CRITICAL
MANAGEMENT
- Critical Management Web Site (press
here). Following links suggested by Charles Booth
- c-m-workshop (press
here)
- crit-geog-forum (critical geography
forum) (press
here)
- radical-psychology-network (press
here)
- Radstats (Radical Statistics group) (press
here)
- pedcritacc (Pedagogical Uses of
Critical Thinking in Accounting) (press
here)
- Pedagogical story of MAN WHO KNEW TOO
MUCH by Ruth Shalit (press
here).
- Communications for a Sustainable
Future (press
here) also host a number of lists, including:
- Movement for a Participatory Economy
by Michael Albert (press
here).
his plan is to create a social movement
against predatory capitalism:
- Pentagon Capitalism excerpted
from article by Vijay Prashad Z magazine - March, 1997(press
here). Military Industrial Complex - Source: Third World
Traveler
- Military Spending vs Everything Else
by Eric Weltman (press
here) Dollars and Sense magazine, January/February
2000 - Most progressive activists would probably agree that
the United States spends too much on its war machine. So why
isn't more organizing done around this issue?Source: Third
World Traveler
- Third World Traveler - Links on
Critical Issues in Management/Organization - e.g.
Transnational Corporate Behavior - (press
here). main page -- Third
World Traveler
- Union Sites -
Labor Left Briefing Sites
- LIFE AFTER CAPITALISM - Presentation for Edmonton,
Calgary, and Saskatoon By David C. Korten November 1998
"We must face up to the obvious fact that capitalism's
failures are an inevitable consequence of embracing values and
institutions that favor money over life. To create a world in
which life can flourish and prosper we must recreate our
economies based on values and institutions that honor life,
serve life's needs, and restore money as a means of
exchange" (press
here). or (press
here).
- NEWS ITEMS
- Sunday
April 8, 2001 The Observer The
Observer argues that governments' surrender to big
business is the deadliest threat facing democracy today...
Unregulated or under-regulated by governments,
corporations set the terms of engagement themselves. In
the Third World we see a race to the bottom:
multinationals pitting developing countries against each
other to provide the most advantageous conditions for
investment, with no regulation, no red tape, no unions, a
blind eye turned to environmental degradation.
- January 31, 2001 Global economy: shifting the
balance of power By Suzanne Elston - The balance of global
economic power has shifted from governments to corporate
boardrooms. According to a new study by
the Institute for Policy Studies, 51 of the largest 100
economies in the world are corporations, not countries (Environmental
News Network).
- February 7, 2000 - [From a
press statement released by Penn Students Against
Sweatshops] Thirteen University of Pennsylvania
undergraduate students occupied the office of
University President Judith Rodin at noon on Monday,
February 7. Penn Students Against Sweatshops (PSAS)
is demanding that the university take steps to
end its association with sweatshop labor.
- January 30, 2000- Traits Only
a Boss Could Love (press
here). by RACHEL-LEHMANN-HAUPT NY TIMES . "But
Noel M. Tichy, a professor of organizational behavior
at the University of Michigan's business school,
called Maccoby's work unscholarly. "I think it's an
irresponsible article that labels people without proper
empirical data," Tichy said in an interview.
"He hasn't met half of these people. He just picked a
sexy label and put a negative spin on what all leaders
should be doing."
- In a Campaign for Labor Rights
alert posted on January 12, Campaign for Labor Rights
reported large-scale firings aimed at breaking the
union at Jem III, a factory which produces clothing
for Wal-Mart. Jem III is part of JEM Sportswear, based
in San Fernando, California (press
here).