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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joel BakanPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.209kg ISBN: 9780099527053ISBN 10: 0099527057 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 02 August 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsOur new century of unlimited private profits has put an end to the era of publicly protected childhood. Separated by corporate design from their parents, kids have become capitalism's newest and most lucrative (and most vulnerable) consumers. In his Childhood Under Siege , Joel Bakan offers an angry but careful analysis of how the market flourishes today by selling our children everything from dangerous drugs, toxic plastics and unhealthy snack foods to violent and addictive video games and for-profit standardized tests. The villains here are not playground stalkers but supposedly child-friendly companies like Nickelodeon, Facebook, Pfizer and Edison Schools, along with a trillion dollar children's marketing machine and a government is the problem ideology that hasmade public regulation of the interests of children all but impossible. If they read Bakan carefully, once they get over their rage, both parents and policy makers may be ready to lift the corporate siege that is threatening not just our children but childhood itself. <p>--Benjamin R. Barber, author of Consumed: How Markets Infantilize Adults, Corrupt Children andSwallow Citizens Whole Powerrful...we are allowing our kids to be abused right under our noses, and we don't even know it -- Doug Johnstone Independent on Sunday A truly terrifying book...clearly written and forcefully argued Big Issue The assault on childhood in our corporate-dominated and profit-driven society, painfully dissected in this penetrating study, is a tragedy not only for the immediate victims but for hopes for a better future. It can be resisted, as Joel Bakan discusses. And it is urgent not to delay -- Noam Chomsky Author InformationJoel Bakan is professor of law at the University of British Columbia. A Rhodes Scholar and former law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, he holds law degrees from Oxford, Harvard and Dalhousie Universities. An internationally renowned legal authority, Bakan has written widely on law and its social and economic impact. He is the author of the bestselling and critically-acclaimed The Corporation- The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |