Transnational corporations Archives

The Scale of the World’s Largest Corporations

I thought it’d be useful to do a little post on the sheer scale of global corporations, so below I […]

It’s fairly standard practice in A level sociology to teach that transnational corporations are basically evil and harm developing countries.

ExxonMobil is the world’s largest oil and gas corporation – its main ‘business lines’ involve producing a range of fuels

Glencore is one of the world’s largest commodities companies – it operates in 150 countries extracting natural resources such as

We’ve probably all heard of companies such as Walmart, Amazon, Apple, and Shell, and these are all examples of Transnational

Dependency theorists criticise TNCs for extracting resources, exploiting workers and preventing development

Karl Thompson / February 28, 2017

A summary of the benefits TNCs can bring to developing countries Relevance to wider global development debates Want to place

In this talk Noam Chomsky emphasises that Trump’s election and his climate change denial threaten the very existence of the

Karl Thompson / October 24, 2016

Naomi Klein is one of the leading thinkers in the anti-capitalist movement and this book is one of the most

Karl Thompson / September 19, 2016

This is a Superb documentary which demonstrates the downsides of the industrialisation of the food system in the USA. It