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Psychology General

Childhood Under Siege

How Big Business Targets Children

by (author) Joel Bakan

Publisher
Penguin Group Canada
Initial publish date
Aug 2011
Category
General
  • Audio disc

    ISBN
    9781926910888
    Publish Date
    Jan 2017
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  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9781927401231
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    Jan 2017
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    9781926910864
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    Jan 2017
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    9780670069071
    Publish Date
    Aug 2011
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From the writer of the hit film and international bestselling book The Corporation comes a shocking venture behind the scenes of the widespread manipulation of children by profit-seeking corporations—and of society’s failure to protect them.

 

Childhood Under Seige reveals big business’s discovery of a new resource to be mined for profit—our children. A journey through a world of unabashed exploitation, clued-out parents, and governments that look the other way, it tells the chilling and at times darkly humorous story of business’s plans to turn kids into obsessive and narcissistic mini-consumers, media addicts, cheap and pliable workers, and chemical industry guinea pigs. Not to mention pharmaceutical pill poppers—psychotropic drug consumption by children has increased fivefold since 1980.

 

It’s a winner-takes-all battle for children’s hearts, minds and bodies as corporations pump billions into rendering parents and governments powerless to protect children from their calculated commercial assault and its disturbing toll on their health and well-being.

About the author

Joel Bakan is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia.

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