Chloe E Taft
Biographic Data
| ID | 305730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chloe E Taft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chloe E |
| FAMILY NAME | Taft |
| SIGNATURE | TAFT C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lake Forest College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performing Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility
Shifting shorelines
This article takes an urban political ecological approach to a historical case study to show how corporations shape both material and economic landscapes to make them appear "natural" and stable when they are anything but. In the early twentieth century, Illinois Steel dumped waste into Lake Michigan at its South Chicago plant to surreptitiously expand its landholdings. The company leveraged a legal claim to the land-a claim that it materially pr…
From Steel to Slots
Bethlehem PA was synonymous with steel. But after the factories closed, the city bet its future on casino gambling. Chloe Taft describes a city struggling to make sense of the ways global capitalism transforms jobs, landscapes, and identities. While residents often have few cards to play, the shape economic progress takes is not inevitable
Shifting shorelines
This article takes an urban political ecological approach to a historical case study to show how corporations shape both material and economic landscapes to make them appear "natural" and stable when they are anything but. In the early twentieth century, Illinois Steel dumped waste into Lake Michigan at its South Chicago plant to surreptitiously expand its landholdings. The company leveraged a legal claim to the land-a claim that it materially pr…
From Steel to Slots
Bethlehem PA was synonymous with steel. But after the factories closed, the city bet its future on casino gambling. Chloe Taft describes a city struggling to make sense of the ways global capitalism transforms jobs, landscapes, and identities. While residents often have few cards to play, the shape economic progress takes is not inevitable
Shifting shorelines
This article takes an urban political ecological approach to a historical case study to show how corporations shape both material and economic landscapes to make them appear "natural" and stable when they are anything but. In the early twentieth century, Illinois Steel dumped waste into Lake Michigan at its South Chicago plant to surreptitiously expand its landholdings. The company leveraged a legal claim to the land-a claim that it materially pr…
Performing Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility
American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Capitalism (1 works) · Casinos (1 works) · Disinvestment (1 works) · Economic conditions (1 works) · Economic history (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Economy (1 works)