Kuttner, Robert
Summary: The influential social critic traces the role of global capitalism in current income stagnation, reduced productivity, and minimized social support, arguing how unchecked capitalism in the world is undermining the practices of a healthy democracy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.9 KUTBing, Stanley.
Summary: The world's first corporate case study: A family business prospers through a productive series of brutal consolidations and rational growth. Then the rise of an executive class that pits one egotistical senior manager against another in senseless internal conflicts eventually leads to a long line of demented CEOs, excessive expansion, and foolish diversification--and a high cost in shattered...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937.002 BINSummary: Set in the future, a young man looks for a better life outside his small rural village in Mexico-- but finds himself facing a technological dystopia when he attempts to cross the border.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SLESummary: Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Michael 2008Conklin, Tara.
Summary: Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, searches for the perfect plaintiff to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow Paperbacks 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONSummary: This program is devoted to the rise of Mussolini and Italian fascism; its aim is to show the roots of fascism in Italy and the execution of its seemingly laudable goals of "order" and "discipline. It shows the genuine need for reform and stability, which led to the imposition of totalitarian enforcement of order and discipline; the dawn of the Corporate State, where there are no strikes and all...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Focusing on the subprime mortgage crisis, this edition of the Journal travels to Cleveland, Ohio-the heart of the nation's mortgage meltdown. Correspondent Rick Karr examines the state of Slavic Village, where more than 1,000 homes stand vacant and decaying in a neighborhood that once thrived with families living the American dream of home ownership. Then, Bill Moyers gets perspective on the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009