De Gruyter Mouton The World as a Company Town: Multinational Corporations and Social Change (World Anthropology)

xi, 455 pages : 24 cm. Papers of a panel on multinational corporations held at the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Oshkosh and Chicago, 1973. Contents: Introduction / Ahamed Idris-Soven, Elizabeth Idris-Soven, Mary K. Vaughan -- Sec. one. The multinational corporation in a global context -- Multinational corporations : the world as a company town / Mary K. Vaughan -- The blocked path : international labor and the multinationals / Bruce Vandervort -- The multinational corporation as a stage in the development of capitalism / Deltec Research Project -- Ecology and ideology / Anthony Wilden -- Financial colonies : inflation, recession, debt, and the multinational corporation / Gregory A. Palast -- Sec. two. The multinational corporation and the social scientist -- Applied research on the multinational corporation : a symposium at the IX International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences / Ahamed Idris-Soven [and others] -- Anthropology and multinational power : some ethical considerations on social research in the underdeveloped countries / Gerrit Huizer -- Alternatives to ethnocide : human zoos, living museums, and real people / John H. Bodley -- Sec. three. The multinational corporation and social change -- The social responsibility of anthropological science in the context of contemporary Brazil / Shelton H. Davis -- New strategies for multinational enterprise in the Third World : Deltec in Brazil and Argentina / Deltec Research Project -- The "Native Reserves" (Bantustans) and the role of the migrant labor system in the political economy of South Africa / Bernard Magubane -- Export-oriented industrialization through the multinational corporation : evidence from Kenya / Steven W. Langdon -- Plantations, peasants, and proletariat in the West Indies : an essay on agrarian capitalism and alienation / George Beckford -- The role of peasant organizations in the struggle against multinational corporati