Tag: corporations
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Assessing the view that TNCs harm developing countries.
It’s fairly standard practice in A level sociology to teach that transnational corporations are basically evil and harm developing countries. I subverted this a little bit today and got students to make presentations assessing this view. The instructions were quite simple: Outline four case studies of corporations harming developing countries. Outline three to four imitations…
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Arguments and Evidence that Transnational Corporations Harm Developing Countries
Dependency theorists criticise TNCs for extracting resources, exploiting workers and preventing development
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Philip Green, the Collapse of BHS and the Continued Relevance of Marxist Theory
This is a useful documentary on the role of billionaire Philip Green in the collapse of British Home Stores, which demonstrates the relevance of some key concepts within Marxism. British Home Stores was one of the best known high street retail stores in Britain for many decades, employing thousands of people, but in 2016 it went…
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The Marxist Perspective on Crime
Focuses on how crime is a ‘natural outgrowth of the capitalist system and how the criminal justice system works for the benefits of elites and against the lower social classes.
