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"'Brides-to-be hoping for a diamond engagement ring are advised to keep Glitter & Greed out of their fiances' hands' Boston Globe"
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Rare, romantic, and forever: The diamond industry depends on these myths to reap billions of dollars of profit. This sensational investigation explodes such fallacies and reveals how multimillion dollar advertising campaigns create the impression of rarity and romance. It reveals, too, a very secret and unromantic world, one that is dominated and controlled by a handful of mighty corporations. Taking us through seven decades of intrigue and manipulation that span the globe, Janine Roberts has written the most expansive and explosive expose ever on diamonds.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"Glitter & Greed" is an excellent institutional history of what really takes place within the diamond industry. This excellent piece of research stresses the need to implement reform within the diamond industry and at the same time, the book uncovers many of the secrets that subsist within the world's most dangerous and secretive business.
Janine Roberts is a courageous woman whose efforts and contributions, as well as extensive background as an investigative journalist and human rights activist permitted her to publish (unquestionably) the most detailed and most commonsensical report of the diamond cartel that has ever been published.
In addition to being informing, "Glitter and Greed" is a worthwhile read that is equally engaging.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Jan Roberts uncovers chapter after chapter of the outrageous abuses developed by DeBeers in order to protect its huge profits, ripping diamonds out of the heart of Africa, along with its wealth. This courageous woman must be the the number one expert in her field, and the detail she gives is astonishing and compelling. Major publishers felt this book would be a sensation (which it is) but all were bullied into dropping it because DeBeers was so afraid of what that she has to tell. Inhuman human rights abuses (slavery - happening now - child labour, picking diamonds out of asbestos etc, causing death by TB to miners), bullying tactics, disinformation, bolstering Apartheid, stealing the land (and diamonds) of indiginous races - desecrating burial and holy sites, installing and supporting corrupt African regimes (murdering popular politicians who got in the way), stealing diamonds from the Allies to give to Hitler when his war machine was going to break down, even persuading (bribing workers in) the US government to buy vast amounts of diamonds at overinflated prices then forcing them to sell them back to DeBeers (the US Govt had far more than it needed) at a huge loss, buying up all the diamond finds and mines it could and running them into the ground (or not mining them) to encourage the outright and blatant lie that diamonds are rare. Diamonds are everywhere - gem quality stones mined for $12 a carat; but so many of them dripping with blood.
If you thought Conflict Diamonds were a problem, you're not even part way there: the largest producer has an appalling record, all the more appalling because it was rubber stamped by so many major players. We are all complicit in this.
If you thought Conflict Diamonds were a problem, you're not even part way there: the largest producer has an appalling record, all the more appalling because it was rubber stamped by so many major players. We are all complicit in this.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Expected some great insight into the diamond business and de Beers and was left wanting. Not worth the effort of the read in my opinion.
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