Reviews for Labour Law in Denmark, 2nd Edition Revised

The average rating for Labour Law in Denmark, 2nd Edition Revised based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-09-09 00:00:00 Candace Vodden I bought this history of John Graves Simcoe to appease myself that the Simcoe I had learned about in high school was not the Simcoe I saw portrayed in the mini- series, TURN on A&E television network; an uncouth terror of an English soldier committed to murdering any American rebel who dared oppose his orders. I was educated in Quebec in the 1950s and at that time we studied Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario) history and about Simcoe in a very bright positive light as the founder and developer of Upper Canada. As I watched the miniseries, TURN, a history of the first American spies, I could not reconcile what I was seeing with what I had been taught. This account of Simcoe's life in Mary Beacock Fryer's account glosses over Simcoe's character and actions during the revolutionary war in the United States and concentrates on his British North American (Upper Canada) exploits as governor and founder and his military career and personal life in England during the turbulent times of the war with Napoleon, his thwarted tries to get the posts he really wanted but denied by either King George III or nobles who outranked him. His death is directly connected to his Portuguese assignment dying of lead poisoning. I will find other sources and see if the A&E depiction of Simcoe activities as a British captain fighting in the American revolution against the colonists is catholic one. This author suggests that Britain praised Simcoe as the best soldier they had and the honours and promotions he received were a result of that feeling. But he died unfulfilled and never returned to Upper Canada

Review # 2 was written on 2015-02-14 00:00:00 Alejandro Roque I cannot recommend this biography. It is dry, dispassionate and bewildering. Generally when you read a biography, you can tell the authors are invested in the subject, and that in turn makes you invested in the subject. This does not happen with this biography. You don't get the impression the authors like John Graves Simcoe, nor do they care enough to hate him - they don't seem particularly invested in him at all, and so as a reader, neither are you. I'm not entirely sure why they wrote this biography. The book is a list of dry facts loosely strung together, without almost any sense of narration. The chapters do not have a cohesive theme, and huge events are treated with the same interest as dry real estate transactions (there is a LOT about real estate transactions). The subject's death receives a grand total of one sentence. The authors do not place anything in historical context, so unless you are extremely familiar with the American Revolution, Upper Canada, AND rural England in the late 1700s, you will probably struggle to understand the meaning of many of Simcoe's actions and decisions. I wanted to read a biography of General Simcoe because I was very interested in the fact that he initiated the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada. Yet the authors seem completely uninterested in this fact. The abolition of slavery is treated with about two sentences, and isn't even listed in his list of accomplishments at the end of the book. I don't understand why the book spent pages upon pages detailing every man who ever worked for Simcoe, and every addition on to his estate in England, but only two sentences on this important historical fact. Simcoe later fought against the slave revolution in Haiti -this could have provided a chance for an in-depth, fascinating look at his anti-slavery views and the limits of them - but the book didn't bother. It's clear an enormous amount of research went into this book, and I respect how much time the authors clearly spent uncovering minute details of Simcoe's life. I also appreciate the time they spent on his fascinating wife, Elizabeth, and his family life. But in the end, this book is very dry and frustrating, does not make its subject seem human at all, and fails to place his life in the context of his historical time.