I just found this essay (pasted in below) by Robert Weissman in the endnotes of William Greider’s book
الشركات الكبرى لا تحظى بشعبية أكبر مما تعتقد
Tuesday, January 15. 2008
الشركات الكبرى لا تحظى بشعبية أكبر مما تعتقد
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A November 2007 Harris poll found that less than 15 percent of the population believes each of the following industries to be "generally honest and trustworthy:" tobacco companies (3 percent); oil companies (3 percent); managed care companies such as HMOs (5 percent); health insurance companies (7 percent); telephone companies (10 percent); life insurance companies (10 percent); online retailers (10 percent); pharmaceutical and drug companies (11 percent); car manufacturers (11 percent); airlines (11 percent); packaged food companies (12 percent); electric and gas utilities (15 percent). Only 32 percent of adults said they trusted the best-rated industry about which Harris surveyed, supermarkets.
These are remarkable numbers. It is very hard to get this degree of agreement about anything. By way of comparison, 79 percent of adults believe the earth revolves around the sun; 18 percent say it is the other way around.
نتائج هاريس ليست انحرافا. ولم تختلف النتائج بشكل كبير على مدى السنوات الخمس الماضية - على الرغم من أن مستويات الثقة الإجمالية انخفضت بالفعل من العتبة المنخفضة للغاية بالفعل في عام 2003.
وتتوافق نتائج هاريس أيضًا مع مجموعة من بيانات الاستطلاع التي تظهر قلقًا عميقًا بشأن تركز قوة الشركات.
An amazing 84 percent told Harris in a poll earlier in 2007 that big companies have too much power in
These results have proven durable. At least 80 percent of the public has ranked big companies as having too much power in
Full essay at http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/editorsblog/index.php?/archives/68-Big-Business-Is-Even-More-Unpopular-Than-You-Think.html
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