Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About ItMacmillan, 2000 M04 10 - 384 pages Foreword by Ralph Nader. In Corporation Nation Derber addresses the unchecked power of today's corporations to shape the way we work, earn, buy, sell, and think—the very way we live. Huge, far-reaching mergers are now commonplace, downsizing is rampant, and our lines of communication, news and entertainment media, jobs, and savings are increasingly controlled by a handful of global—and unaccountable—conglomerates. We are, in effect, losing our financial and emotional security, depending more than ever on the whim of these corporations. But it doesn't have to be this way, as this book makes clear. Just as the original Populist movement of the nineteenth century helped dethrone the robber barons, Derber contends that a new, positive populism can help the U.S. workforce regain its self-control. |
Contents
ONE The End of the Century | 11 |
TWO The Curse of the Robber Barons | 29 |
THREE The Mouse Mickey Mouse and Baby Bells | 49 |
FOUR Companies That Run America | 73 |
FIVE Bye Bye American Pie | 92 |
SIX The Making of the Corporate Mystique | 118 |
SEVEN Reinventing the Mystique | 137 |
EIGHT The Dependent Corporation | 155 |
TEN How to be Politically Hopeful for the Next Century | 187 |
ELEVEN Why You Shouldnt Be Liberal or Conservative | 196 |
TWELVE Whats Right and Wrong with Corporate | 221 |
THIRTEEN How to Be Against Corporate Power and | 242 |
FOURTEEN The Global Populist | 272 |
FIFTEEN The Four Movements to Join | 289 |
SIXTEEN Why Personal Responsibility Is Not Good Enough | 310 |
NINE Five Reasons Americans Dont Think About | 172 |
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Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What ... Charles Derber No preview available - 1998 |