This study examines the crucial contribution of Chinese business groups to the rapid growth of South-East Asia. It looks at major Chinese firms and their increasingly important networks in this era of regional interdependence and internationalization of production processes.
This text details the critical relationship between organized business and globalization. Bringing together an international team of scholars, the chapters focus on theoretical issues, and regions, drawn from the major trading regimes around the globe.
An exploration of globalization and its effect on resistance movements all over the world.
This work tells the story - the response of ordinary people around the world to the irreversible juggernaut of the global economy. Readers are shown attempts to create alternatives by those for whom globalization has no need.
Jacques Gelinas explains why the owners and chief executives of the new transnational economy no longer need their traditional alliance with the state and the middle classes. Governments, spellbound by the market, are abandoning their obligations to defend civil society.
Transnational mining companies are often larger than national economies, and dominate governments, local peoples and their environments. This text discusses strategies for change and justice and includes accounts of indigenous peoples experiences of the predatory nature of the corporations.
After half a century of disappointed hopes, where do developing countries go from here? In this volume, two economists refute some of the main myths of free market globalization in trenchant fashion. introducing the alternative economic policies that can be and have been successfully pursued.
Prostitution is changing under the influence of Western affluence, deepening Third World poverty, cheaper travel, cultural shifts in attitudes to extra-marital sex,and the Internet. This global survey looks at the prostitutes themselves, their clients, and the pimps and international traffickers.
All over the world, public participation in democratic politics is declining sharply. Why and how has democracy come to be undermined in this way? This volume explores this redefinition of the boundaries of the economic and the political spheres.
This is a short and trenchant history of those organizations - the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and Group of Seven - which have promoted economic glodalization and which are trying to manage what is in effect unmanageable.
The global justice movement is giving increasing voice to alternatives to globalization as presented to us by giant corporations and the free market. This collection brings together the most important themes and voices which these rapidly growing, diverse citizens' movements have expressed.
The global justice movement is giving increasing voice to alternatives to globalization as presented to us by giant corporations and the free market. This collection brings together the most important themes and voices which these rapidly growing, diverse citizens' movements have expressed.
A survey of the impacts of neo-liberal policies on Mexico over the last 20 years
A sustained critique of the global political economy from an indigenous scholar