1st Edition
Toxic Capitalism Corporate Crime and the Chemical Industry
372 Pages
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Routledge
384 Pages
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Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1998. While there is a growing academic literature on corporate crime, much of this focuses upon variants of economic or financial crimes; there is a relative absence of studies of safety, health and/or environmental crimes. This is curious given that recent years have witnessed a resurgence in popular, academic and indeed state attention to questions related to... Read more
Part I: Capitalism, Corporations and Crime. 1. Dreams of Capitalism: Neoliberalism and Contemporary Economies. 2. Constructing and Conceptualising Capitalisms: Beyond Neoliberalism. 3. Corporate Crime. Part II: Corporate Crime in the Chemical Industry. 4. Understanding 'Accidents' in the Chemical Industry. 5. The Corporate Production of Safety and Environmental Crimes in the Chemical Industry: The Case of Major Hazards. 6. Bhopal, Union Carbide and the International Chemical Industry. Part III: Hazards, Regulation and Class. 7. Policing, Regulation and Ideology. 8. Hegemony and Risk. 9. Conclusion: Regulating Toxic Capitalism.
Biography
Frank Pearce (Author) , Steve Tombs (Author)
