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Links from the book:

www.open.gov.uk/
The Open Government website, which contains links to all regulatory bodies in England and Wales.

www.corporatewatch.org/
A campaigning site, bringing together the work of activists and researchers seeking both to expose illegal and unethical corporate activity and to explore business-government relations in general.

www.essential.org/monitor/monitor.html
Documents unethical and illegal corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing particularly on public, worker, and environmental health and safety issues.

www.corporatepredators.org
Here you will find the US-based ‘Focus on the Corporation’, a weekly column on illegal and unethical corporate activity.

paulsjusticepage.com/elite-deviance.htm
An excellent source of corporate crime material, and many links, maintained by Paul Leighton, co-author of Jeffrey Reiman’s The Rich Get Richer the Poor Get Prison.

Further links of interest:

United Kingdom

TUC liability/ corporate responsibility webpage:
www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/index.cfm?mins=33
Listing of TUC documents on or containing information on safety, corporate liability and corporate responsibility.

Centre for Corporate Accountability :
www.corporateaccountability.org/
A primarily UK based organisation that aims "to increase the accountability of companies and their senior officers who cause  death, injury and disease." CCA has created web-based news pages with links to articles in UK national and local newspapers on subjects including work-related deaths, inquests and manslaughter prosecutions.

TGWU corporate crime webpage :
www.tgwu.org.uk/Templates/Campaign.asp?Action=Display&NodeID=89511&int1stParentNodeID=42437&int2ndParentNodeID=42467

Corporate Watch :
www.corporatewatch.org.uk/
A radical research and publishing group that supports "grassroots and direct activism against large corporations, particularly multinationals. Our approach is to investigate, corporate structures and the system that supports them more broadly, rather than solely criticising the individual companies for bad behaviour."

Simon Jones Memorial Campaign :
www.simonjones.org.uk/
Excellent, vocal and direct action oriented campaign started by the friends and family of Simon Jones, killed on his first day of work as a casual dock worker. The site contains excellent advice for anyone suffering a workplace bereavement.

Health and Safety Executive :
www.hse-databases.co.uk/prosecutions/
"Naming and shaming" site. The HSE public register of convictions site "gives details of all prosecution cases taken by HSE, since 1 April 1999, which resulted in a conviction." It is almost impossible to find the information you want so be persistent.

International

Hazards news:
www.hazards.org/news/index.htm
Listing of the latest news from Hazards magazine on the corporate safety criminals.

Victorian Trades Hall Council :
www.vthc.org.au
Corporate killing site The VTHC site contains details of a highly effective campaign waged by Australian unions in their quest for a corporate killing law. Industrial Deaths Support and Advocacy

IDSA Inc :
www.idsa.com.au/
"Is a non-profit-making voluntary association whose charter is to provide emotional support and practical assistance to the families of those who have lost their lives as a result of occupational accidents or disease." IDSA has good links with unions and have been prominent in Australian campaigns against corporate killing.

Bosswatch :
bosswatch.labor.net.au/
BossWatch is the first concerted attempt by Australian unions to map the corporate landscape and track the linkages between major employers. It is a resource open to all unions sponsored by the Labor Council of NSW.

China Labour Bulletin:
http://www.china-labour.org.hk/en/node/100357
Set up in 1994, seeks to promote independent trade unionism and provide information on the activities of the official All-China Federation of Trade Unions, as well as attempts by workers to organise outside it.

Corpwatch :
www.corpwatchindia.org/
Recently launched website keeping an eye on TNCs in India.

Corporate Europe Observatory :
www.corporateeurope.org
"A European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups."

United States

AFL-CIO :
www.aflcio.org/corporateamerica/research/accountability.cfm
Corporate accountability organisations listing.

The Multinational Monitor :
multinationalmonitor.org/
Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.

The Public i :
http://publici.ucimc.org
Online investigative news report from the Center for Public Integrity.

Multinationals Resource Center :
resourcesfirst.org/
Provides free information to Southern countries exploited by the worst abuses of multinational corporations rampant pollution, oppressive labor practices, exploitative trading arrangements.

Focus on the Corporation :
www.essential.org/monitor/focus/focus.index.html
Features ·reports and comments critically on corporate actions and plans, from particular abuses to broad trends. Also see the authors web-based guide to corporate misbehaviour, Corporate Predators.

Environmental Research Foundation :
www.rachel.org/home_eng.htm
Provides "news and resources for environmental justice."

Public Information Network :
www.endgame.org/
The mission of the Public Information Network is to provide research services and training to citizens who are working for corporate and governmental accountability, and who are committed to socially just and ecologically sustainable societies.

Corporate Accountability Project :
www.corporations.org/
CAP has corporate dirt archives and lots of other resources useful to those concerned about the activities of multinational companies.

Labor Notes :
www.labornotes.org/
The voice of union activists who want to "put the movement back in the labor movement" through rank and file democracy.

Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD):
www.poclad.org/
is an organization of "activists who have spent the last several years researching corporate, labour and legal histories, rethinking our past organizing strategies and talking with people about democracy movements."

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