1. Breeding Disloyalty Anti-Corporate Discontent

2. Job Creation vs. Wealth Creation Transnational corporations account for 33% of world’s productive assets, but only 5% of world’s direct employment Between 1990 & 1997, total assets of largest 100 corporations increased by 288% In same period, number of people employed by them increased by < 9%

3. Separating Jobs & Wealth Job creation is no longer part of the rhetoric or reality of corporate strategies “A stable, reliable relationship between workers and their corporate employers has little or nothing to do with either the unemployment rate or the relative health of the economy” (p. 261) Some statistics

4. Wealth & Discontent De-linking jobs & economic growth breeds discontent, disloyalty to corporations Power of transnational corporations centralizes opposition to corporate power Wealth production linked to environmental degradation, threats to food supply (water quality, mad cow disease, foot & mouth disease), crimes against indigenous peoples

5. Power & Resistance: One System? “Transnationals are affecting democracy, work, communities, culture and the biosphere. Inadvertently, they have helped us see the whole problem as one system, to connect every other issue, to not look at one problem in isolation.” (quote by John Jordan, British anarchist environmentalist; Klein, p. 267)

6. Employment & Discontent Discontent is not evenly distributed over employment sectors Very little corporate loyalty in McJobs sector (casual, temporary, joke jobs) Less than half of workforce is full-time, permanent Some statistics

7. Age & Discontent Discontent is not evenly distributed over generations Those born post-1965 have received the message of “no expectations” i.e. no institutions — government or corporate — are seen to help

8. Resistance & Discontent The state recognizes discontentrecognizes Riot police in Windsor, Ontario during the meeting of the Organization of American States, 4 June 2000

9. The Question... When job creation is disconnected from wealth creation, there is discontent … When the majority of the workforce is not in full-time, permanent employment, there is discontent... The state recognizes discontent Can this discontent turn into meaningful political opposition?