Introduction

JANUARY 24

Corporate influence in America

JANUARY 31

Mills, The Power Elite.

"Apple 'falsified' files on Steve Jobs' Options" (MSNBC, December 28, 2006).

 

The powers of big business

FEBRUARY 7

Porter, The Rise of Big Business, 1860-1920.

Scott, Power, chaps. 1-2.

Horizontal integration vs. vertical integration

Power over corporations

FEBRUARY 14

John Scott, "Structures of Corporate Control."  Chap. 3, pp. 35-55, in Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes (Oxford, 1997).

Michael Useem, "When Investors Challenge Company Performance." Chap. 2, pp. 38-69, in Investor Capitalism (Basic, 1996).

Scott, Power, chap. 4, pp. 71-86.

Google To Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock

IBM Board of Directors

 

Corporations versus communities

FEBRUARY 21

LeRoy, The Great American Jobs Scam.

Scott, Power, chap. 5.

Neoliberalism

FEBRUARY 28

David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism.

Scott, Power, chap. 3.

Corporate social responsibility

MARCH 7

Holliday et al., Walking the Talk (skip chaps. 3, 5).

"Guilt-Free Pollution. Or Is it?" (New York Times, February 20, 2007).

"A Buyout Deal That Has Many Shades of Green" (New York Times, February 26, 2007).

Corporate cultures

MARCH 28

Welch, Jack: Straight from the Gut.

Scott, Power, chap. 7.

APRIL 4

Frank & Mulcahey, Boob Jubilee, chaps. 1-3, 6-14, 16, 18-29.

Scott, Power, chap. 4, pp. 87-91.

Corporate power in global context

APRIL 11

Due: 1-page term-paper proposals.

Beck, Power in the Global Age, chaps. 1, 3-5.

The future of corporate power?

APRIL 18

Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box.

APRIL 25

Presentations of term-paper case studies.

MAY 2

Presentations of term-paper case studies.

FINALS WEEK

Term papers due Wednesday, December 16 by 5 pm.