Juggernaut politics : understanding predatory globalization / Jacques B. Gélinas ; translated by Raymond Robitaille.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gélinas, Jacques, 1930-

Standardized Title:

Globalisation du monde. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

International economic integration.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Developing countries.

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; Nova Scotia : Fernwood ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2003.

Summary:

The need for maximum labor flexibility in order to ensure competitiveness has replaced the old aim of making workers into productive allies and mass consumers. Jacques B. Gelinas' vivid text picks out the key elements of this new economic landscape, and explains why the owners and CEO's of this new transnational economy no longer need their traditional alliance with the state and the middle classes. He depicts governments, spellbound by the market, abandoning their obligations to defend civil society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-261) and index.

ISBN:

184277168X

1842771698

OCLC:

51336554