STORRE Collection: Electronic copies of History and Politics chapters from single-author monographsElectronic copies of History and Politics chapters from single-author monographshttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/22462024-03-28T12:55:37Z2024-03-28T12:55:37ZScottish Medical Societies and the Profession in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesJenkinson, Jacquelinehttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/23812021-05-07T01:19:53Z1993-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Scottish Medical Societies and the Profession in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author(s): Jenkinson, Jacqueline
Editor(s): Jenkinson, Jacqueline1993-01-01T00:00:00ZA new look at an old tub: the historiography of the dabhachRoss, Alasdairhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/227502021-04-29T17:17:26Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: A new look at an old tub: the historiography of the dabhach
Author(s): Ross, Alasdair
Abstract: First paragraph: The dabhach has been a source of debate among estate factors, antiquarians and historians since the eighteenth century. The first people in the historical record to ask the question, “How did dabhach taxes and in-kind assessments work?” were some Scottish estate managers of the 1730s who had been instructed by their employers to reinstate an older system of taxation, whereby their tenants and sub-tenants rendered goods and services in kind (common burdens) in payment of rent rather than coin. In such instances, while these goods and services had been abandoned in favour of hard cash only a generation previously, a period of climatic and associated economic downturn from the 1720s effectively meant that farmers were unable to generate enough cash to cover the whole of their rents. Panicking landlords, many of whom by now had purchased residences in London and had an associated new lifestyle to pay for, wherever possible insisted upon a return to the previous norm, for a short while at least until a new major phase of estate improvement was initiated in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Clearly, before the 1760s, to some people the dabhach and it’s associated systems of tax assessment in goods and common burdens were a tried and trusted method of land management that could be relied upon to produce some kind of income. Typically, north of the Cairngorm mountains (see Map 2) such surviving Highland estate accounts are packed full of references to dabhaichean, their extent, the townships they contain, and to the natural resources available to those people who resided within each unit.2015-01-01T00:00:00ZIntroduction: Families at WarPenman, Michael Ahttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/23282017-06-20T01:09:30Z2002-07-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Introduction: Families at War
Author(s): Penman, Michael A
Abstract: A sample chapter from this book. First paragraph: In August 1299, an English spy reported news of a Scottish council-of-war to his king, Edward I. It was just over a year since the Scots’ inspiring if unexpected leader, William Wallace, the second son of a minor knight, had been defeated by Edward at the battle of Falkirk. But the Scots had continued to rebel. In the intervening twelve months two major noblemen had emerged to act as ‘Guardians of the realm’ to lead the fight in the name of their absent king, John I (or John Balliol), then a prisoner in the Tower of London. However, these new generals - Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick, and John Comyn, son of the lord of Badenoch - were ill-matched allies.2002-07-01T00:00:00ZLabor Migration and Migration PolicyBucken-Knapp, Gregghttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/43972021-05-04T15:42:38Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Labor Migration and Migration Policy
Author(s): Bucken-Knapp, Gregg
Editor(s): Bucken-Knapp, Gregg
Abstract: Across Europe, the prospect of a rapidly shrinking workforce has put increased labor migration back on the political agenda. However, for many on the left, concerns exist that less restrictive labor migration policies threaten core features of the social democratic project. This is perhaps clearest in Sweden, which in late 2008 adopted a liberal approach to third-country national labor migration, allowing employers to hire freely from outside the European Union. Defending the Swedish Model explores the debate leading up to this reform, focusing on the preferences of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO). While generally positive to the economic potential of increased labor migration, these allies remained highly skeptical towards calls from employers and bourgeois parties for liberalization.
Bucken-Knapp argues that the SAP and LO develop their labor migration policy preferences on the basis of whether specific reform alternatives are perceived as being consistent with, or as undermining, the Swedish model. In the case of third-country nationals, both allies considered liberalization a threat to full employment aims, instead seeking to preserve an influential role for the state labor market board and organized labor. Bucken-Knapp also focuses on the Swedish labor migration debate prior to the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, showing how SAP concerns over potential abuse of the universal welfare state led to its support for transitional arrangements. Defending the Swedish Model illuminates the challenges faced by social democrats and trade unions when considering the need for increased labor migration.2009-01-01T00:00:00Z