Author: Sue Goldstein
Publisher: Shopping Business
ISBN: 9780971159808
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Author: Robert B. Reich
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307267857
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which politicians are more beholden to the influence of business lobbyists than to the voters who elected them. Powerful and thought-provoking, Supercapitalism argues that a clear separation of politics and capitalism will foster an enviroment in which both business and government thrive, by putting capitalism in the service of democracy, and not the other way around.

Author: Kevin D. Walker
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1610919475
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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When it comes to food, Americans seem to have a pretty great deal. Our grocery stores are overflowing with countless varieties of convenient products. But like most bargains that are too good to be true, the modern food system relies on an illusion. It depends on endless abundance, but the planet has its limits. So too does a healthcare system that must absorb rising rates of diabetes and obesity. So too do the workers who must labor harder and faster for less pay. Through beautifully-told stories from around the world, Kevin Walker reveals the unintended consequences of our myopic focus on quantity over quality. A trip to a Costa Rica plantation shows how the Cavendish banana became the most common fruit in the world and also one of the most vulnerable to disease. Walker’s early career in agribusiness taught him how pressure to sell more and more fertilizer obscured what that growth did to waterways. His family farm illustrates how an unquestioning belief in “free markets” undercut opportunity in his hometown. By the end of the journey, we not only understand how the drive to produce ever more food became hardwired into the American psyche, but why shifting our mindset is essential. It starts, Walker argues, with remembering that what we eat affects the wider world. If each of us decides that bigger isn’t always better, we can renegotiate the grand food bargain, one individual decision at a time.

Author: Tracy L. Kinne
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468558099
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Herein lies the story of some of the many low-wage workers in the United States shortly before, during and after the Great Recession of 2007 through 2009. It is the story of hard-working, intelligent people who long for a living wage and basic benefits. It is the story of senior citizens, mostly women, who can't make ends meet on Social Security, and young people recently graduated from college who can't find a job in their chosen field.

Author: George Henry Powell
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Category : Advertisements, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 1272

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Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Anne Baker
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 0755382498
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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A mother and daughter fight for their right to happiness and freedom. Anne Baker writes a moving saga in Like Father Like Daughter, in which a young girl struggles for a brighter tomorrow for herself and the mother she loves. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Lyn Andrews. Rebelling against the domineering man she believes to be her father, Elin Jones runs away from her Welsh home to find a job on Merseyside as a maid in the wealthy Oxley household. Seduced and left pregnant by the son of the family, she feels forced to marry the butler, but finds herself condemned to a life of abuse and poverty. Only her love for her daughter, Laura, keeps Elin going. Laura grows up with her natural father's intelligence and drive, as well as his talent for business, and when she seizes the chance to buy an ailing company, it is the start of a meteoric career. But Laura's personal life is less of a success, and it will take a twist of fate to enable Laura and her mother to find love and happiness. What readers are saying about Like Father Like Daughter: 'Very moving story line. It was as though you were in the story with Elin and Laura - excellent book'