Shadow Trades 1st Edition The Dark Side of Global Business

List of TablesList of FiguresAbout the Author1 Charting the BorderlessQuest to QueryScanning the Horizon■ Timeless Trades■ Attention Deficits■ Conscience CognizantGauging Quantum■ Figures Reckoned■ Media Mentions■ Wronging RightsViewing Askance■ Economic-Commercial Cynicism■ Political-Legal NegligenceExtending Boundaries■ Comprehending to Apprehend■ Forerunners and Lineage■ Interrogating LegitimacyStructure and Purpose■ Agenda for Audiences■ Scope and Coverage■ Evidence and NomenclatureDedication and Commendation2 Darkness EnlightenedOverview in IntroductionTrade Backdrop■ Development Paradigms■ Core versus Periphery■ Guises of ColonialismVantage Advantage■ Global Standpoint■ Critical EndeavourEncompassing Ethics■ Focus on Foibles■ Delinquency Delineated■ Depth SoundingsRevisiting Responsibility■ Socio-economic Justice■ Corporate Citizenship■ Legislative MandateDiscerning Shadows■ Comparative Ethics■ Managerial ScruplesCommentary in ConclusionDim Domain: Management Dark Sides vis-à-vis Shadow Trades3 Irregular Migration & Labour ExploitationOverview in IntroductionTrading People■ Historical Precedence■ Contemporary ManifestationsDemarcating the Abuse■ Human Trafficking■ People Smuggling■ Debt Bondage■ Coerced LabourMigration Explicated■ Push Factors■ Pull FactorsTackling the Interplay■ Macro-level Policies■ Meso-level MediationsLiberating Humanity■ Myopia to Exodus■ Invisibility of ToilCommentary in ConclusionDim Domain: Global Serfdom Vignettes4 Transplant Tourism & Organs AcquisitionOverview in IntroductionPlight versus Rights■ Growth of the Therapy■ Spreading the PainCurative Contagion■ Transplant on Demand■ Pricing Spare-parts■ Desperate Patients■ Vulnerable DonorsDiagnosing the Malaise■ Incidence and Growth■ Worldwide Marketplace■ Enabling SectorsPrognosis for Intervention■ Ethical Quandaries■ Engendering Supply■ Dampening DemandTreating the Malpractice■ People before Profit■ Granting OversightCommentary in ConclusionDim Domain: Kidney Supply Remedies5 Resource Pilferage & Environment DegradationOverview in IntroductionResourcing Conflicts■ Pillage and Plunder■ Catalysts with ConsequencesReaching Rock Bottom■ Corporations Complicit■ Indemnifying End-users■ Development or ImpoverishmentContested Ownership■ Mineral Resources■ Biodiversity Assets■ Cultural HeritageDelinking Supply Chains■ Auditing the Processing■ Undermining by Disarming■ Tracking via TechnologyConserving Commonwealth■ Directives with Enforcement■ Minding the Plunder■ Treasuring LegacyCommentary in ConclusionDim Domain: Oiling Terrorism Operations6 Waste Transhipment & Hazardous RecyclingOverview in IntroductionDiscarding Responsibility■ Historical Propensities■ Current ImpetusBy-products Unwanted■ Industrial Waste■ Construction Waste■ Municipal Waste■ Plastic Waste■ Electronic Waste■ Radioactive WasteParties to Disposal■ Ineffectual Legislation■ Questionable Logistics■ Eco Smugglers■ Site ApartheidIntercepting Passage■ International Monitoring■ Citizen Agitation■ Trade Re-orientationChanging Course■ Progress sans Pollution■ Manufacture Re-engineeredCommentary in ConclusionDim Domain: Ship Graveyard or Materials Resurrection?7 Arms Conveyance & Military ContractingOverview in IntroductionProjecting Power■ Weapon Fabricators■ Political OverlordsPursuing Supply Routes■ Weighty versus Nimble■ Valuing the Transactions■ Outsourced SoldieringUnderwriting the Destructive■ Government Subsidy■ Counting All CostsStrategic Re-direction■ Treaty Entreaties■ Incentives for Disarmament■ Divestment or DiversificationPeace Dividends■ Reimagining War■ Capacity ConversionCommentary in ConclusionDim Domain: Pacifist Seller to Combative Buyer8 Financial Sleight & Money LaunderingOverview in IntroductionCapital Adrift■ Parking Profits■ Cleansing CurrencyAccounting for Flight■ Defining the Dodge■ Totalling the Bill■ Robbing the PoorerPunters and Dealers■ Mainstream Businesses■ Pernicious Predicates■ Enabling ConduitsCurbing the Scam■ Penalty Policies■ Corruption Watch■ Trade TransparencyFollowing the Money■ Sanctions and Subsidies■ Extra-territorial ReachCommentary in ConclusionDim Domain: Map to Hidden Treasure9 Tracking Cross-currentsOverview in IntroductionIntersects of Commerce■ Trade-flow Directionality■ Shades of Legitimacy■ Blurred Boundaries■ Interventions SignpostedDehumanising of Persons■ Brides to Order■ Children Disowned■ Leased ReproductionPanaceas and Poisons■ Medical Concoction■ Germs and Toxins■ Narcotics LogisticsRequisitioning Resources■ Stormy Waters■ Loss at Sea■ Data MonetisedMilitary Machinations■ Technological Terrors■ Nuclear Renegades■ Revolving LobbyistsFinancial Siphonage■ Institutionalised Fraud■ Payments Ransomed■ Citizenship SaleCommentary in ConclusionDim Domain: Untangling the Dark Web10 Imperative of EngagementRetrospective and ProspectiveAppraising the Concomitants■ Globalised Economy■ Governmental Delinquency■ Corporate CulpabilityCatalysts for Remediation■ Ethical Economics■ Demand De-marketing■ Stakeholder EmpowermentPedagogy against Oppression■ Academic Conundrum■ Discerning LegitimacyCritique for Intervention■ Public Intellectualism■ Advocacy plus ActivismSolidarity towards JusticeAbbreviations & Acronyms CitedIndex