CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY Archives • Hightower Lowdown

Taylorism

August 1, 2014

BEZOS’ COLD, MICROMANAGED, time-motion approach to the workplace is a direct descendant (and extreme extension) of a theory of “scientific management”... Read more...

The birth of Amazon

August 1, 2014

LEGEND HAS IT that Amazon is a classic story of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. In 1994, a bright,... Read more...

Do elites really think they can knock us down without provoking us to stand up and push back?

May 1, 2014

While taking in the splendor of the Grand Palace in Bangkok, a tourist came across a monk and asked if... Read more...

America isn’t broke. There’s plenty of money to build an economy worthy of our ideals and can-do spirit

December 1, 2013

Several pro football franchises have chosen chest-pounding team names meant to symbolize how big, powerful, ferocious, and scary they are–names... Read more...

Brand name riggers of the justice system

March 1, 2013

Practically every national brand name you’ve ever heard of now slips predatory arbitration provisions into their customer terms-of-service agreements and/or... Read more...

A third way

March 1, 2013

You don’t hear much about it, but there is another path to justice for some consumers who’ve been wronged by... Read more...

Corporate kangaroo courts have quietly usurped our constitutional right to trial by judge and jury

March 1, 2013

Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but getting your day in court is no picnic either. Aside from... Read more...

The boss man gets bossier

December 1, 2012

CITIZENS UNITED not only unleashed the Big Dogs of corporate money in this election, but it also unleashed mad-dog corporate bosses... Read more...

What 8 years of BushCheney have done to our economy

April 1, 2008

Harry Truman said, “No man should be allowed to be president who doesn’t understand hogs.” That’s never been more true... Read more...

Corporations that paid-to-play in the last election

April 1, 2007

FROM THE “LAND OF THE CLUELESS AND CONNIVING,” meet a couple of gentlemen who insist that America’s political funding system is... Read more...

Why Wal-Mart is still one down and dirty corporation

January 1, 2007

“You can’t create a team spirit when the situation is so one-sided, when management gets so much and workers get... Read more...

Our oldest mountains are being blown away

November 1, 2005

Many of you Lowdowners have told me that you often share the newsletter with your teenagers—and even younger children. Therefore,... Read more...

NAFTA gives the shafta to North America’s farmers

September 1, 2001

Last April at the presidential Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, our very own George W. Bush attempted to... Read more...

Wall street is out to conquer 31 countries

May 1, 2001

Open wide . . . here comes another great big glob of globaloney that the Powers That Be want to... Read more...

Our privacy rights are being sold, stolen and stripped

August 1, 2000

To get a job these days, chances are you’ll have to pee in a bottle. Your intimate medical history can... Read more...

How we won the war

June 1, 1999

A truck stop in Tulsa has a sign that proclaims: “Kids with gas eat free.” Well, kids, Im getting gas... Read more...

The new racketeers

April 1, 1999

Let’s pull the curtain and look at a police line-up of some of the most thuggish members of organized crime... Read more...

There’s a plan for one world government

March 1, 1999

Last year in Paris a bunch of guys in suits met secretly to draft a document they called ‘the constitution... Read more...