I have no literature to point you towards, unless you're willing to  
include the role of employment-based insurance in the financing of  
dental services as a form of corporatisation.

Anyhow, as I said before, I think that private roles are legitimate,  
in the sense that, all things being equal (and that in itself  
represents a damning portion of the argument), things can be done in  
a way that does not marginalise and that is inclusionary.

In this exact way, I think that the argument is one based on morality  
(and I don't mean private or public morality, as there is no such  
thing), not whether incorporation (of one kind or another) is  
positive or negative (as some corporations, of whatever size, can  
prove positive, negative, and/or even both).

I hope that made sense.

And by saying that it is moral, I mean this philosophically and  
practically.

This idea is fundamental as a way forward in my view, and can best be  
summed up as this:

What is the current economic market if not a moral failure?

But at the same time, again, all things being equal (ahem), we still  
very much need routes of exchange, otherwise economies, whether there  
are arguments for them locally, regionally, nationally, and/or  
internationally, and whether they are based on some form of social  
organisational unit or corporation.

Thanks for hearing me out.

CQ


On 8-Mar-07, at 4:33 PM, Ocean - WISE wrote:

> The incorporation of the non-profit sector in tandem with funders'  
> insistence that grantees be corporations further marginalizes  
> populations that are already marginalized. The cynic in me has to  
> wonder if this isn't deliberate.
>
> At any rate, in trying to find sources on the history of  
> incorporation (I've a dim recollection it was modelled on the  
> concept of citizenship), I came across this reference from an  
> online bookseller:
>
>    The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
>    by Alan Trachtenberg (1984).
>
> see http://tinyurl.com/2kwk86
>
> Has anyone read this book or know of more recent and, ideally from  
> my perspective, sources specifically addressing the incorporation  
> of Canadian life?
>
> Ocean
>
> -- 
> Chrystal Ocean, Coordinator
> Wellbeing through Inclusion Socially & Economically
> http://www.wise-bc.org/
> 250-748-8093
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