Category: Transnational corporations
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Food Inc – A Summary
This is a Superb documentary which demonstrates the downsides of the industrialisation of the food system in the USA. It is relevant to the following areas of Global Development within A level Sociology. Illustrating the downsides of Industrialisation Illustrating unfair trade rules (corn is subsidised in America) Illustrating the downsides of forced neoliberalisation Illustrating the…
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Union Carbide – The Worst Industrial Accident in History
Possibly the strongest piece of case-study evidence supporting the Marxist view of crime In December 1984, an explosion at a pesticide plant in Bhopal India, then owned by the American multi-national Union Carbide, lead to deadly gas fumes leaking into the surrounding atmosphere and toxic chemicals into the ground. That was more than 25 years,…
