Capitalist globalization, corporate social responsibility and social policy

2010/11/01 by Leslie Sklair, David Miller
Social Sciences · #Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism #Labor Movements and Unions #Political Economy and Marxism

paper · doi:10.1177/0261018310376804

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Abstract

This article outlines how the twin crises of capitalist globalization — of class polarization and ecological unsustainability — combine to produce the need for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to attempt to bridge the gap between the rhetoric and reality of corporate conduct. The first section outlines how CSR relates to capitalist globalization and how it is integrated into the activities of the Transnational Capitalist Class (TCC). The role of CSR in relation to social policy is examined next leading on to an account of the uses to which CSR is put in policy discourse, particularly its strategic use in lobbying and the advance of corporate power.

Citations

• Corporate Social Responsibility

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