Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy
Language: English
Published by Apex Press, 2001
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In these 70 essays, speeches, sermons and screeds, POCLADers probe: corporations as legal persons; corporate social responsibility as a ploy; strategies for amending state corporation codes and challenging judge-made laws; and much, much more. This collection, which Howard Zinn calls powerfully persuasive, chronicles POCLAD's evolution - among the twelve POCLADers and with thousands of activists. Here are hidden histories, crisp analyses and thoughtful responses to corporate apologists - all in one provocative book.
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- Title
- Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy
- Author
- Dean Ritz
- Publisher
- Apex Press
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1891843109
- ISBN 13
- 9781891843105
In these 70 essays, speeches, sermons and screeds, POCLADers probe: corporations as "legal persons"; corporate social responsibility as a ploy; strategies for amending state corporation codes and challenging judge-made laws; and much, much more.
This collection, which Howard Zinn calls "powerfully persuasive," chronicles POCLAD's evolution -- among the twelve POCLADers and with thousands of activists. Here are hidden histories, crisp analyses and thoughtful responses to corporate apologists -- all in one provocative book.
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Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy is an important collection of visionary essays and discussion documents which combine legal analysis, historical scholarship and provocative movement critiques that point to a new direction in corporate campaigning.
--Multinational Monitor, December 2001If you have ever complained about giant corporations taking over our lives, but wondered what you could do about it, this is the book for you. In Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy the US activists behind the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy have drafted what is, in effect, a manifesto for anti-corporate action.
--The Ecologist, February 2002This collection of 73 essays, speeches, sermons, and letter chronicles the work of the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD, providing hidden histories, crisp analyses, and thoughtful responses to corporate apologists. Its value exceeds the price you'll pay for it. FIVE STARS.
--Business Ethics, January/February 2002"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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