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Tables of Contents for Toxic Capitalism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
3
Acknowledgements
xii
PART I: CAPITALISM, CORPORATIONS AND CRIME
3
124
1 Dreams of Capitalism: Neoliberalism and Contemporary Economies
3
31
Introduction: Capitalist Success Stories
3
1
Capitalism as Market Economy
3
4
The Organization of Contemporary Business Firms
7
3
Politics, Markets and Regulation
10
5
Externalities and the `Tragedy of the Commons'
15
2
Neoliberalism: Some Critiques
17
8
Politics
25
6
A Politics and Sociology of Economic Solutions
31
3
2 Constructing and Conceptualising Capitalisms: Beyond Neoliberalism
34
49
Introduction
34
1
States, Capitals and Hegemony
35
13
Globalisation, Capital and Nation-States
48
9
National and International Capitalisms
57
13
Conclusion: Costing Capitalist `Success'
70
13
3 Corporate Crime
83
44
Introduction
83
1
Europe
83
5
North America
88
4
American Sociology, Corruption and Crime
92
7
From Criminology to a Sociology of Law
99
5
White-collar Crime as a Concept
104
3
Corporate Crime
107
9
A Sociology and Politics of Corporate Organisation
116
11
PART II: CORPORATE CRIME IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
127
96
4 Understanding `Accidents' in the Chemical Industry
127
30
Introduction
127
1
The Causes of Accidents in the Chemical Industry: Some Empirical Evidence
128
5
The Causes of Accidents in the Chemical Industry: Towards a Theoretical Understanding
133
9
Discursive Formations and Discursive Practices
142
4
Science, Applied Science, and Chemical Engineering
146
2
Industrial Accidents and Political Economy
148
4
Conclusion: Safety, Industrial Accidents, and Corporate Crime
152
5
5 The Corporate Production of Safety and Environmental Crimes in the Chemical Industry: The Case of Major Hazards
157
37
Introduction: Crime and Major Hazards
157
1
Safety Management and the Corporate Production of Crime
158
17
Environmental Protection and the Corporate Production of Crime
175
14
Conclusion
189
5
6 Bhopal, Union Carbide and the International Chemical Industry
194
29
Introduction
194
1
The Emergence of a Friendlier, Law-Abiding Corporate Capitalism?
195
2
Explaining the Disaster at Bhopal
197
5
`Union Carbide Corporation TNC'
202
4
Rhetoric, Rationalisation, and Ideology
206
5
The Bhopal Settlement in Perspective
211
4
Conclusion
215
8
PART III: HAZARDS, REGULATION AND CLASS
223
94
7 Policing, Regulation and Ideology
223
24
Introduction
223
6
Two Versions of Regulation
229
15
Conclusion
244
3
8 Hegemony and Risk
247
33
Introduction
247
3
Hazardous Production and Modes of Governance
250
6
The Emergence of Risk Assessment
256
10
Risk, Safety and the Workplace
266
4
Reconstructing a Hegemonic Mode of Governance?
270
3
Conclusion
273
7
9 Conclusion: Regulating Toxic Capitalism
280
37
Introduction
280
2
Regulating Capital
282
4
Regulating Capital: The Politics of Criminalisation
286
6
Regulating Capital: The Politics of Deterrence and Rehabilitation
292
14
Regulation, Democratisation and Socialisation
306
6
Conclusion
312
5
Bibliography
317
46
Index
363