Globalization The Transformation of Social Worlds

by Eitzen, D. Stanley; Baca Zinn, Maxine

• ISBN13: 9780534624330
• ISBN10: 0534624332
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-27
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

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