Globalization : critical issues / edited by Allen Chun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chun, Allen John Uck Lun, 1952- editor.

Series:

Critical interventions ; 2.

Critical interventions ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution.

Equality.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (119 p. )

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The effects of globalization have led to accentuated social inequality in most first-world countries, above all the U.S. and U.K. International trade and capital flows have tended to redistribute income in ways that aggravate inequality in advanced industrialized nations where relative income levels of the salaried middle class and the working class are being eroded, resulting in a downward mobility of these classes. At the same time, unwaged forms of labor, including forced labor and slavery, in poorer regions more and more replace wage labor in developed countries." "Informed by an anthropological, humanistic perspective, the contributors in this provocative volume offer critical analyses and alternative visions."--Jacket.

Contents:

Civil antiglobalism and the question of class / William H. Thornton

Re-theorizing social movements in a changing global space / Chuang Ya-chung

Mind the gap : on post-national idea(l)s and the nationalist reality / Wang Horng-luen

Postcolonial discourse in the age of globalization / Chu Yiu-wai

Champagne liberals and the new "dangerous classes": reconfigurations of class, identity and cultural production in the contemporary global system / Jonathan Friedman

Shifting the frame from nation-states to global market : class and social consciousness in the advanced capitalist countries / Terence Turner.

Notes:

"This volume ... was originally published in Social analysis, vol. 46."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84545-001-9