Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.53 (764 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1620970082 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-02-28 |
Language | : | English |
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Work moves seamlessly across national boundaries, yet the laws that protect us from rapacious behavior remain tied to national governments. The truth is that our systems of industrial production today are just as dirty and abusive as they were during the depths of the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age, but the ugly side of manufacturing is now hidden in faraway places where workers are most vulnerable.Today, American capitalists threaten that any environmental regulations will drive up the cost of production and force them to relocate our jobs to a country where they don’t face such laws and can re-create their toxic work conditions. In his insightful book, Loomis shows that the great environmental victories of twentieth-century Americathe Clean Water Act, the Clean Air
corporations to produce abroad is to avoid the regulations that books like The Jungle produced. Highly recommended."Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity, Dhaka"A passionate condemnation of the power that corporations hold over our lives, Erik Loomis shows that capitalism’s geography is a central element in class conflicts."Andrew Herod, Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia"Erik Loomis shows that our systems remain broken, and it is our planet and her people, particularly the most marginalized communities, who are paying the price. The story told here is tragic and important."Bill McKibben, author of D
Amazon Customer said Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. Most of us have had at least some exposure to the history of the labor movement in the US. Things like the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Pullman strike are pretty common parts of even high school history classes (or, used to be). So we have a rough idea of how bad things used to be and how we got to the relatively enlightened time we live in now.What Erik Loomis does in this book is flesh-out the . J. Edgar Mihelic, MBA said Needs a Hero. During a twitter fight that involved me, a socialist, and a libertarian, I was recommended to buy two separate books - this book by Erik Loomis and William Easterly’s “The Tyranny of Experts”. Because of course the best time to buy books is based on recommendations in twitter fights.Overall, the information is good here. I am one of those Pro-Free Trade Marxists you hear about all t. The Hidden, Human Costs of Corporate Malfeasance "Corporations haven't improved since the worst days of the industrial era; they've simply gotten better at hiding their misdeeds from consumers." That's the essence of Erik Loomis's concise survey of corporate behavior in the 20th and early 21st centuries. When increasingly empowered American workers joined with consumers who became concerned about the cost of domestic labor and environmental abuses,