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Stories of globalization : transnational corporations, resistance, and the state / Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas H. Constance.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bonanno, Alessandro.
- Series:
- Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)
- [Rural studies series]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International economic integration--Case studies.
- International economic integration.
- International business enterprises--Case studies.
- International business enterprises.
- Globalization--Case studies.
- Globalization.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 321 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Transnational corporations, resistance, and the state
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- "Analyses transnational corporations, groups who resist them, and the primary context within which the relationship between transnational corporations and their opponents unfold: the state. Argues that globalization is a contested terrain in which the power of transnational corporations is affected by mounting opposition and internal contradictions"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Globalization of the economy and society : salient interpretations
- Environmentalism, industry restructuring, and global regulation : the tuna-dolphin controversy
- Transnational corporations and their power over the state : the case of Ferruzzi
- corporate power and the free global market : the Lysine Price-fixing case of ADM
- Globalization and resistance from below : the case of Industrial Chicken Production in southeast Texas
- TNCS' colonization of the local and resistance : mega hog farms in the Texas panhndle
- Old and new social movements in the global era : the case of Maxxam and the Headwaters Forest Redwoods
- NGOs under globalization : the marine stewardship council
- Challenging the globalization project : the collapse of the multilateral agreement on investment.
- Notes:
- Series statement from jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-305) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780271033891
- 0271033894
- 9780271033884
- 0271033886
- OCLC:
- 232256968
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