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Corporate Social Responsibility: Failures in the Oil Industry directly challenges the oil industry's claims of corporate good citizenship, now widely advanced as part of a global public relations initiative. The volume spans the industry's reach, from the troubled waters of the UK offshore Continental Shelf, with its horrendous legacy of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, to the inhospitable shores of Newfoundland with its own tragic legacy of lost lives; to the new frontier of oil corporate colonialism in the former Soviet Union and the icy plains of Alaska. The central theme of violations of basic labour rights and of health and environmental protection standards will make uncomfortable reading in the boardroom. It is equally essential reading for those who seek to improve the position of workers and industries within the oil industry's global reach.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Corporate Social Responsibility in the International Oil Industry
Charles Woolfson and Matthias BeckChapter Two: The Piper Alpha Disaster and Industrial Relations in BritainâEUR(TM)s Offshore Oil Industry
Charles Woolfson, Matthias Beck, and John FosterChapter Three: Safety and Industrial Relations in the Newfoundland Offshore Oil Industry since the Ocean Ranger Disaster in 1982
Susan M. HartChapter Four: BPâEUR(TM)s Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: The New Corporate Colonialism
James Marriott and Greg MuttittChapter Five: Northern Exposure
Michael Gillard, Melissa Jones, and Andrew RowellChapter Six: Loaded Dice: Multinational Oil, Due Process and the State
Matthias Beck and Charles WoolfsonSelected Bibliography
About the Editors
Contributors
Index
About the author
Charles Woolfson, Matthais Beck
Summary
Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil Industry directly challenges the oil industry's claims of corporate good citizenship, now widely advanced as part of a global public relations initiative.
