Rise of the corporate state

Type :

Case study

Pages :

7 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

08/10/2009

Category :

Economics & finance

Sub category :

Economics

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Summary :

Introduction
Background: The battle between labor and capital
1. The role played by the law enforcement agencies
2. Taking land away from farmers
3. The relationship shared by industry and government
Politics: Who gets what?
1. The royalties, interest and penalties owed by the giant oil companies
2. The U.S. Government's Agency for International Development
3. Bailing out giant companies and bankruptcy rules
Mass media: For the many, by the Few
1. Stockholders of networks
2. The work of the journalists
3. The failure of the press
4. The entertainment media and political censorship
Conclusion
Bibliography

Abstract

Our history has been marked by intense and often violent class struggles, and the government has played a partisan role in these conflicts, mostly on the side of big business.

In 1845 in New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis and other urban areas, the richest 1% owned the biggest share of wealth, while a third of the population lived in destitution. Poverty and overcrowding brought cholera and typhoid epidemics and while the wealthy were able to flee to avoid these epidemics, the poor often died. Many of the impoverished were addicted to drugs and alcohol and young girls often labored from 6am to midnight for small wages. Children as young as 9 and 10 toiled 14-hour shifts and suffered from malnutrition and sickness and disease.

In the battle between labor and capital, civil authorities intervened almost invariably on the side of the "owning class," using state militia, police and federal troops to crush strikes and quell disturbances.