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The Corporate Underground
Ingram, Timothy H. | September 13, 1971 issue

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Combining a revolt against meaningless job traps with demands for corporate responsibility, employee power is taking many forms. Some workers, like the oil company employee who rides his bicycle to work, are engaged in quiet, personal protest against company policies. Others are becoming on-the-job conscientious objectors, refusing to do things they consider illegal or immoral. Some are leaking dirt to the press or to consumer groups. Others are openly speaking out, as when the Polaroid Corp. Workers' Revolutionary Movement demanded that the company cease doing business with South Africa. Some, like the female employees who successfully brought a discrimination suit against Libby-Owens-Ford Co., even take the boss to court.

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JOB satisfaction; SOCIAL responsibility of business; WORK values; CORPORATE culture; POLAROID Corp.; WOMEN employees; DISCRIMINATION in employment -- Law & legislation; LIBBY-Owens-Ford Co.
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