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Title The world as a company town : multinational corporations and social change / editors, Ahamed Idris-Soven, Elizabeth Idris-Soven, Mary K. Vaughan.

Publication Info. The Hague : Mouton, 1978.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 455 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series World anthropology
World anthropology.
Note "Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Aldine, Chicago."
Papers prepared for the 19th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Note Papers of a panel on multinational corporations held at the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Oshkosh and Chicago, 1973.
Contents Introduction / Ahamed Idris-Soven, Elizabeth Idris-Soven, Mary K. Vaughan -- Sec. one. The multinational corporation in a global context -- Multinational corporations : the world as a company town / Mary K. Vaughan -- Blocked path : international labor and the multinationals / Bruce Vandervort -- Multinational corporation as a stage in the development of capitalism / Deltec Research Project -- Ecology and ideology / Anthony Wilden -- Financial colonies : inflation, recession, debt, and the multinational corporation / Gregory A. Palast -- Sec. 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 / Ahamed Idris-Soven [and others] -- Anthropology and multinational power : some ethical considerations on social research in the underdeveloped countries / Gerrit Huizer -- Alternatives to ethnocide : human zoos, living museums, and real people / John H. Bodley -- Sec. three. The multinational corporation and social change -- Social responsibility of anthropological science in the context of contemporary Brazil / Shelton H. Davis -- New strategies for multinational enterprise in the Third World : Deltec in Brazil and Argentina / Deltec Research Project -- "Native Reserves" (Bantustans) and the role of the migrant labor system in the political economy of South Africa / Bernard Magubane -- Export-oriented industrialization through the multinational corporation : evidence from Kenya / Steven W. Langdon -- Plantations, peasants, and proletariat in the West Indies : an essay on agrarian capitalism and alienation / George Beckford -- Role of peasant organizations in the struggle against multinational corporations : the Cuban case / Gerrit Huizer -- Taxes, tourists, and Turtlemen : island dependency and the tax-haven business / Nina Davis Caulfield -- Notes on a corporate "Potlatch" : the lumber industry in Samoa / Paul Shankman -- Nationalization of copper in Chile : antecedents and consequences / Al Gedicks -- Automobiles : an obstacle to socialist construction / David Barkin.
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Subject International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
International business enterprises -- Social aspects.
International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Developing countries.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Idris-Soven, Ahamed, 1947-
Idris-Soven, Elizabeth, 1950-
Vaughan, Mary K., 1942-
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago)
Other Form: Print version: World as a company town. The Hague [Noordeinde 41] : Mouton, 1978 9027976104 (DLC) 79311328 (OCoLC)5312155
ISBN 9783110800081 (electronic book)
311080008X (electronic book)
9027976104
9789027976109
0202900703
9780202900704