What is corporation?
In the very beginning a corporation, as an institution, is being compared with many things or animals. The narrator in the film stated, that: “a corporation is one form of business ownership; group of individuals working together, to serve a variety of objectives, the principal one of which is earning large growing sustained legal returns for the people, who own the business” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw). As the understanding of the law evolved, and with the 14th Amendment passed in Congress, a corporation became a “legal person” that has a right to sell and buy, take a loan or lend money, sue anyone and be sued, basically all of the rights humans have, but without actually being one.
Why labor unions are so big?
The labor unions throughout the world became big in size only due to the numerous and enormous violations done by corporations. And corporations tend not only to violate human rights, or show disregard for pollution of ecosystems, they also deny basic human rights for free water, for instance in Bolivia; use child labor; corporate giants reject providing and moreover, prevent anyone from sharing the truthful information about corporate activities to the customers and society. So, in order, at least, to lower the influence of corporations on those spheres, labor unions are being created and operated in those big corporations.
Review of the video.
If talking about this documentary film in general, it tells us a story about corporations, beginning with the history of creation, evolution and up to the present state. During the whole film a lot of spheres influenced by the corporate activity were brought up; there were some certain positive points about this particular institution, but what the whole story was really about is the damage that corporations bring with themselves.
References
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw
