Development and Social Change

by McMichael, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780761986676
• ISBN10: 0761986677
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Pine Forge Pr

Summary

This new edition in the Sociology for a New Century Series is a wonderful supplement to any course in the undergraduate or beginning graduate curriculum that focuses on globalization. It is the first book published for undergraduates which presents a coherent explanation for how "globalization" took root in the public discourse and how "globalization" represents a shift away from "development" as a way to think about non-western societies. The book is full of case studies that help to make the intricacies of globalization concrete, meaningful, and clear to students.

Author Biography

Philip McMichael grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Adelaide. After traveling in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and working in a community in Papua New Guinea, he pursued his doctorate in sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has taught at the University of New England (New South Wales), Swarthmore College, and the University of Georgia and is presently Professor and Chair of Development Sociology at Cornell University

Table of Contents

About the Author	xii
Foreword	xiii
Preface to the Second Edition	xv
Acknowledgments	xx
A Timeline of Developmentalism and Globalism	xxii
Development and the Global Marketplace	xxvii
What Is the World Coming To?	xxvii
The Global Marketplace	xxxii
Commodity Chains and Development	xxxii
Global Networks	xxxiv
Social Dimensions of the Global Marketplace	xxxvii
Case Study The Hamburger Connection	xxxviii
Dimensions of Social Change in the Global Marketplace	xl
Development as a Global Process	xli
PART I The Development Project (Late 1940s to Early 1970s)	1	(76)
Instituting the Development Project	3	(40)
Colonialism	4	(10)
Decolonization	14	(2)
National Liberation, Development, and Counter-insurgency	16	(3)
Latin American Development: The Colombian Coffee Industry	19	(2)
Postwar Decolonization and the Rise of the Third World	21	(4)
Ingredients of the Development Project	25	(4)
Internalization of the Development Project, or Internal Colonialism?	29	(2)
The Development Project Framed	31	(3)
The Indian Version of Development	34	(6)
Summary	40	(3)
The Development Project in Global Context	43	(34)
The International Framework of the Development Project	44	(6)
Banking on the Development Project	50	(6)
Remaking the International Division of Labor	56	(1)
South Korea in the Changing International Division of Labor	57	(2)
The Food Regime and the Changing Division of World Labor	59	(6)
Remaking Third World Agricultures	65	(2)
How Food Commodity Complexes Reveal Social Structuring	67	(5)
The Green Revolution and the Development Mentality	72	(3)
Summary	75	(2)
PART II The Development Project Unravels	77	(70)
The Global Economy Reborn	79	(34)
Divergent Developments	80	(3)
The Newly Industrializing Country (NIC) Phase in Context	83	(4)
The World Factory in China	87	(2)
The Global Production System	89	(3)
The World Car: From Ford and Mitsubishi	92	(7)
Global Subcontracting in Saipan	99	(1)
Global Agribusiness	100	(1)
Agribusiness Brings You the World Steer	101	(2)
Thailand Becomes a New Agricultural Country (NAC)	103	(3)
Global Sourcing and Regionalism	106	(2)
Regional Strategy of a Southern Transnational Corporation	108	(3)
Summary	111	(2)
International Finance and the Rise of Global Managerialism	113	(34)
Financial Globalization	114	(7)
The New International Economic Order (NIEO) Initiative and the Politics of Development	121	(5)
The Debt Regime	126	(5)
The Social Costs of Mexican Debt Rescheduling	131	(2)
Global Managerialism	133	(5)
Turning the Dominican Republic Inside Out	138	(1)
Restructuring States and Societies	139	(1)
Restructuring the Mexican State/Society	140	(3)
Tanzanian Society Absorbs Structural Adjustment	143	(2)
Summary	145	(2)
PART III The Globalization Project (1980-)	147	(92)
Instituting the Globalization Project	149	(40)
Beyond National Development	150	(1)
The Islamic Counter-Movement	151	(3)
The Globalization Project	154	(1)
Chile---The Model of Economic Liberalization	155	(5)
Restructuring in Eastern Europe	160	(2)
Restructuring in Singapore: A Successful Mini-Dragon	162	(2)
Global Governance	164	(6)
GATT Institutionalizes Green Power in the Philippines	170	(4)
Indian Mobilization Against Bio-Piracy	174	(5)
NAFTA and the Question of Sovereignty	179	(2)
The Globalization Project as a Utopia	181	(5)
Summary	186	(3)
The Globalization Project: Structural Instabilities	189	(50)
Global Labor Force Bifurcation	190	(2)
The Mexican Campesino Shapes the Global Labor Force	192	(4)
Labor Organizing in the Globalization Project	196	(4)
The Hybridity of Lean Production in Agribusiness: Mexican Tomatoes	200	(3)
Migrant Labor in the Global Economy: Economic and Environmental Refugees	203	(1)
Trafficking in Women: The Global Sex Industry vs. Human Rights	204	(3)
Migrant Workers and European Xenophobia	207	(1)
Informal Activity	208	(4)
Informalization vs. the African State: The Other Side of ``Globalization''	212	(5)
Africa in the Globalization Project	217	(1)
Legitimacy Crisis	218	(4)
Development, Class, and Democracy in Brazil	222	(2)
The IMF Food Riots	224	(4)
Identity Politics and the Fracturing and Underdevelopment of Nigeria	228	(4)
Financial Crisis	232	(1)
Indonesian Democratization as a Condition of the Globalization Project	233	(2)
South Korea in Crisis: Running Down the Showcase	235	(1)
Summary	236	(3)
PART IV Rethinking Development	239	(66)
The Globalization Project and Its Counter-movements	241	(36)
Fundamentalism	242	(2)
Environmentalism	244	(4)
Resistance to the Narmada Dam Project in India	248	(2)
Deforestation Under the Globalization Project, Post-Earth Summit	250	(3)
Managing the Global Commons: The GEF and Nicaraguan Biosphere Reserves	253	(2)
Chico Mendes, Brazilian Environmentalist by Default	255	(3)
Local Environmental Managers in Ghana	258	(1)
Feminism	259	(4)
Human Rights vs. Cultural Rights: The Ritual of Female Genital Mutilation	263	(1)
The Kikuyu Cooperative in Kenya	264	(2)
Women's Rights and Fertility	266	(3)
Cosmopolitan Localism	269	(1)
Andean Counter-development, or ``Cultural Affirmation	269	(5)
Summary	274	(3)
Whither Development?	277	(28)
Legacies of the Development Project	277	(7)
Rethinking Development	284	(3)
Indian Community Resistance to Corporate Development	287	(3)
The Civil Side of Globalization	290	(5)
Global Meets Local: The Micro-Credit Business	295	(7)
Conclusion	302	(3)
Endnotes	305	(16)
References	321	(24)
Recommended Supplements to This Text	345	(2)
Glossary/Index	347