Corporate law and corporate power insulate private correctional owners, operators, and contractors from essential monitoring, oversight, and accountability. The macro scripts that have legitimated the alliance between “private” and “public” actors within the criminal law and carceral sector demonstrate
Over the past several years, increasing public scrutiny has led to the closure of private prisons across the country. Faced with out-group status, corrections corporations have responded by diversifying their services in government-run prisons, which has allowed them to
Gun control proposals in the United States overwhelmingly focus on regulating individuals: background checks, criminal penalties, storage regulations, and the like. But the problem of gun violence is not a problem of “bad” people: it is a systemic public health
Although the relationship between eroding wages in the working class, and unprecedented increases of wealth in the top 1% of income-earners is alarmingly clear, little has been done to remedy the issue; minimum wage remains unchanged since 2009 and is
Tucked into the fine print of millions of consumer and employment contracts, forced arbitration clauses are nearly ubiquitous in modern America. Most people who agree to them, however, have no idea that in doing so they’ve given away their right
Child labor is a widespread problem in global cocoa supply chains. Nestlé, one of the largest cocoa companies, offers an example of how major cocoa companies describe the problem. Nestlé tells the public that child labor is a local problem
Fast fashion is the rapid turn-over of low-cost clothing, which is the focus of business models of companies such as H&M, Zara, and Gap. Although the fast fashion industry generates billions of dollars every year, this industry has continued to
Chickens raised for food are an important part of most Americans’ daily lives—in the United States alone, over 9 billion chickens are slaughtered every year. Yet the chicken industry causes immense suffering to both the animals and humans involved.
This paper addresses the gaps that allow corporations to deny responsibility for harms caused by their weapons. In the final section, I propose some solutions to hold corporations accountable, or at least blunt some of their influence.
This paper argues that the material and metaphysical violence levied against Black and Indigenous peoples in the United States form the foundation of modern corporations and “the corporation” as such. By analyzing corporations’ basic building blocks—capital, property, and land—and their