What kind of person puts a successful career at risk in order to warn the public of a dangerous or illegal situation? What are the consequences of such an action, and how do these people and their families deal with the pressure? What laws protect them, and where can they turn for support? The often surprising answers are in this book, the first large-scale, long-term study of sixty-four courageous ethical resisters and their spouses.
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Sixty-four employees who risked their careers, reputations and even their lives to expose incompetence and malfeasance in industry and government are celebrated in this engrossing chronicle by a Smith College professor of sociology and anthropology and his wife, professor of history at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. The authors cite examples of what these men and women achieved, including disclosure by NASA and Thiokol Company engineers of flaws in the Challenger shuttle design, Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers and the revelations of police corruption by Frank Serpico, a New York city police officer. Less known is the destructive impact of company retaliation on their lives, and the role played by families and other individuals and public interest groups who supported the whistleblowers morally, or defended them in the courts and in the press. By defying powerful businesses and bureaucracies guilty of crimes against the public, these ethical resistersprofessionals, blue- and white-collar workershave inspired an ongoing social movement dedicated to overseeing corporate and government accountability.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Ethical Resisters" are what the Glazers call people who, often at great risk, have made public the illegal or dangerous actions of their employers. Relying on interviews and well-documented research, they highlight little-known cases (a slaughterhouse employee who blew the whistle on systematic unsanitary conditions in USDA-supervised processing plants), as well widely publicized ones (including Frank Serpico and Karen Silkwood). They show how these individuals, sustained by religious faith or professional commitment, fought often lonely battles against the system. Though parallels with 20th-century muckrakers are generally ignored, the Glazers effectively sketch the 1960s roots of whistleblowing, and they convincingly argue for the necessity of whistleblowers in a complex technological and bureaucratic world.
- Jack Forman, Mesa Coll. Lib., San Diego
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Jack Forman, Mesa Coll. Lib., San Diego
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Great introductory overview of an important subject,
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Extraordinary! Great introductory overview of a hard-to-manage subject matter. Gives a good sense of how invaluable whistleblowers are to the fundamental underpinings of democracy itself. The personal profiles will touch your heart. Regular people too often find their lives and careers turned upside down simply because they are honest enough to "commit the truth" after witnessing corruption in high levels of government or corporations. They are our last line of defense when those in power decide the rules need not apply to them. Authors did a good job selecting representative sample from among countless courageous whistleblowers to whom we all owe a debt of gratitude. From threats to our food supply to nuclear weapons scandals to health care fraud to corrupt politicians, etc., etc., whsitleblowers are the source of our learning about virtually every major scandal this country has seen. Shows how inadequate legal protections are for ehical dissenters. Must reading for anyone concerned about integrity and accountability in government and the corporate world.
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Great sociology with human insight (also saved my job),
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I was working in a large bureacratic institution that was falsifying safety statistics. I was planning to expose the whole charade, and needed to know how in the most effective way possible.After reading this and The Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What's Right and Protecting Yourself, I understood the most essential thing was anonymity, so that the supervisor couldn't fire you for performance. Even EEO complaints don't seem to deter these sorts of things. Lawsuits are often costly as well. I anonymously released a report to the right people who had political connections. The issue got to C-SPAN. I retained my job until I found another one, no one the wiser for my having raised the issue. The book itself is a tour de force of the kind of qualitative study that should be the norm. It looks for commonalities amongst "ethical resisters" and finds several - a strong religious or moral undercurrent and belief that went beyond normative and a family support system. It often explores these qualities using the research subjects own words, which makes the study all the more meaningful. It also exposed the truth behind how organizations function to lessen the severity of adverse information about the organization. It looks critically at how organizations function in the wake of an ethical breakdown and what goes into making an ethical resister. The book is an enjoyable read free of the mindless academic jargon that often plagues these kinds of books. Highly recommended.
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Amazing insight. You are not alone. many stories shared of pain and suffering by our own Government.Thank you.
Lisa Black vs Dept of Veterans Affairs(United States District Court,Middle District of Tennessee,at NASHVILLE) 2005....and stalling. (Pro-se) Lisa P. Black [...]
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