ABSTRACT
The pervasive influence of the corporation and its ever-increasing effects on human rights globally ‘is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage’.2 Though there are doubtless many ideologies, theories or polemics that may argue that capitalism is inherently flawed in such a way that it will always inhibit the human rights cause (hence the emergence of conflicting ideologies of communism, Marxism, Mao-ism, Leninism, etc.), in this instance (and for the means of this special issue and introduction) the assumption is being held that capitalism is an immutable fact of life that we will not attempt to try and dismantle.3
