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About Canada: Corporate Crime (Paperback)
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About Canada: Corporate Crime (Paperback)
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Loot Price R421
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When corporations misbehave the consequences are devastating. The
monetary costs of the 2008 financial crisis, a direct result of
financial mismanagement, were in the trillions, and yet none of
those responsible were held to account. The monetary costs of
Criminal Code theft pale in comparison, and yet our prisons are
filled with people who commit street theft. In order to understand
why governments, regulators, unions, activists and community groups
have such a difficult time preventing and sanctioning corporate
criminals we must first recognize the vital role of corporate
economic power. Focusing on crimes against workers/employees, and
the environment and financial crimes, About Canada: Corporate Crime
traces the ways that particular systems of government from
nineteenth-century crony capitalism to neoliberalism and globalized
capitalism develop policies regarding the socially harmful and
illegal behaviour of corporations. This book shows why governments
are reluctant to pass, enforce and administer meaningful regulation
of corporations: institutions and actors with the power to put
thousands of potential voters out of work, generate negative
commentaries from highly respected experts, and produce critical
editorials from 80 percent of Canadian media (owned and controlled,
let us remember, by many of these same corporations). Assessing the
present state and future prospects of corporate crime, this book
asks: How did we get here? What do we know about corporate crime?
Why does it matter? and What are the main issues/developments
today? In the end, it asks the most important question of all: How
can political and economic systems be changed to prevent, or at the
very least mitigate, the tremendous damage corporate activities are
inflicting on human lives, health, jobs, communities and
economies?"
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