Organizing the 1

In Organizing the 1%: How Corporate Power Works, Carroll and Sapinski (2018) argue that corporations unify the interests of the one percent, are the root of economic inequality, and shape the agendas of governments and public institutions, such as universities. The book has seven chapters and is written in a way that will likely be accessible to most undergraduate readers. The first chapter focuses on the concept of corporate power and begins with the authors' main objectives: to "provide an overview of how corporate power operates in Canada today" and to "lay out a basic history" (p. 2). The authors define many of their key concepts such as capital and corporate power early in the book. They also discuss how civil society and the family are central to the reproduction of labour and intergenerational class stratification. In Chapter Two, Carroll and Sapinski trace Canada's early corporate history from its settler-capitalist roots and the "dispossession of land from its original occupants" (p. 23). The authors periodize Canadian corporate development into three epochs (European colonialism; early industrial capitalism; and the rise of modern corporations), highlight major corporations established around the turn the twentieth century, and draw attention to powerful industry lobby groups that have advanced interests of large corporations, such as the Canadian Manufacturers' Association and the Canadian Bankers Association

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