Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00VPPYFC8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 217 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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In his insightful book, Loomis shows that the great environmental victories of twentieth-century Americathe Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the EPAwere actually union victories. This situation creates an all-too-familiar race to the bottom,” where profit is generated on the backs of workers and at the cost of toxic pollution.In Out of Sight, Erik Loomisa historian of both the labor and environmental movementsfollows the thread that runs from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York in 1911 to the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2013. When jobs can move anywhere in the world, bosses have no incentive to protect either their workers or the environment. It wasn’t always like this. Work moves seamlessly across national boundaries, yet the laws that protect us from rapacious behavior remain tied to national governments. This history is a call to action: when we fight for our planet, we fight for our own dignity as workers and citizens.. 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 fa
Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable Amazon Customer 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. Needs a Hero J. Edgar Mihelic, MBA 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 . T.E. Shaw said 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 "The Hidden, Human Costs of Corporate Malfeasance" according to T.E. Shaw. "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.. 0th and early "The Hidden, Human Costs of Corporate Malfeasance" according to T.E. Shaw. "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.. 1st centuries.
We can do so by not letting the corporations escape out of sight.’ We need to think and act as globally as corporations do, and force them to respect rights wherever they go. This book is a must-read for people who care about jobs and the environment."Aviva Chomsky, professor of history at Salem State University and author of Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal"Well-written and informative shows the many strong connections between workplace catastrophes, poor working conditions, diseases, and environmental disasters. Praise for Erik Loomis:"A detailed and devastating critique by a brilliant historian."John Nichols, The Progressive"The arrival of Out of Sight could not have