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The World as a Company Town : Multinational Corporations and Social Change.
Title:
The World as a Company Town : Multinational Corporations and Social Change.
Author:
Idris-Soven, Elizabeth.
ISBN:
9783110800081
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (467 pages)
Series:
World Anthropology
Contents:
General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT -- Multinational Corporations: The World as a Company Town -- The Blocked Path: International Labor and the Multinationals -- The Multinational Corporation as a Stage in the Development of Capitalism -- Ecology and Ideology -- Financial Colonies: Inflation, Recession, Debt, and the Multinational Corporation -- SECTION TWO: THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST -- Applied Research on the Multinational Corporation: A Symposium at the IX International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences -- Anthropology and Multinational Power: Some Ethical Considerations on Social Research in the Underdeveloped Countries -- Alternatives to Ethnocide: Human Zoos, Living Museums, and Real People -- SECTION THREE: THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- The Social Responsibility of Anthropological Science in the Context of Contemporary Brazil -- New Strategies for Multinational Enterprise in the Third World: Deltec in Brazil and Argentina -- The "Native Reserves" (Bantustans) and the Role of the Migrant Labor System in the Political Economy of South Africa -- by Bernard Magubane -- Export-Oriented Industrialization Through the Multinational Corporation: Evidence from Kenya -- Plantations, Peasants, and Proletariat in the West Indies: An Essay on Agrarian Capitalism and Alienation -- The Role of Peasant Organizations in the Struggle against Multinational Corporations: The Cuban Case -- Taxes, Tourists, and Turtlemen: Island Dependency and the Tax-Haven Business -- Notes on a Corporate "Potlatch": The Lumber Industry in Samoa -- The Nationalization of Copper in Chile: Antecedents and Consequences -- Automobiles: An Obstacle to Socialist Construction -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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