
Insurrection
Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power
By: Jason Mark, Kevin Danaher
Hardcover | 25 September 2003 | Edition Number 1
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But what corporations have gained in political power they have lost in legitimacy. A growing number of people--environmental activists, trade unionists, family farmers--are challenging the power of giant corporations, demanding that they be held accountable to someone other than their shareholders.
These efforts exploded to the surface of American politics in November 1999, when tens of thousands of people shut down the World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle. Not long after that, a BusinessWeek poll found that 77 percent of U.S. citizens feel that corporations have too much power and that was before the Enron scandal broke.
In "Insurrection," Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark, two high-profile activists, present a series of stories chronicling the accomplishments of the budding corporate accountability movement: the uncovering of major retailers links to sweatshop abuses; the revelation that big tobacco companies deceived the public about the health risks of smoking; the questioning of corporations ties to repressive dictatorships; the shaming of food processors into selling dolphin-safe tuna; and the battles against NAFTA and the WTO. Together, these struggles seek to fulfill the idea that in a democracy no institution is above the law.
Filled with compelling accounts that are both lively and informative, Insurrection is the definitive book on the burgeoning anti-corporate globalization movement.
Industry Reviews
"If you're waiting for the rallying cry to join the historic battle against global corporate greed, here it is! Insurrection -- the time is now." -- Jim Hightower, author of Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen OurCountry and It's Time to Take It Back!
"This book is not another sad-faced whine telling us what we already know. It details real victories against corporate dictatorship, and how we can help do more." -- Jello Biafra
"Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power provides invaluable information about important recent challenges to corporate arrogance by various organizations within the US movement for corporate responsibility. The documented histories of anti-sweat shop, anti-tobacco, anti-WTO, Free Burma, and pro-democracy campaigns make clear that corporations are not invincible. Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark also make a compelling case for why the movement must not only continue to demand responsibility from individual corporations, but must also move on to demand that government enforce corporate accountability in general. Danaher and Mark's experience as activists as well as researchers makes their discussion of anti-corporate strategy and tactics, and their suggestions for how to transform the movement for corporate responsibility into a movement for global democracy particularly insightful." -- Robin Hahnel, American University, and Author of TheABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach
ISBN: 9780415946773
ISBN-10: 0415946778
Published: 25th September 2003
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 366
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.18
Weight (kg): 0.63
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