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The Activist's Library: Books on Corporations and Related Topics

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General Books on Corporations
When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
Corporation Nation and People Before Profit by Charles Derber
The Tyranny of the Bottom Line: Why Corporations Make Good People Do Bad Things by Ralph Estes
The Corporation Inside & Out by the Aurora Institute (www.aurora.ca)
Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History and Strategy by Dean Ritz, ed.
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann
Taming the Giant Corporation by Ralph Nader, Mark Green and Joel Seligman
Cutting Corporate Welfare by Ralph Nader
Corporate Irresponsibility by Lawrence Mitchell
Challenging Corporate Rule by Robert Benson
Selling Out: How Big Corporate Money Buys Elections, Rams Through Legislation, And Betrays Our Democracy by Mark Green

Corporate Crime
Corporate Crime and Violence by Russell Mokhiber
Corporate Predators by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Corporate Crime by Marshall B. Clinard and Peter C. Yeager
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice by Jeffrey Reiman
Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed And Political Corruption are Undermining America by Arianna Huffington
Pipe Dreams (Enron) by Robert Bryce

Corporate Governance
The End of Shareholder Value by Allan A. Kennedy
The Divine Right of Capital by Marjorie Kelly
Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know by Arthur Levitt
The New Global Investors by Robert Monks

Books on Corporate Globalization
Alternatives to Economic Globalization (see www.ifg.org)
Whose Trade Organization? by Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza,
Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization by Hilary French (Worldwatch)
Unequal Partners by William Tabb
The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy by Noreena Hertz

Other Corporate Related Books
Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism by Sharon Beder
Toxic Sludge is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
Trust Us, We're Experts by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System by Dan Schiller
Rich Media/Poor Democracy by Robert McChesney
Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth by David Bollier
World Hunger: 12 Myths by Peter Rossett et al.
Wealth and Democracy by Kevin Phillips
One Market Under God by Tom Frank
Christianity, Inc. by Michael Budde et al.
Campus, Inc. by Geoffry White (ed.)

Magazines
Multinational Monitor (www.essential.org/monitor), Covert Action, Z Mag, the Nation, In These Times, Corporate Reform Weekly, Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly, www.Commondreams.org
For more reading suggestions, see Citizen Works' progressive reading list.

Last Updated March 25, 2003

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