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...economic signal, as Assange asserts, but these tools serve as a cultural signal of a dystopic democracy that celebrates the use of torture and the violation of constitutional and fundamental human rights as a symbol of US patriotism and imperialism. As a "chronotope of revolution"—"a montage of transformations that amalgamates contraries, oppositions, disparities"—the...

...economic crises in ways that local societies could not. In addition, it relied on some members being unable to make their payments, leaving the society and then being unable to recoup any subscriptions paid. In the 1890s one in eight of the members of the Oddfellows, lapsed within a five-year period. Another estimate indicated that half of all members lapsed. In addition,...

...economically. Rather, it was a ‘county on the move’, spearheading Scotland’s ‘new industrial revolution’, with modern industries envisaged to replace the declining traditional sectors of mining, textiles and shipbuilding (Clark, 2021). This optimism was due to the opening of a British Motor Corporation (BMC) plant in 1960, and the takeover of the Telegraph...

...economic situation in Greenock continued to deteriorate. Between 1976 and 1980, 4,580 redundancies were notified in the area and, by 1981, there were 18 unemployed people for every job advertised. Female unemployment was 13.3 per cent, fifty per cent higher than the Scottish figure of 9.6 per cent. It was within this context of decline that the Lee Jeans workers were told...