ABSTRACT

NGOs working on a wide variety of issues from turtle conseiVation to child labour are uniting in opposition to the unfettered and unaccountable hypercapitalism that globalisation is producing (Lynch 1998). In this book a variety of instances of protest against corporations have been mentioned, from demonstrations at home-improvement stores

access to labour. The social democracies that emerged from this period embodied the notion that capitalism worked best if there was a counterbalancing force to capitalists through strong government and trade unions: capitalists needed the workers while workers, it was argued, needed the capitalists.