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Globalization : capitalism and its alternatives / Leslie Sklair.

Title: Globalization : capitalism and its alternatives / Leslie Sklair.
Author: Sklair, Leslie
Publication: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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372 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Explores the negative aspects of capitalist globalization, considering the crises of class polarization and ecological unsustainability. Includes chapters on the history and theory of globalization, challenges to capitalist globalization, and socialist globalization and provides an analysis of a long term alternative to global capitalism: the globalization of human rights.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Thinking about the Global -- 3. From Development to Globalization -- 4. Transnational Corporations and Capitalist Globalization -- 5. Transnational Practices: Corporations, Class, and Consumerism -- 6. Transnational Practices in the Third World -- 7. The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism -- 8. Capitalist Globalization in Communist and Postcommunist Societies -- 9. Capitalist Globalization in China -- 10. Challenges to Capitalist Globalization -- 11. From Capitalist to Socialist Globalization through the Transformation of Human Rights -- 12. Conclusion: The End of Capitalist Globalization and Alternative Futures

ISBN

0199247447

OCLC

48754235
SCSB-11062806

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Harvard Library