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Monsanto immediately forged several partnerships with NGOs: projects on the protection of wetlands, on the treatment of toxic waste and on the financing of the Environmental Protection Agency. One sign of the importance with which the firm’s management treated the question was the way the president of the company in person oversaw the coalition-building strategy with the environmental groups. In fact, many ‘environmental’ NGOs have flourished since the beginning of the 1980s on the basis of this kind of deal with industry.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
The ILO recognizes burgeoning unemployment in the global North and South and the worrying trend towards casual and low-quality work. Its response has been to announce an agenda called ‘decent work’ for all, and to make ‘decent work’ a core ‘sustainable development’ goal. But the ILO has no concrete plan for how ‘decent work for all’ could be accomplished under the current mode of capitalist development, where the proliferation of casual work is not an accident, but a strategy to increase profit and enhance productivity — specifically the productivity of labour in relation to capital, which is how economists define it (Munck, 2013).
After Development: Surplus Population and the Politics of Entitlement
Tania Murray Li
The problem with this conception – epitomised in the definition of power as a relationship between an A and a B – is that it ignores how ‘the power dyad is itself situated in the context of other social relations through which it is actually constituted as a power relationship’.20 __If there is such a thing as a form of power the source of which is the capacity to control the material conditions of social reproduction, we can immediately see how a dyadic conception of power would make it invisible.__
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
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