Sharon Beder is a visiting professor in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong. Dr Beder has written 10 books, around 150 articles, book chapters and conference papers, as well as educational monographs, consultancy reports and teaching resources (see http://www.herinst.org/sbeder). Her research has focussed on how power relationships are maintained and challenged, particularly by corporations and professions.
Corporate Public Relations
The Corporate Assault on Democracy, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2008)
Throughout the 20th Century business associations and coalitions coordinated mass propaganda campaigns that combined sophisticated...
Balancing bias in the media, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2007)
The news is presented to give the impression it is factual, uncoloured by journalistic bias,...
Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values (2006)
Throughout the 20th Century business associations and coalitions coordinated mass propaganda campaigns that combined public...
Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda (2006)
For the last forty years transnational corporations have been mobilizing behind the scenes to ensure...
Corporate propaganda and global capitalism - Selling free enterprise?, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
This chapter examines the way in which capitalism has been underpinned by a self-conscious propaganda...
Electricity Privatisation
Electricity: The global impact of power reforms, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Dozens of governments have embarked on the pathway to electricity deregulation and privatisation since the...
Power Play: The Japanese Situation, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
The Japanese electricity industry is currently being gradually deregulated in the hopes that high electricity...
Regulating the power shift: the state, capital and electricity privatisation in Australia (with D. Cahill), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
This article examines the process of electricity privatisation in Australia in order to identify the...
Neo-liberal think tanks and neo-liberal restructuring: Learning the lessons from Project Victoria and the privatisation of Victoria's electricity industry (with D. Cahill), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
In 1990, neo-liberal think tanks the Institute of Public Affairs and the Tasman Institute collaborated...
Power Play: The Fight for Control of the World's Electricity (2003)
Power Play argues persuasively that the track record of electricity privatisation and deregulation around the...
The Work Ethic
Digging Your Own Grave, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
[Extract] The work ethic is one of the most neglected problems in society today, and...
Selling the Work Ethic, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2001)
[Extract] In modern industrial societies work and production have become ends in themselves. Employment has...
The Promotion of a Secular Work Ethic, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2001)
[Extract] The compulsion to work has clearly become pathological in modern industrial societies. Millions of...
Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR (2000)
At the onset of the twenty first century work and production have become ends in...
Children and Education
This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The Corporate Capture of Childhood (2009)
This Little Kiddy Went to Market investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children...
The Role of “Economic Education” in Achieving Capitalist Hegemony, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Free enterprise has become the prevailing idea of our times, an idea without serious rival...
Corporate Power and Agenda Setting
Business-managed democracy : the trade agenda, Critical social policy (2010)
The architecture of global governance that has emerged in the past two decades has been...
Globalisation: before and after the crisis, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2010)
So-called »free« markets are becoming the new organising principle for the global order. The idea...
Neoliberalism and the global financial crisis, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
The new right advocated policies that aided the accumulation of profits and wealth in fewer...
The corporate agenda for environmental property rights, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2009)
Market and property-rights based approaches to environmental problems have been heavily promoted by conservative think...
Drug companies and Schizophrenia: Unbridled Capitalism meets Madness (with L. R. Mosher and R. Gosden), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2004)
While the major thrust of this volume is an examination of the psychosocial origins and...
Environmental Politics
Market mechanisms, ecological sustainability and social equity, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2008)
In most cases the use of market mechanisms to protect the environment aim to maximise...
The Changing Face of Conservation: Commodification, Privatisation and the Free Market, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Environmentalists in the late 1960s and 1970s argued that the exponential growth of populations and...
The Right Way to Go? Earth Sanctuaries and Market-based Conservation (with J. Sydee), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Australia's Earth Sanctuaries Limited (ESL) is an internationally acclaimed organisation that uses private property as...
Role of the precautionary principle in water recycling (with A. I. Schäfer), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
In an engineering context the precautionary principle is often perceived as an excuse to do...
Environmental Principles and Policies (2006)
Environmental Principles and Policies examines six key environmental and social principles that have been incorporated...
Environmental Economics
Environmental Principles and Policies (2006)
Environmental Principles and Policies examines six key environmental and social principles that have been incorporated...
Trading the Earth: The politics behind tradeable pollution rights, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2001)
[Extract] Tradeable pollution rights and emissions trading are being increasingly used as an environmental policy...
Costing the Earth: Equity, Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2000)
The ethical principle of equity, particularly intergenerational equity, is central to the concept of sustainable...
CCA Treated Timber
Treated Timber, Toxic Time-bomb: The Need for a Precautionary Approach to the Use of Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) as a Timber Preservative (with N. Lansbury), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
Timber preserved with Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) is ubiquitous in Australia. Wood, such as radiata...
Other
Beyond technicalities: Expanding engineering thinking, Faculty of Arts - Papers (1999)
Engineering appears to be at a turning point. It is evolving from an occupation that...