Danaher / Mark Insurrection

Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-93955-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 364 Seiten

From uncovering major retailers' links to sweatshop abuses and revealing the deception of American tobacco companies, to questioning corporations' ties to repressive dictators, shaming food processors into selling dolphin-safe tuna and demanding that businesses stop destroying old growth forests, citizens have become far more aggressive in directly challenging corporate behavior. Written by two activists who are constantly in the eye of this storm, Insurrection charts the growth of this dissatisfaction and gives us a glimpse of where this movement might be heading.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Danaher, Kevin

Mark, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Corporate Power vs. People's Power
A History of U.S. Corporate Accountability Struggles
2. Would You Let Your Sister Work There?
The Conflict Over Sweatshops
3. Flipper vs. the WTO
The Dolphin/Tuna Dilemma
4. Citizen Diplomacy vs. Corporate Profits
The Struggle to Free Burma
5. Up In Smoke: Tobacco Profits vs. Public Health
6. Trading Democracy
The Struggle Over Rule-Making in the Global Economy
Conclusion: Movement-Building for Global Democracy
Resources

Über Autor(innen)

Described by The New York Times as the ³Paul Revere of globalization¹s woes,² Kevin Danaher is the author or editor of ten books about globalization, and the co-founder of the human rights organization Global Exchange. His book Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama was named one of the best books of 1997 by The Progressive. His op-eds have appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Jason Mark, a one-time reporter, has helped develop corporate accountability campaigns targeting Nike, Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, and Ford Motor Company. His op-eds have appeared in the Miami Herald and the San Francisco Chronicle. This is his first book. To learn more about their work, visit www.globalexchange.org.