![]() | THE CORPORATION [1/23] What is a Corporation? 1. The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order, please click on: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
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![]() | THE CORPORATION [11/23] Basic Training 11. Marketing has transformed itself into a sophisticated, pervasive force that extends into every part of our lives. Slick advertising campaigns are designed for the express purpose of manipulating children into buying products and training them to become mindless consumers of goods they don't really want. The Nag factor, a marketing study that evaluated the effect of nagging, was designed to teach children how to nag more effectively. Consumers are made, not born. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
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![]() | THE CORPORATION [19/23] Taking The Right Side 19. The rise of fascism has links to corporate power. American corporations played a role in Nazi Germany and the holocaust, such as IBM's punchcard machines that tabulated the victims' data. Corporate allegiance to profit trumps their allegiance to nationalism. |
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![]() | THE CORPORATION [2/23] Birth 2. How the corporation came to be. Originally, corporations were set up to serve the public good. Corporation lawyers gained rights through the US Supreme Court using the 14th Amendment (set up to protect slaves) that gives them the rights of a person. In the last century, the corporation is given more and more rights while people are increasingly stripped of theirs. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |
![]() | Ray Anderson on Sustainability Ray Anderson discusses corporate responsibility and the environment. Extract from The Corporation - 2004 |
![]() | THE CORPORATION [5/23] Case Histories 5. Case histories can be used to diagnose the kind of personality that makes the corporation an externality-creating machine. Externalities such as harm to employees through the use of sweatshops: the exploitation of Third World countries' employees resulting in a huge discrepancy of price versus cost. Other externalities such as pollution and adverse health effects emerge. These include the genesis of the petrochemical industry and links to cancer, birth defects and other toxic effects. Another externality is harm to the biosphere or the environmental costs resulting from the way corporations operate, costs that will be passed off to future generations. Have we created a doom machine? For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FA50FBC214A6CE87 |