1. Introduction: The Corporate Spread -- 2. Why Poor Countries 'Want' the Corporations -- 3. The Agri-corporations: From Production to Trade -- 4. Agri-commodities Take Their Toll -- 5. Extracting Logs and Fish -- 6. Mining the Poor -- 7. Manufactured Goods: Poverty amid the Glitz -- 8. Energy: No Force for the Poor -- 9. Tourism: The Great Illusion -- 10. Health: The Poor Take the Corporate Pill -- 11. The Corporate Persuaders -- 12. Tackling the Power
Summary
"What is the effect of transnational corporations (TNCs) on the world's poor? In his exploration of this little-investigated aspect of their activities, John Madeley's charge is that TNC power is causing hardship for millions of the poor in developing countries."--BOOK JACKET. "This readable book places on the agenda what ought to be purposes of giant enterprises and charts new ways in which we can seek to influence them."--BOOK JACKET
