Globalization : The Transformation of Social Worlds

by Eitzen,D. Stanley

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2nd

ISBN13:

9780495504320

ISBN10:

0495504327

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

2/18/2008

Publisher(s):

Cengage Learning

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This popular and thought-provoking reader collects 42 interesting and highly relevant articles that explore the process of globalization and how it shapes societies and groups. Particular focus is placed on the United States, its role in the globalization process, and whether the effects of globalization can be viewed as beneficial or harmful to society. The articles, which reflect a wide variety of concerns and perspectives, are drawn from both scholarly and popular sources.

Preface	p. ix
Globalization: An Introduction	p. 1
Dimensions of Globalization	p. 10
Globalisation	p. 11
The World Is Flat	p. 18
Globalization and Its Specter	p. 23
Heavy Traffic: International Migration in an Era of Globalization	p. 31
Dimensions of Globalization	p. 37
Debating Globalization	p. 43
Why the World Isn't Flat	p. 45
Globalization: Wonder Land or Waste Land?	p. 51
Free Markets and Poverty	p. 59
NAFTA at 10: Where Do We Go from Here?	p. 64
Economic Globalization	p. 68
The ABCs of the Global Economy	p. 70
Maytag Moves to Mexico	p. 81
The Sweat Behind the Shirt: The Labor History of a Gap Sweatshirt	p. 86
Double Jeopardy: Gender and Migration in Electronics Manufacturing	p. 87
Globalization and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the United States	p. 99
Making Globalization Work: The Multinational Corporation	p. 106
Political Globalization	p. 117
Globalism's Discontents	p. 119
Navigating the Ethics of Globalization	p. 130
Why Mexico's Small Corn Farmers Go Hungry	p. 137
Binational Citizens: Mexican Migrants Are Challenging Old Ideas about Assimilation	p. 139
Cultural Globalization	p. 145
Global Culture: Sameness or Difference?	p. 147
The Place of Community in Globalization	p. 151
Empires of the Senseless	p. 156
The Restructuring of Social Arrangements: Gender, Families, and Relationships	p. 163
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy	p. 165
The Care Crisis in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Families in the New Global Economy	p. 175
Global Cities and Survival Circuits	p. 187
Masculinities and Globalization	p. 209
The Globalization of Terror	p. 224
Globalizing Hate	p. 226
The Car-Bomb: Terror's Globalisation	p. 231
The Threat of Global State Terrorism: Retail vs Wholesale Terror	p. 234
The Globalization of Social Problems	p. 240
The Underground Web	p. 242
Big Tobacco	p. 252
Explosive Revelation$	p. 266
No Way Out	p. 275
21st Century Slaves	p. 281
Climate Refugees: Global Warming Will Spur Migration	p. 289
Global Warming: Population Transfers Ignored	p. 291
Changing Global Structures: Resistance and Social Movements	p. 295
Globalization and Social Movements	p. 298
Globalization and Racialization	p. 317
Hunger on the Border: Interview with Julia Quinones	p. 323
Students Against Sweatshops	p. 328
The Rise of Food Democracy	p. 334
Cyberfeminism, Technology, and International "Development"	p. 338
Websites	p. 351
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