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Papers by Scott McNall

Contemporary Sociology, May 1, 1981

Social Forces, Sep 1, 1976

Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks, May 20, 2011

Choice Reviews Online, Oct 1, 2011

Cultures of Defiance and Resistance, 2018

Rapid Climate Change, 2011

Contemporary Sociology, 1985

Western Historical Quarterly, May 1, 1989

American Journal of Sociology, 2012

This three-volume set is a landmark comprehensive overview of the business of sustainability, pro... more This three-volume set is a landmark comprehensive overview of the business of sustainability, providing 56 separate chapters from leaders in business, non-profit organizations, and from within the academic and policy world. * Contributions from more than 70 authors recognized for their work in sustainability * Several chapters with systemic frameworks * Numerous case studies demonstrating successful approaches by industry innovators * 55 figures with models and steps for analyses * A bibliography with each chapter

Fast Capitalism, 2017

This contribution honors the memory and work of our friend and colleague Ben Agger who died in Ju... more This contribution honors the memory and work of our friend and colleague Ben Agger who died in July 2015. Ben would have had a lot to say about the 2016 campaign and its shocking result-the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency. The following is written in the spirit of his later writings, which were provocative and forceful but grounded always in critical theory. This is what I imagine he might have said and the counsel he might have offered us.

Fast capitalism, 2022

Based on interviews with Vietnamese factory workers we discuss the impact Covid lockdowns had on ... more Based on interviews with Vietnamese factory workers we discuss the impact Covid lockdowns had on their lives and illuminate how fragile their economic circumstances are in general. Both the government and major international corporations, such as Samsung and Nike, took extraordinary steps to keep workers on factory floors when covid infections started spreading in 2020. The government and businesses pressed laborers to work, sleep, and eat in their factories to stop the spread of the virus and to keep production lines moving. There was a determined push to get people vaccinated. It wasn't just the Vietnamese government that tried to get jabs in arms; ninety U.S. corporate executives urged the U.S. government to speed vaccine delivery to the country. Japanese, South Korean, and other Southeast Asian companies located in Vietnam also joined in these efforts. The purported reason was that supply chains had been disrupted by covid and exporters feared they would not have products on the shelves for the coming holiday season. We argue that focusing on supply chain disruptions obscures the fact that what is being transferred between developing countries and those in the core is not just television sets and tennis shoes but human labor power. It is a form of economic imperialism in which countries no longer conquer another nation to extract wealth but operate through international corporations unfettered by ties to any specific country. The Vietnamese government offers international corporations significant tax breaks and other benefits to set up shop in industrial zones. Their profit margins are high and come at the expense of workers, who must work overtime and enlist other family members in their labor force to survive. We conclude by identifying actions the Vietnamese government could take to alleviate the plight of factory workers.