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The last great strike : the untold story of the strike that closed The Straits Times /

Veteran journalist Clement Mesenas looks back on eight eventful days in 1971 when a group of young reporters staged a historic strike that shut down The Straits Times, a company that had the proud tradition of never being off the streets in its 120 years of existence, not even during the Japanese oc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mesenas, Clement, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : Marshall Cavendish, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; foreword; A Story That Ha s To Be Told; Acknowledgements; Key Players at the Time of The Straits Times Strike; 01 A Powerful Ally; 02 A Brewing Storm; 03 The La st Straw; 04 The Great Glass Cage; 05 The Daily Rush; 06 The Widget; 07 The Reluctant Union Leader; 08 Ganja, Alcohol and the Addiction of the Byline; 09 The Ang Moh and Stories of Love and Lust; 10 The Opening Gambit; 11 The Slow Waltz; 12 Out! Out! Out!; 13 The Battle at the Front Lines; 14 The Beginning of the End; Photo; 15 Celebrating a Victory; 16 Looking Back, Looking Ahead; References; About the author 
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