INTRODUCTION
September 6
WHAT'S AT STAKE
September 13
Human Rights Watch, The Price of Oil: Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria's Oil Producing Communities [available at reserve library or http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/nigeria/index.htm].
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
September 20
Marx, "The German Ideology," pp. 164-175.Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, pp. 1-14.
Weber, "Bureaucracy" [on reserve only].
Mills, "The Higher Circles."
THE RISE OF BIG BUSINESS
September 27
Porter, The Rise of Big Business, 1860-1920.Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, chaps. 7-8.
CORPORATE IDEOLOGIES
October 4
Roland Marchand, "Confessions and Rebuttals: The Plight of the Soulless Corporation."Roland Marchand, "Advertisements as Social Tableaux."
Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, chaps. 3-4.
INTERCORPORATE NETWORKS
October 11
Useem, The Inner Circle.
recommended reading
FALL BREAK: October 15-21
October 25
Due: term paper proposal.Evans and Wurster, Blown to Bits, especially chaps. 1-6 and 10.
recommended reading
G. William Domhoff, "Setting the Stage" and "How the Rockefeller Network Shaped Social Security" [on reserve only].
Koji Taira and Teiichi Wada, "Business-Government Relations in Modern Japan: A Todai-Yakkai-Zaikai Complex?"
POST-FORDISM
November 1
Barry Blueston and Bennett Harrison, "Managerial Capitalism and the Economic Crisis: 1971-?" [on reserve only].Michael J. Piore and Charles F. Sabel, "Corporate Responses to the Crisis."
Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, chaps. 9-11.
November 8
Class cancelled.
GLOBALIZATION?
November 15
Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest: The Highjacking of the Global Food Supply.Janet Wasko, "Around the World in Nanoseconds: International Markets for Filmed Entertainment."
COMMODITY CULTURE
November 22
Giroux, The Mouse that Roared.
NEW SITES OF CORPORATE POWER
November 29
Dot-com Culture Clash (by Barbara Kelley, Salon.com, August 23, 2000).I.B.M.'s Revival in Hudson Valley Gets a Ho-Hum (by David Chen, New York Times, October 12, 2000).
Leonard Nevarez, "Corporate Philanthropy in the New Urban Economy." [For printed version, stop by Mr. Nevarez's office]
recommended reading
Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, chapters 14, 17, 19-23, 26-27.
Present case-study research for term papers.
2:30-4:30, location TBA: Present case-study research for term papers (cont.). [Rescheduled from cancelled 11/8 class.]
Due: final term paper.