Life inc : how the world became a corporation and how to take it back /
By: Rushkoff, Douglas
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Vintage Books, 2010.Description: xxiii, 274 ; 20 cm. : ill.ISBN: 9780099516699Other title: Life incorporated.Subject(s): Conduct of life | Communities | Materialism | MarketingDDC classification: 306.0973 RU LI Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 306.0973 RU LI (Browse shelf) | Available | T0040927 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-259) and index.
Your money or your life : a lesson on the front stoop -- Once removed : the corporate life-form -- Charters and the disconnect from commerce -- Mistaking the map for the territory -- Colonialism and the disconnect from place -- The ownership society -- Real estate and the disconnect from home -- Individually wrapped -- Public relations and the disconnect from one another -- You, youre the one -- Consumer empowerment and the disconnect from choice -- To whom credit is due -- Self-interest and the disconnect from currency -- From ecology to economy -- Big business and the disconnect from value -- No returns -- How resistance disconnects us even further -- Here and now -- The opportunity to reconnect.