The Ends of Globalization Bringing Society Back In

This book brings an empirical social science perspective to a public issue on which observers, economists, and business gurus have freely unleashed their abstract models and jumbo schemes. Written by internationally acclaimed authors, the chapters engage empirically tractable issues that are basic to any overall understanding of the social origins, structures, and consequences of the current wave of globalization. The book brings together in one volume diverse issues related to globalization that are generally dealt with in separate publications, such as migration, social inequality, flows of capital, Americanization and cultural identities, citizenship and collective action, and global governance. The diversity of topics and up to date discussion makes this book ideal as a text or supplementary reading for courses. As an argument for greater complexity, contingency and contradiction in contemporary debates on globalization, it is essential reading for any scholar or lay reader concerned about contemporary change.

Giovanni Arrighi is professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Jos de Beus is presently dean of the department of philosophy of the University of Groningen Jack Burgers is associate professor of sociology at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank professor of international law and practice at Princeton University Michael Hanagan teaches comparative and social history at the New School for Social Research in New York City Paul Hirst is professor of social theory at Birkbeck College, University of London Connie Hum is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles Don Kalb is an anthropologist and associate professor of general social sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands He leads the Social Consequences of Economic Transformation in East Central Europe Program (SOCO) at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna Rebecca Kim is a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles Peter Kloos is professor of sociology of non-Western societies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Marco van der Land is a sociologist and consultant for urban issues in The Netherlands Ivan Light is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles Orvar Lofgren is professor of European ethnology at the University of Lund Jan Luiten van Zanden is professor of economic and social history at Utrecht University and general secretary of the International Economic History Association Erik Olin Wright is Vilas professor at the department of sociology of the University of Wisconsin Alejandro Portes has held faculty positions at the universities of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Texas at Austin, Duke, and Johns Hopkins. Since 1987 and until he joined Princeton, he was John Dewey professor in the school of arts and sciences at Johns Hopkins. He is also president of the American Sociological Association Jan Reijnders is associate professor of economics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands Saskia Sassen is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and Centennial visiting professor at the London School of Economics John Schmitt is a labor economist with the Economic Policy Institute Richard Staring is an anthropologist with the Rotterdam Institute for Social Policy Research at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands Bart van Steenbergen is associate professor in the department of general social sciences at the University of Utrecht Goran Therborn is director of the Swedish Collegium of advanced study in the social sciences at Uppsala and professor of sociology at Goteborg University Alan Warde is professor of sociology at Lancaster University, UK Nico Wilterdink is professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and holds the Norbert Elias chair in the study of long-term social processes at Utrecht University