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Contention and corporate social responsibility
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ISBN: 9780521727068 9780511804359 9780521898409 9780511641381 0511641389 0511638949 9780511638947 0511804350 0521898404 0521727065 1107202094 051163787X 0511640021 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York Cambridge University Press

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This book examines anti-corporate activism in the United States, including analysis of anti-corporate challenges associated with social movements as diverse as the Civil Rights Movement and the Dolphin-safe Tuna Movement. Using a unique dataset of protest events in the United States, the book shows that anti-corporate activism is primarily about corporate policies, products, and negligence. Although activists have always been distrustful of corporations and sought to change them, until the 1970s and 1980s, this was primarily accomplished via seeking government regulation of corporations or via organized labor. Sarah A. Soule traces the shift brought about by deregulation and the decline in organized labor, which prompted activists to target corporations directly, often in combination with targeting the state. Using the literatures on contentious and private politics, which are both essential for understanding anti-corporate activism, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the changing focal points of activism directed at corporations.


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The will of the many
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ISBN: 1783710438 1849644276 9781849644273 0745329268 9780745329260 074532925X 9780745329253 9781783710430 Year: 2009 Publisher: London New York New York Pluto Press Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan


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Hidden hands in the market
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ISBN: 9781848550599 1848550596 1848550588 9786613681690 1280770929 1781901570 Year: 2009 Publisher: Bingley Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed to be based on economic rationality and driven by a desire to consume. But there are different views of how the Market operates, or ought to operate. This collection of essays discusses a series of alternative perspectives - manifested in ethical movements, alternative consumer behaviour, and social corporate responsibility initiatives - that seek to reveal the 'hidden hands' of power, inequality and morality that shape Market exchange. Against the impersonality of the Market, we find initiatives, such as local food movements, that seek to re-embed commodity exchange in social relationships. Against the idea of the open economy, we find initiatives that seek to counter the ever-widening gap between producers and consumers. Against increased extraction from less powerful economic actors, we find ethical movements, such as Fair Trade, that work to return a fair share of the price to producers and workers. And, against the unfettered Market, we encounter a move to re-regulate trade and protect those located in the most vulnerable market positions.The volume engages with a range of alternative ethical perspectives and the initiatives to which they give rise. Twelve essays - all based on first-hand ethnographic studies of alternative trade movements, corporate social initiatives and consumer behaviour - provide the groundwork for wide-ranging theoretical engagement and comparative analysis. The case studies cover a range of places, commodities and initiatives, including Fair Trade and organic production activism in Hungary, CSR discourses in South Africa and Europe, Fair Trade coffee in Costa Rica and handicrafts made in Indonesia.The essays contribute to a series of current debates within the social sciences about what drives alternative Market engagements, how they are understood and represented by different actors, and what makes their outcomes often ambivalent or contradictory. They address disjunctions between discourses and practices, and internal inconsistencies within ethical movements and corporate initiatives. The volume as a whole engages with questions about morality and the economy, the creation and circulation of value, and, ultimately, the possibility of making alternatives work.In doing so, the contributors reveal the many fields of power at work within the Market as well as within the movements advocating more ethical economic relationships. The volume will be of particular interest to social scientists, business and management studies scholars, and a range of practitioners.


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Gebroken vitrines : de andersglobalisten tien jaar na Seattle
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ISBN: 9789038214832 Year: 2009 Publisher: Gent Academia Press

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De auteurs blikken terug op 10 jaar van sociaal verzet sinds de opkomst van de andersglobalisten in Seattle en richten hun blik op de toekomst. tien jaar geleden stond het neoliberale huis nog stevig overeind. De andersglobalisten slaagden erin om de vitrines van dat huis aan digelen te slaan en het marktfundamentalisme in vraag te stellen. Met de huidige financiële crisis wankelt het neoliberale huis meer dan ooit omdat het helemaal niet over sterke funderingen blijkt te beschikken. De andersglobalisten staan dan ook voor duidelijke keuzes: kunnen ze mee de architecten worden van een compleet nieuw en toekomstgericht huis, gebaseerd op sociale, radicaal-democratische en duurzame fundamenten?

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andersglobaliseringsbewegingen --- 241 Hedendaagse wereldproblemen --- BPB1001 --- Mouvement antimondialisation --- Antiglobaliseringsbeweging --- Internationalisering --- Politieke geschiedenis --- Liberalisme --- Economische crisis --- Democratie --- Politiek --- Andersglobalisering --- Evolutie --- antiglobalizačné hnutie --- protiglobalizacijsko gibanje --- moviment kontra l-globalizzazzjoni --- antiglobaliseringsbeweging --- globaliseerumisvastane liikumine --- κίνημα κατά της παγκοσμιοποίησης --- Anti-Globalisierungsbewegung --- mișcare antiglobalizare --- movimiento antiglobalización --- lëvizje kundër globalizimit --- globalisaatiota vastustava liike --- protiglobalizační hnutí --- globalizációellenes mozgalom --- antiglobaliseringsbevægelse --- антиглобалистко движение --- movimento antiglobalizzazione --- antiglobaliseringsrörelse --- antiglobalisation movement --- ruch antyglobalistyczny --- антиглобалистичко движење --- антиглобалистички покрет --- kustība pret globalizāciju --- antiglobalizacijski pokret --- movimento antiglobalização --- antiglobalistinis judėjimas --- drugačna globalizacija --- противници на глобализацијата --- alternatīvā globalizācijas kustība --- movimento altermondialista --- Forum social mondial --- mouvement antiglobalisation --- antiglobalizam --- Forum Soċjali Dinji --- Forum sociale mondiale --- världssocialt forum --- Forumi Social Botëror --- Svjetski socijalni forum --- Forumul Social Mondial --- globalisierungskritische Bewegung --- alternative Globalisierungsbewegung --- Pasaulio socialinis forumas --- Световен социален форум --- Det Sociale Verdensforum --- movimiento altermundialista --- Světové sociální fórum --- алтерглобалистичко движење --- Svetovni socialni forum --- alterglobalistinis judėjimas --- Pasaules Sociālais forums --- mișcare antimondializare --- global rättviserörelse --- andersmondialisten --- Svetové sociálne fórum --- üleilmastumisvastane liikumine --- movimento antimundialização --- ruch alterglobalistyczny --- Fórum Social Mundial --- World Social Forum --- antiglobalizmas --- Maailman sosiaalifoorumi --- altermondialistinen liike --- globalizmuselleneség --- Szociális Világfórum --- movimiento altermundista --- Светски социјални форум --- bevægelse mod globalisering --- movimento no global --- antiglobalization movement --- globaliseringsmotståndare --- antiglobalistično gibanje --- κίνημα της αντιπαγκοσμιοποίησης --- vaihtoehtoglobalistinen liike --- maailma sotsiaalfoorum --- alterglobalizační hnutí --- Światowe Forum Społeczne --- WSF --- Светски социјален форум --- Sociaal Wereldforum --- алтерглобалистко движение --- antiglobalizační hnutí --- κίνημα εναλλακτικής παγκοσμιοποίησης --- mouvement antimondialisation --- mișcare altermondialistă --- Weltsozialforum --- антиглобализам --- antimondialiseringsbeweging --- hnutí proti globalizaci --- глобално движење за правда --- movimiento de resistencia global --- alter-globalizačné hnutie --- движение против глобализацията --- antimondialisten --- Foro Social Mundial --- alterglobalistično gibanje --- Media --- Maatschappij --- Film --- Andersglobalisme --- gluaiseacht frithdhomhandaithe

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