The Underbelly of the U. S. Economy: Joblessness and the Pauperization of Work in America

David Dembo

Apex Press

Corporate Power and the American Dream: Toward an Economic Agenda for Working People

Business & Money

Labor Instiutue (OCAW 8-149)

Economics

The Underbelly of the U.S. Economy: Joblessness and the Pauperization of Work in America

Dembo, David

How's business going? If you're like most business owners you'll likely respond with a reluctant "Good!" Unfortunately, the harsh reality is that the majority of businesses will not make it past year 10. If they do survive, they only do so for a couple of years due to a growing economy. Once the inevitable down market hits, these businesses are wiped out and are forced to close shop. Inside the pages of this book, Prolific Profit: How Successful Business Maximize Profits and Dominate the Market, you will uncover the secrets to making your business succeed long-term, become more profitable and dominate the market like never before. The chapters herein examine:	- How your current accountant is killing your business	- How to gain clarity and laser-beam focus on your target	- How to consistently increase cash flow	- How to save $10,000 to $100,000 in taxes	- How to pick the best legal entity for your business	- How to understand your financials and take strategic actions	- How to grow your profits with less money and time	- And much more?Once you have mastered the techniques that are described in this book you will be equipped with all the tools you need to dominate your market and change the world. Michel shares his C.P.A. Success System, which has transformed the lives of countless entrepreneurs. By working with a Profit Producing Professional (a licensed accountant that increases profits), your business will transform and experience explosive growth in the form ofProlific Profit.

Prolific Profit: How Successful Businesses Maximize Profits and Dominate the Market

Valbrun, Michel

Accounting

In these 70 essays, speeches, sermons and screeds, POCLADers probe: corporations as "legal persons"; corporate social responsibility as a ploy; strategies for amending state corporation codes and challenging judge-made laws; and much, much more. The Program on Corporations, Law &amp; Democracy (POCLAD) was created in 1995 to instigate conversations and actions that contest the authority of corporations to define our culture, govern our nation, and plunder the Earth. Seeking to strengthen institutions that disperse, rather than concentrate, wealth and power, POCLAD works to fulfill the democratic ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. This collection, which Howard Zinn calls "powerfully persuasive," chronicles POCLAD's evolution among the twelve POCLADers and with thousands of activists. Here are hidden histories, crisp analyses and thoughtful responses to corporate apologists all in one provocative book.

Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History & Strategy

Dean Ritz

Business

You Call This a Democracy? is a penetrating and troubling look at how the U.S. ruling class and the power elite dominate wealth, power and decision-making in all aspects of our lives and institutions. Arguing that the United States has always had a ruling class, this book does not focus on the current administration or rogue corporations, but presents a deeper, longer-term analysis of how the ruling class has created and uses the Constitution, corporations and the courts, as well as a host of other mechanisms such as tax laws, wars, buffer zones, and distractions, to dominate our society and accumulate wealth. The book is carefully researched and referenced, and filled with numerous examples and illustrations. It is an indispensable resource for every person concerned about the undemocratic concentration of wealth and power in our society. This revised second printing adds a new workshop and classroom friendly study guide which makes this an easy to use book for activists and educators focused on issues of poverty, inequality, multiculturalism, diversity, politics, and economic, racial, and gender justice. The new Afterword includes practical suggestions for incorporating democratic practice in our everyday family, classroom and workplace processes. You Call This a Democracy? is being used in high school and college classes, in study groups, in religious based social justice projects, and by activists throughout the country because it provides a framework and common vocabulary to talk about issues of economic justice and to help guide people's everyday decisions and political involvement. What People are Saying: You Call this a Democracy? is a powerful tool for those seeking to understand and change the oppressive economic, political, ideological and cultural institutions of contemporary society. Victor Rosado, Left Turn Magazine, February/March 2005 Paul Kivel has done it again by exploding another myth about our troubled land the nation that we Americans call "middle class." Instead he shows us how we are ruled by a handful of top dogs and what we must do if we want to get those dogs out of our lives. Hurray! Jim Hightower, author of Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush and other works of political subversion. Paul Kivel's courage to identify the structure of the ruling class and the impact of its power is a gift to all of us who seek justice and equality. This book should be a required text in classrooms throughout the country. Suzanne Pharr, author of In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation, former director of the Highlander Research and Education Center. Paul Kivel has written an accessible field guide to our country's power elite and how they rule the rest of us. All citizens should read this book to better understand the powerful forces that distort our democracy and misshape the quality of our lives in a thousand different ways. Chuck Collins, co-author (with Bill Gates senior) of Wealth and Our Commonwealth and co-founder of United for a Fair Economy

You Call This Democracy?: : Who Benefits, Who Pays, Who Really Decides

Politics & Social Sciences

Paul Kivel

Sociology

This book on the notorious Bhopal gas leak shows why this industrial disaster has become a permanent symbol of corporate irresponsibility and technological abandon for the citizens of our planet. The tragedy unleashed by an American multinational corporation (Union Carbide) killed more than 15,000 people on the night of December 3, 1984 in the densely populated Indian city of Bhopal. A valuable reference text for industrial accidents and corporate crimes as well as a handbook for research, prevention and activism, the collection includes gripping first person stories of some of the 200,000 permanently-injured survivors, activists, journalists, scientists, doctors, government and corporate officials. This anthology brings together never-before published testimonies, archival documents translated from Hindi, legal and scientific evidence and commentary, social analysis, even corporate perspectives on liability, and web debates, with comprehensive introductions for each aspect of the disaster. This chronicle of a 21-year campaign against two of the world's most powerful chemical corporations, Union Carbide and Dow Chemical Co. (which now owns Union Carbide), parallels the emergence of public understanding of environmental safety and corporate accountability that Bhopal helped to create. In l984, the deadly pesticide used in Bhopal and in the United States was hailed by agro business as part of its "revolution." The Bhopal Reader documents forces that are even now bringing Bhopali women to the very doors of the corporation in protest. Some 21 years later, the drinking water is contaminated because Union Carbide never cleaned up its abandoned factory with bags of stored chemicals, causing genetic damage to yet another generation from the deadly methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas. The book reports on the international Bhopal campaign being waged today by survivors, activists, lawyers, doctors in India, the U.S., Britain and elsewhere around the world for compensation for all the Bhopal victims. It takes its readers across continents, into newspapers, television stations, websites, courtrooms, shareholders annual meetings, campuses, and chemical plants. The Bhopal Reader presents a valuable case study of the complexities of fighting for justice in a world increasingly overrun by the politics of corporate rule under globalization. Its voices herald the dialogues that will dominate this new century and The Bhopal Reader is the indispensable guide to understanding them.

The Bhopal Reader: Remembering Twenty Years of the World's Worst Industrial Disaster

Morehouse, Ward

Hanna, Bridget

Sarangi, Satinath

Industries

Economics, culture, and society: Alternative approaches, dissenting views from economic orthodoxy

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