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1) Company Town
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking investigative documentary, one man goes up against one of the nation's largest paper mill and chemical plants in a bid to save his town from sickness-causing pollution.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First American edition
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story of the modern concert industry, revealing the origins, development and ongoing strategies of such companies as Ticketmaster, Live Nation and StubHub and numerous independent competitors.
3) Bananas
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A multi-layered courtroom drama about the global politics of food, the dynamics of 1st and 3rd world nations, and human rights at its simplest through a landmark legal case pitting a dozen Nicaraguan plantation workers against Dole.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations?like minorities and women?have had a civil rights movement of their own, and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 2016, the fate of Paramount--the entertainment conglomerate that includes Viacom, CBS, and Simon & Schuster--hung precariously in the balance. Its founder and head, ninety-three-year-old Sumner M. Redstone, was facing a very public lawsuit brought by a former romantic companion, Manuela Herzer--a lawsuit that placed Sumner's deteriorating health and questionable judgment under a harsh light. As one of the last in a long line of all-powerful media...
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