Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization: Developments in Communication and the Politics of Everyday Life (Suny Series in Speech Communication)

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Summary: Organizations Are Everywhere
Review: Deetz is a scholars scholr, but relatively easy to read. In this particular book, he discusses what we all know, but have not been able to name. We are all part of organizations. We work in them. We play in them (think soccer leagues and such). We sleep on their products. We are surrounded, but corporate colonization is much more than just that.

You have a friend that moved to keep or get a job? Corporate colonization. Your emplyer's HMO lets you only pick a couple specialists for your health care needs? Corporate colonization. You bring your child to work because it provides daycare? Corporate colonization. You want to take a nice vacation and get away from it all, but you have to be on call in Tahiti? Corporate colonization. Unable to copy a cd you purchased for your own private use? Corporate colonization.

An educational system that trains children for employment, rather than teaching them how to think? Corporate colonization. A government that attempts to insure economic growth over pressing social issues? Corporate colonization?

Deetz, is not as redundent as I am in explicating this. He makes great points regarding the way that our everyday lives and everyday choices/answers are defined in line (and more unconsciously) with the way modern corporations frame the questions to begin with.

Excellent read, and amazingly enlightening. And Deetz isn't a Marxist, just a hard thinker.