Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power - Hardcover

Danaher, Kevin; Mark, Jason

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415946778 ISBN 13: 9780415946773

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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 TheProgressive. His op-eds have appeared in The WashingtonPost, 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.

Reviews

Some policy analysts believe our government is so beholden to corporate interests that it is morphing from democracy to plutocracy. Danaher and Mark, co-founder and communication director, respectively, of the human rights group Global Exchange, believe citizens can fight back against corporate rule, and here they detail cases where they have done so to protect the environment and public health, and to protest corporate links to abusive regimes and oppose economic globalization. Different chapters focus on the fight against sweatshops abroad ("one of the most vigorous strands" of the anti-globalization fight), the long legal fight against Big Tobacco and the fight for democracy in Burma, which involves targeting corporations that do business with that repressive regime. Despite setbacks, the movement remains optimistic, the authors note, and anyone interested in learning more about it would do well to start here.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415946778
• ISBN 13: 9780415946773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364