Human Rights and Capitalism

Human Rights and Capitalism
Author: Janet Dine
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1845428838

Human Rights and Capitalism brings together two important facets of the globalization debate and examines the complex relationship between human rights, property rights and capitalist economies. Human rights issues have become increasingly important in this debate and their place as harbingers of justice or as an instrument of oppression is fiercely contended. Both sides of this issue are considered in the contributions to this book and the complex relationships between human rights, human dignity and capitalist economies are the themes running throughout the work. Appearing at a time when these issues are a subject of extreme controversy, this book is distinguished by its balanced and academic approach.

Human Rights Or Global Capitalism

Human Rights Or Global Capitalism
Author: Manfred Nowak
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0812248759

Human Rights or Global Capitalism examines the application of neoliberal policies from a human rights perspective and asks whether states, by outsourcing to the private sector many services with a direct impact on human rights, abdicate their responsibilities to uphold human rights and violate international law.

Profits and Principles

Profits and Principles
Author: Michael A. Santoro
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801435010

After the Tiananmen Square massacre, a vigorous international debate erupted, not only about human rights in China, but also about the role of multinational firms. Should corporations do business in China at all? Should corporations take a stand on such issues? Revelations about serious and pervasive human rights violations in Chinese factories raised even more questions about the clash of profits and principles in China.Michael Santoro investigates these and other dilemmas, exploring the democratic values firms impart to their employees and the values firms often compromise in pursuit of profits. His interviews with foreign business executives, Chinese employees of foreign firms, human rights advocates, and foreign consular officials provide a range of perspectives. His examination of business responsibility for human rights in China also serves as a unique framework for assessing the broader social trends--both positive and negative--arising from globalization.Santoro discusses the implications of business activities for U.S. foreign policy and provides practical management advice for business executives operating in China and for those considering doing so. Surprisingly, he finds that President Clinton's program of "comprehensive engagement," which has drawn severe criticism, may in fact create a positive human rights "spin-off." Santoro's "fair-share" theory is a unique and thoughtful effort to draw the line between what moral principles do and do not require of businesses operating in China.

Law and the Rise of Capitalism

Law and the Rise of Capitalism
Author: Michael Tigar
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2000-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1583670300

Tigar (Washington College of Law, American U.) has written a new introduction and extended afterword that update this Marxist analysis of law and jurisprudence, originally published in 1977. The study traces the role of law and lawyers in the rise of the European bourgeoisie. The new material discusses human rights issues and social movements over the past two decades, including political prisoners and the death penalty. c. Book News Inc.

Capitalism As Civilisation

Capitalism As Civilisation
Author: Ntina Tzouvala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108497187

Using the theoretical tools drawn from historical materialism and deconstruction, Tzouvala offers a comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation.

Climate Chaos and its Origins in Slavery and Capitalism

Climate Chaos and its Origins in Slavery and Capitalism
Author: Reva Blau
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1785275283

Climate Chaos provides readers the latest consensus among international scientists on the cascading impacts of climate change and the tipping points that today threaten to irreversibly destroy the delicate balance of the Earth’s ecosystems. The book argues that deregulation and an expansion of fossil fuel extraction have already tipped the planet towards a climate that is out of control. This crisis will cause massive human suffering when extreme weather, pollution and disease lead to displacement, food and water shortages, war, and possibly species extinction. The repression of science creates an existential crisis for humanity that has reached crisis proportions in the twentieth-first century. The scale of the crisis has prompted a call for geoengineering, large interventions into the climate by technological innovation. However, the history of colonialism and slavery make the technological and monetary elites untrustworthy to solve this humanitarian and planetary crisis. While the elites have always cast certain groups of humanity as expendable, the climate crisis makes a true humanist and egalitarian movement based in human rights and dignity not only aspirational but also existentially mandatory. The crisis demands that we remake the world into a more just and safe place for all the world’s people.

The Riddle of Human Rights

The Riddle of Human Rights
Author: Gary Teeple
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781551930398

Gary Teeple makes the case that "human rights" are peculiar to an historically given mode of production.

Human Rights Capitalism

Human Rights Capitalism
Author: John F. Halbleib
Publisher: John F Halbleib
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Capitalism
ISBN: 9781939783004

It is old news that our country faces significant challenges. Throughout our country's history, this is a common theme. What's different about today, however, is that the biggest threat to America lies not outside its borders, but within. It is our ability to govern ourselves. Most of us have come to conclude that the status quo of today will not sustain us into the future. But in recent years, we've become unsure of a vehicle to fix our quandaries. Our federal government has proven incapable of addressing many of the largest issues that stand before us. Meanwhile, most state and local governments have not fared much better. Efforts such as Occupy Wall Street, while garnering much media attention, have resulted in little in the way of tangible outcomes. So what options remain? The only one we had in the first place: ourselves, We, the People. Not just some of us, but our sovereign of all Americans as an entirety. To this end, Human Rights Capitalism contemplates a singular but far reaching question: what have we already agreed upon, not as Democrats and Republicans, but as We, the People of the United States of America? Once we can answer this, what we should do as a nation becomes self-evident. To be clear, this book is not written as a set of prescriptive policies to solve today's issues. In fact, one will find little in terms of answers to the specifics of today's concerns. This is deliberate: the change that we seek will not come through laws, regulations, or government itself. It will come through the sovereign of We, the People. The identification and creation of laws is merely a consequence of such a change. In an 1815 letter to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams wrote that the American Revolutionary War "was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people." Just as Adams explained, between 1760 and 1775, the colonists first envisaged the nation they sought, and its manifestation later came to take place. Today is no different. The America that we the sovereign seek and believe in will first materialize in our hearts and minds in the form of the sentiments of our duties and obligations to ourselves, our children, and each other. Be aware that the time to realize this change may be lengthy. Jefferson wrote that "the generation which commences a revolution rarely completes it." But as you read Human Rights Capitalism, you will understand that the question is not how long will it take, or is it necessary, but rather, "Am I living up to my Sacred American Pledge?" Remember: if any change is to happen, it must begin with us. Going forward, we have a choice to view the issues we face as problems to be dealt with, or as opportunities with which to improve the well-being of our sovereign. In reading Human Rights Capitalism, make a choice to see the situation as the latter and to better understand your role and obligation as a citizen-member of We, the People. Indeed, our future depends on it. On a personal note, in reading Human Rights Capitalism I was pleased and excited to learn much about things I thought I already knew. My pride in America strengthened as I was reminded of the rich and unparalleled legacy that we inherit from the founding citizen-members of We, the People. (Indeed, the message of Human Rights Capitalism is a positive and uplifting one). Going forward, I now possess abundantly greater hope for our future knowing that we are all in this together as a united team comprised of all citizen-members of We, the People. I wish you a similar experience in your reading. David W. Pankiewicz, Editor Reviews by political science academia and other thought leaders have been very favorable.

Human Capitalism

Human Capitalism
Author: Brink Lindsey
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-05-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0691157324

Why the rich are getting smarter while the poor are being left behind What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills—the right "human capital"—reap the majority of the economic rewards. The complexity of today's economy is not only making these lucky elites richer—it is also making them smarter. As the economy makes ever-greater demands on their minds, the successful are making ever-greater investments in education and other ways of increasing their human capital, expanding their cognitive skills and leading them to still higher levels of success. But unfortunately, even as the rich are securely riding this virtuous cycle, the poor are trapped in a vicious one, as a lack of human capital leads to family breakdown, unemployment, dysfunction, and further erosion of knowledge and skills. In this brief, clear, and forthright eBook original, Lindsey shows how economic growth is creating unprecedented levels of human capital—and suggests how the huge benefits of this development can be spread beyond those who are already enjoying its rewards.

World Crisis and Underdevelopment

World Crisis and Underdevelopment
Author: David Ingram
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2018-01-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108421814

The book examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment. It draws from discourse ethics and recognition theory in criticizing injustices and pathologies associated with underdevelopment.