Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (830 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1620970082 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 of how bad things used to be and how we got to the re. "Needs a Hero" according to 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 is based on recommendations in twitter fights.Overall,. 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 w
Perhaps Out of Sight can prompt a similar movement on behalf of workers around the world, our planetary environment, and, yes, we who wear the clothes and eat the sausage that they’ produce."James Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me"In this dazzling overview of industrial history, Erik Loomis shows how we canno, we mustfight for both decent jobs and a clean environment. Loomis’s blunt, witty, take-no-prisoners style always promises an exciting read."Sarah Jaffe. Highly recommended."Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh C
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. 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 history is a call to action: when we fight for our planet, we fight for our own