and non-disabled musicians, which was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1988. Station 17 refuse to regard themselves as a pedagogic or therapeutic project. My specific interest is to show how they attempt to solve artistic and economic problems that arise out of this decision. In artistic terms they developed two major modes of production, which both led to a dead end. As a consequence they merged these two modes in order to regain the flexibility of improvisation without losing the benefits of sequencer-based electronic music. Within the pop market the lyrics, which are exclusively provided by disabled members of the project, serve as a unique selling proposition. In economic terms they succeeded in creating themselves a niche within a therapeutic structure that allows them to act as professional artists.

scholarly journals Responding to Children When Their Parents are Incarcerated: Exploring the Responses in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Flynn ◽  
Tess Bartlett ◽  
Paula Fernandez Arias ◽  
Phillipa Evans ◽  
Alannah Burgess
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Parental Incarceration ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Children Of Prisoners ◽  
Informal Information ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Trajectory Of Care ◽  
The Impact

There is considerable research conducted over the past 50 years which describes the impact on children of parental incarceration. Research has also focused on describing the care arrangements of such children. Yet there has been no specific examination of the trajectory of care for these children, the processes surrounding this care, or its resultant quality. This article reports the findings of an ARC funded study examining care planning processes in Victoria and New South Wales for these children. We concentrate in this paper on a subset of data from 124 professional stakeholders, who commented on their experiences of responding to children, in the context of their organisational remit, processes and expectations. Findings indicate that children of prisoners are largely invisible in adult organisations and that there are typically poor or poorly understood interagency protocols to respond to these children. Respondents report relying on informal information, networks and resources and working outside of their role to meet the needs of children. Clear suggestions are made for improvements, including developing child-sensitive services; a child-focused approach and clearer protocols and guidelines for working with others.

scholarly journals Sejarah Pemikiran Ekonomi Islam Pada Masa Daulah Bani Umayyah dan Bani Abbasiyah

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nurul Huda
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Time

This article is the result of an analysis of economic history in the past which is to answer economic problems during the Umayyad and Abasiyyah Daulah,economic activities carried out during the Daulah Bani Umayyah and BaniAbasiyyah. This research uses the Historical Method by using secondarysources originating from December. which literature has been previouslyreviewed and analyzed. While in the approach the writer uses a historicalapproach. This approach is used by the author in order to reveal the economicproblems of the Umayyad and Abasiyyah Bani. From the research results, itcan be seen that the development of Islamic economics in the Umayyad andAbbasid dynasties was an economic policy formed based on the ijtihad of thefuqoha and ulama as a consequence of the increasingly distant time spanbetween the Prophet's life and the reign. The abbasiyah caliph or the dynasty ofthe children of the abbot, as said to continue the rule of the Umayyad dynasty.His power lasted a long time. During the Abbasiyah dynasty in power wherethe patterns of government applied varied according to political, social andcultural changes. Keywords: Economy, Caliph, Islam

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