This new and updated edition of Big Business, Poor Peoples
exposes how many of the natural resources of developing countries are
being ceded to transnational corporations answerable to no one but their
shareholders. The author argues that transnational corporations have
used their money, size and power to influence international negotiations
and that they have taken full advantage of the move towards
privatization to influence the policies of governments. Sovereignty, he
concludes, is passing into corporate hands and the poor are paying the
price. But people are fighting back. Citizens, workers, communities, are
exposing the corporations and looking for alternatives.