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REAL WORLD MICRO, 7TH EDITION: TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction    5

CHAPTER 1: MARKETS EVERYWHERE: PRIVATIZATION AND DEREGULATION
1.  Privatization: Downsizing Government for Principle and Profit
Edward S. Herman6
2.  Competition Comes to Electricity: Industry Gains, People
andthe Environment LoseRoger Colton11
3.  The Sick Health Care System: Are Corporate HMOs the
Answer?Edie Rasell15
4.  Government of, by and for the Wealthy       Marc Breslow &
Abby Scher19

CHAPTER 2: THE PROBLEM WITH MARKETS
5.  Spiraling Down: The Fall of Real Wages      22
6.  The Child Care Industry: Worthy Work, Worthless Wages
Rosemarie Vardell and Marcy Whitebook23
7.  Rents Out of Reach  Skip Barry      27
8.  Debate: Butting Heads Over the Tobacco Tax  Liberty Aldrich &
John Stamm28
9.  Fringe Banks Exploit the Poor       Michael Hudson  32

CHAPTER 3: CONSUMERS
10.  Enough Is Enough: Why More is not Necessarily Better Than
Less Alan Durning37
11.  The Power of Marketing     David Kiron     40
12.  Good Health for Sale       Barbara Ehrenreich      43
13.  Marketing Green: Are You Getting What You Ask For?
David Levy44
14.     Can We Build a New American Dream?      Interview with
Ellen Furnari47

CHAPTER 4: FIRMS AND COMPETITION
15.  To Make A Tender Chicken: Technological Change and
Costcutting Take Their Toll on Poultry Workers Barbara Goldfotas49
16.  Co-ops, ESOPs and Worker Participation     Rebecca Bauen   52
17.  The Quality Movement: Is It Defective?     David Levine    56
18.  Worker Participation: Is It Worth the Price?       Robert
Drago58

CHAPTER 5: MARKET STRUCTURE
19.  Is Small Beautiful? Is Bigger Better? Small and Big Business
Both Have Their DrawbacksChris Tilly59
20.  The Media Mega Mergers     Edward S. Herman        63
21.  Supermarket Buyout Mania   Marc Breslow    68
22.  Trucker's Travail  Mike Belzer     71

CHAPTER 6: LABOR MARKETS
23.  Jack and Me: I Was Downsized -- He Got Rich        Laurie
Dougherty75
24.  It's Not Working: Low Wage Jobs May Not Be the Answer for the
PoorChris Tilly and Randy Abelda79
25.  Fear of Foreigners: Does Immigrant Labor Drive Down Wages?
Gregory DeFreitas81
26.  It's Better in the Union -- If You Can Find One Joy Beggs  86
27.     Computer Workers Feel the Byte: Temp Jobs in Silicon
ValleyChris Benner87
28.  Welfare and Labor Markets  Elaine McCrate  91
29.  Minimum Wage, Maximum Benefit?     Marc Breslow    93

CHAPTER 7: DISCRIMINATION, POVERTY & WELFARE
30.  A Business Showcases Its Segregated Staff  Barbara Bergmann94
31.  Black Men Take the Heat    Marc Breslow    96
32.  Welfare: Myths & Facts     Teresa Amott    98
33.  Farewell to Welfare but Not to Poverty     Randy Abelda    99
34.  Lending Insights: Hard Proof That Banks Discriminate
Jim Campen103

CHAPTER 8: THE ENVIRONMENT
35.  Does Preserving the Earth Threaten Jobs?   Eban Goodstein
106
36.  Prawn Fever: Resource Depletion Threatens Thailand's Shrimp
FarmersAlfredo Quarto and Betsy Reed109
37.  Trashing Recycling: The New Face of Anti-Environmentalism
Frank Ackerman113
38.  Environmental Justice: The Birth of a Movement     Dorceta
Taylor 117

CHAPTER 9: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
39.  Markets Unbound: The Heavy Price of Globalization  Arthur
MacEwan119
40.  Macho Economics: What Free Trade Means for Canadian Women
Marjorie Griffin Cohen122
41.  Crimes of Fashion: Those Who Suffer to Bring You Gap T-Shirts
Marc Breslow125
42.  NAFTA: Hero or Villain?    Marc Breslow    127

Contributors    128