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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
Published The Hague : Mouton, 1978

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 455 pages)
Series World anthropology
World anthropology.
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 -- The blocked path : international labor and the multinationals / Bruce Vandervort -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The "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 -- The 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 -- The nationalization of copper in Chile : antecedents and consequences / Al Gedicks -- Automobiles : an obstacle to socialist construction / David Barkin
Notes "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
Notes Papers of a panel on multinational corporations held at the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Oshkosh and Chicago, 1973
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Subject International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- Congresses
International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- Developing countries -- Congresses
International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- Congresses
International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- Developing countries -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
International business enterprises -- Social aspects
Multinationales Unternehmen
Sozialer Wandel
Developing countries
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Idris-Soven, Ahamed, 1947-
Idris-Soven, Elizabeth, 1950-
Vaughan, Mary K., 1942-
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago, Ill.)
ISBN 9783110800081
311080008X