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Informationen zum Autor ABOUT THE COOPERSDavid L. Cooper is a retired business owner, a suicide loss survivor, a volunteer grief facilitator with the Toronto Distress Centre, and the founder of STUFF Canada, a non-profit created in 1999 to reduce homelessness and poverty in Toronto. In 2004, he was the recipient of the New Spirit of Community Award at the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy, and the Peter F. Drucker Award for Not-For-Profit Innovation in 2003. He and his wife Deborah share practical supportive advice for bereaved parents and the professionals who work with them. Deborah A. Cooper, a suicide loss survivor, formerly a Public Health Nurse with the City of Toronto and a part-time faculty member in Nursing at Seneca College, worked with David in the family business for many years prior to retiring in 2015. She has been a community volunteer and advocate for more than 40 years. Klappentext This book reproduces articles and reports which were written and gained prominence during the 1984 5 coal dispute in the UK. Zusammenfassung This book, published in the late 1980s, reproduces articles and reports which were written and gained prominence during the 1984–5 coal dispute in the UK. It is, however, more than a contribution to the history of that dispute and addresses more general issues of industrial and national policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: financial calculation in industrial and political debate D. J. Cooper and T. M. Hopper; Part I. The Economics and Accounting of the National Coal Board: 2. Pit closures: some economics G. Davies and D. Metcalf; 3. The costs and benefits of coal pit closures P. Minford and P. Kung; 4. The economic case against pit closures Andrew Glyn; 5. NCB accounts: a mine of mis-information? A. J. Berry, T. Capps, D. J. Cooper, T. M. Hopper and E. A. Lowe; 6. How large a coal industry? P. W. Robinson; Part II. Economic Strategies of NCB Management: 7. The economic case for deep-mined coal in Scotland G. Kerevan and R. Saville; 8. Aberystwyth report on coal T. Cutler, C. Haslam, J. Williams and K. Williams; Part III. Coal in Context: 9. Economic background to the coal dispute P. W. Robinson; 10. Nuclear power and the coal industry S. Fothergill; 11. The restructuring of the British coal industry A. Burns, M. Newby and J. Winterton; List of contributors; Index....
