Gaveling Down the Rabble: How Free Trade Is Stealing Our Democracy

by Jane Anne Morris

Book Overview

In Gaveling Down the Rabble, author/activist Jane Anne Morris explores a century and a half of efforts by corporations and the courts to undermine local democracy in the United States by using a "free trade" model. It was that very nineteenth-century model that was later adopted globally by corporations to subvert local attempts at protecting the environment and citizen and worker health.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891843397
• ISBN13: 9781891843396
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary