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.
Articles
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...
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...
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...
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...
Books
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...
Environmental Principles and Policies (2006)
Environmental Principles and Policies examines six key environmental and social principles that have been incorporated...
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...
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...
Contributions to Books
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...
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...
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...
Digging Your Own Grave, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
[Extract] The work ethic is one of the most neglected problems in society today, and...
Other
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...