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Toxic Capitalism: Corporate Crime and the Chemical Industry - Corporate Crime and the Chemical Industry (Hardcover)
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Toxic Capitalism: Corporate Crime and the Chemical Industry - Corporate Crime and the Chemical Industry (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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Originally published in 1998. While there is a growing academic
literature on corporate crime, much of this focuses upon variants
of economic or financial crimes; there is a relative absence of
studies of safety, health and/or environmental crimes. This is
curious given that recent years have witnessed a resurgence in
popular, academic and indeed state attention to questions related
to environmental degradation and human safety. Certainly in the
latter context there is some recognition that environmental
degradation must be understood partly in terms of environmental
crimes by corporations. Moreover, recent experience in both the US
and the UK attests to the fact that there is no ineluctable trend
towards safer and healthier workplaces, as deregulatory movements
have resulted in increased risks for most workers and, this text
argues, an increased opportunity for, and incidence of, safety
crimes. At the centre of environmental, safety and health isses lie
the chemicals industries. These industries are of strategic
importance to national economies, while also having almost unique
hazard and risk potential and it is for these reasons that these
are the focus of this text. Any understanding of the nature of
these types of corporate crimes, and thus any recognition of the
potential for their more effective regulation, requires an analysis
that is grounded in more general sociological concerns and in
political economy. For this reason, this text emphasises the need
for understandings of the nature of contemporary and emergent forms
of corporate organisation, of their place in contemporary
economies, and of the relationships between these forms and state
formations.
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