Business-Managed Democracy

“Business-managed democracies are those in which the political and cultural arrangements are managed in the interests of business.”
Sharon Beder, 2009.

 

 

 

For more on this subject see
This Little Kiddy Went to Market:
The Corporate Capture of Childhood, Pluto Press, London, 2009.

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Business-Managed Education

Product Sales in Schools

In the 1990s soft drink and fast food companies began offering school districts, or individual schools, various deals for selling their particular brand within school boundaries to the exclusion of others.

Businesses use schools to sell their products to schools using the following schemes:

Soft Drink Sales Junk Food Sales School Fundraising Coupon Redemption

 

 

 

 

 

See also: Introduction | Classroom Materials | Direct Advertising |
Corporate Promotion | Market Research

© 2011 Sharon Beder
http://www.herinst.org/BusinessManagedDemocracy/education/commercialism/sales.html