Login About | Submit | RSS Feeds
Cultural Shifts

Search Results


On Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

By Matthew Lymburner — Monday, December 31st, 2007 (Posted in Reviews)

… could conceivably have worked to smooth the sharply unequal power relations structuring people’s material living conditions and ideal identities, just as the “dictatorship of the proletariat” might have made the transition from ‘actually existing socialism’ to a more idealized, and hitherto unrealized, form.
Still, one must concede that the impetus for Rocker’s rhetorical …




Making the Case for Corporate Social Responsibility

By David Cavett-Goodwin — Monday, December 3rd, 2007 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… rights, and installing a sense of integrity within the workers to do the “right thing” in every situation, for the benefit of the firm.
Starbucks was selected because of its specific brand appeal, and because of the large amount of information regarding its CSR programs. The company tries to portray itself, quite successfully, as a socially responsible citizen; a social environment …




Fair Trade and Global Justice: The Case of Bananas in St. Vincent

By Anna Torgerson — Friday, November 30th, 2007 (Posted in Essays & Articles, X-Featured)

… Hit by Free Trade”. The Guardian. August 10, 2005. www.cpa.org.au/garch…
Helleiner, Eric. “Great Transformations: A Polanyian Perspective on the Contemporary Global Financial Order.” Studies in Political Economy 48 (Autumn 1995): 149-164.
Isaacs, Philemore. “Banana Production in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG)” in Organic Banana 2000: Towards an Organic Banana …




The Gin Craze: Drink, Crime & Women in 18th Century London

By Elise Skinner — Friday, November 30th, 2007 (Posted in Essays & Articles, X-Featured)

… A History of Gin. (London: Peter Owen Limited, 1976).




Care & Cash: A More Economic Approach to Criticizing Sweatshops

By Matthew Prime — Saturday, November 24th, 2007 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… in developing nations. In these developing nations, the cost of living is a fraction of what is required relative to developed nations. As a result, market forces, which are best described as the “interaction of supply and demand that shape a market economy”, require that employers pay wages that are only a fraction of what would be paid in more developed economies. From the …




Rethinking neo-liberalism

By Eliot Che — Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 (Posted in Reviews)

… in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong (chapter 9).
Neo-liberalism as exception is also a critique of juridical-legal interpretations of the connections between citizenship and government. Ong argues that this method is evident in Giorgio Agamben’s focus on the bifurcation of the population into two halves: zones of citizenship, consisting of political beings, and zones of bare life, …