Globalization The Transformation of Social Worlds,9780534624330

Globalization The Transformation of Social Worlds

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780534624330
ISBN10: 0534624332
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-07-27
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This reader focus on the process of globalization and how it shapes societies and groups. Particular focus is placed on the United States, and its role in the globalization process, and whether the effects of globalization can be viewed as beneficial or harmful to society. The articles reflect a wide variety of concerns, and are drawn from both scholarly as well as popular sources.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Globalization: An Introduction
1(12)
Dimensions of Globalization
13(38)
Globalisation
15(6)
Anthony Giddens
Opening Scene: The World Is Ten Years Old
21(9)
Thomas L. Friedman
Globalization Opens Door to New Dangers
30(2)
Daniel Yergin
Globalization and Its Specter
32(8)
Jeremy Brecher
Tim Costello
Brendan Smith
Heavy Traffic: International Migration in an Era of Globalization
40(5)
Susan F. Martin
Dimensions of Globalization
45(6)
D. Stanley Eitzen
Debating Globalization
51(28)
Globalization: Wonder Land or Waste Land?
53(8)
Murray Weidenbaum
The Uncertainty of Digital Politics: Democracy's Uneasy Relationship with Information Technology
61(8)
Benjamin R. Barber
Free Markets and Poverty
69(5)
Christian Weller
Adam Hersh
NAFTA at 10: Where Do We Go from Here?
74(5)
Jeff Faux
Economic Globalization
79(36)
The ABCs of the Global Economy
82(10)
Maytag Moves to Mexico
92(5)
David Moberg
The Sweat Behind the Shirt: The Labor History of a Gap Sweatshirt
97(1)
Jesse Gordon
Undercover in a Chicken Factory
98(7)
Steve Striffler
Making a Killing: The Myth of Capital's Good Intentions
105(10)
Ted C. Fishman
Political Globalization
115(26)
Who Rules the World?
117(2)
James Petras
Globalism's Discontents
119(10)
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Navigating the Ethics of Globalization
129(8)
Peter Singer
A Plan for Global Security
137(4)
Fareed Zakaria
Cultural Globalization
141(32)
Global Culture: Sameness or Difference?
143(3)
Manfred B. Steger
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ally McBeal and Arranged Marriages: Globalization on the Ground in India
146(8)
Steve Derne
The Place of Community in Globalization
154(5)
Leon Fink
Empires of the Senseless
159(7)
Katharine Ainger
Cultural Homicide, Ayoh!
166(7)
Ziauddin Sardar
Social Arrangements: Gender and Family
173(58)
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
175(10)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Care Crisis in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Families in the New Global Economy
185(11)
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
Global Cities and Survival Circuits
196(20)
Saskia Sassen
Masculinities and Globalization
216(15)
R. W. Connell
The Globalization of Terror
231(28)
Globalizing Hate
234(5)
Amy Chua
A Clearly Present Danger: Confronting the Threat of Bioterrorism
239(7)
Tara O'Toole
Donald A. Henderson
Why America is Still an Easy Target
246(6)
Stephen Flynn
The Threat of Global State Terrorism: Retail vs Wholesale Terror
252(7)
Edward S. Herman
David Peterson
The Globalization of Social Problems
259(62)
The Underground Web
261(10)
Ira Sager
Ben Elgin
Peter Elstrom
Faith Keenan
Pallavi Gogoi
Big Tobacco
271(14)
Mark Schapiro
Explosive Revelation$
285(8)
Lucy Komisar
No Way Out
293(6)
Nicholas Stein
21st Century Slaves
299(8)
Andrew Cockburn
Global Warming Heats Up
307(6)
James M. Lindsay
Infectious Concerns: Modern Factors in the Spread of Disease
313(8)
Mary E. Wilson
Changing Global Structures
321(38)
Race, Class, and Globalization: The Global Struggle for Democracy
324(6)
Manning Marable
Globalization and Social Movements
330(18)
Jeremy Brecher
Tim Costello
Brendan Smith
Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas
348(6)
Tom Hayden
Bringing It All Back Home
354(5)
Jim Shultz
Websites 359

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