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The World as a Company Town : Multinational Corporations and Social Change / ed. by Elizabeth Idris-Soven, Mary K. Vaughan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1978Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (455 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027976109
  • 9783110800081
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.18/32
LOC classification:
  • HD2755.5
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-IV -- 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: Α Symposium at the IXth 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 -- 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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I-IV -- 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: Α Symposium at the IXth 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 -- 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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