Print version: Glasbeek, Harry Class Privilege Toronto : Between the Lines,c2017 ISBN 9781771133074
Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction Confronting Flesh-and-Blood Targets -- PART I The Corporation: Law’s Gift to Capitalists -- Chapter 1 A Corporation Is Born -- Chapter 2 Cooking the Books -- Chapter 3 Gaming the System -- PART II The Shareholder: The Privileging of a Class -- Chapter 4 The Shareholder as Gambler -- Chapter 5 The Shareholder as Toxin -- Chapter 6 The Shareholder as Victim -- PART III The Corporate actor: Piercing the Veil -- Chapter 7 The Ideal of Individual Responsibility -- Chapter 8 The Ideal Abandoned -- Chapter 9 Too Hard to Find? The Anecdotal Riposte -- Chapter 10 Too Hard to Find? The Empirical Riposte -- Chapter 11 The Role of Limited Liability -- Chapter 12 Social Welfare -- Chapter 13 A Step off the Road to Serfdom -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.
Once the corporate mask is ripped off, those who hide behind it become visible. Harry Glasbeek highlights the perverting economic, political, and ethical roles played by the prime instrument of private wealth accumulation: the legal corporation..