Title Corporations are gonna get your mama : globalization and the downsizing of the American dream / edited by Kevin Danaher.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	338.88 C822C	Check Shelf

Description	iv, 221 pages ; 20 cm
Contents	Debunking the corporate agenda / Noam Chomsky -- Corporate power and the quality of life / Kevin Danaher -- Stateless corporations: lords of the global economy / Richard J. Barnet -- Giants stalk, creation trembles / Kirkpatrick Sale -- When corporations rule the world / David Korten -- Corporate rules of the game / Jerry Mander -- Corporate crime: underworld USA / Russell Mokhiber -- Billions for corporations, bills for the people / Ralph Nader -- Separating corporate interests from the national interest / Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh -- The ideology of competitiveness: pitting worker against worker / James Rinehart -- Behind the cloak of benevolence: IMF/World Bank policies hurt workers at home and abroad / John Cavanagh, Sarah Anderson and Jill Pike -- Paying to lose our jobs: the U.S. job export strategy / Patricia Horn -- NAFTA's broken promises: evidence of NAFTA's failure / Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch -- Corporate technology and the threat to civil society / Jeremy Rifkin -- Global ecology and the common good / John Bellamy Foster -- NAFTA's environmental side show / Andrew Wheat -- Look what the GATT dragged in / Jean Anne Casey and Colleen Hobbs -- Shrugging off an attack on the Clean Air Act / Norman Solomon -- Global reach: workers fight the multinationals / John Cavanagh and Robin Broad -- A common sense citizens' agenda / David Korten -- Don't waste time with politicians -- organize! / Baldemar Velasquez -- The U.S.-Salvador gap / Gayle Liles -- A better way to measure the economy / Ted Halstead -- Stakeholders vs. stockholders / Steven Hill -- The new protectionism / Colin Hines and Tim Lang -- Building an alternative / Kevin Danaher.
Summary	Discusses the role of transnational corporations in NAFTA, GATT, and other manifestations of the New World Order (globalization).
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject	International business enterprises -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Cost and standard of living -- United States.
	Environmental protection.
	Political participation -- United States.
	United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001.
	Cost and standard of living. (OCoLC)fst00880673
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	Environmental protection. (OCoLC)fst00913324
	International business enterprises -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst00976824
	Political participation. (OCoLC)fst01069386
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1981-2001
Added Author	Danaher, Kevin.
Other Form:	Online version: Corporations are gonna get your mama. Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press, ©1996 (OCoLC)647514553
ISBN	1567511139 (cloth)
	9781567511130 (cloth)
	1567511120 (paper)
	9781567511123 (paper)

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