Introducing Globalization [[electronic resource] ] : Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration

• Autore: Sparke Matthew
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Wiley, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (509 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/2; 303.482; 327
• Soggetto topico: Globalization; International economic integration; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Globalization; 1.1 Introducing a World of Interdependency and a Word; 1.1.1 Globalization as integration; 1.1.2 Globalization as buzzword; 1.2 The Networks of Global Interdependency; 1.2.1 The interdependencies of commodities; 1.2.2 The interdependencies of workers; 1.2.3 The interdependencies of money; 1.2.4 The interdependencies of the law; 1.2.5 The interdependencies of governance; 1.2.6 The interdependencies of space; 1.2.7 The interdependencies of health ; 2 Discourse2.1 Globalization as Dominant Discourse; 2.1.1 The myth of newness; 2.1.2 The myth of inevitability; 2.1.3 The myth of global leveling; 2.2 Dissident Discourse on Globalization; 3 Commodities; 3.1 What is a Commodity?; 3.2 World Trade; 3.3 Commodity Chains; 3.3.1 The emergence of global competition; 3.3.2 The development of global management; 3.4 TNCs; 3.4.1 When?; 3.4.2 Why?; 3.4.3 Where?; 3.4.4 How?; 4 Labor; 4.1 Interdependence and the Far-from-Flat World of Workers; 4.2 The Changing Geographical Division of Labor; 4.3 The Changing Social Divisions of Labor ; 4.3.1 Changing pattern of class division4.3.2 Changing pattern of gender division; 4.3.3 Changing patterns of racial division; 4.4 Transnational Responses of Organized Labor; 5 Money; 5.1 The Meanings of Money; 5.2 From Bretton Woods to the Rise of Global Finance; 5.2.1 From Bretton Woods to the breakdown of the dollar-gold peg; 5.2.2 Floating exchange rates and the development of the global casino; 5.2.3 Floating exchange rates and global recession; 5.2.4 The rise of debt-based dollar dominance; 5.3 Debt, Inequality, and Global Poverty Management; 5.3.1 The development of the debt crises ; 5.3.2 Debt and dispossession5.3.3 Structural adjustment; 5.3.4 From debt rescheduling to debt relief; 5.3.5 Microcredit and microfinance; 6 Law; 6.1Trade Agreements and the Globalization of Commercial Law; 6.1.1 Competition; 6.1.2 Harmonization; 6.1.3 Monopolization; 6.2Courts, Human Rights, and Judicial Globalization; 6.3Social Justice and the Grassroots Globalization of Law; 6.3.1 Cross-border judicial reform and harmonization; 6.3.2 Use of existing courts to fight transnational social justice cases; 6.3.3 Transnational advocacy networks (TANs); 7 Governance ; 7.1 The End of the Nation-State?7.1.1 New-ness and national-state sovereignty; 7.1.2 Inevitability and national-state authority; 7.1.3 Leveling and national-state hegemony; 7.2 Inter-Governmental Institutions of Global Governance; 7.2.1 The IMF, World Bank, and the Institutionalization of American Interest; 7.2.2 Structural adjustment and the global entrenchment of "good governance"; 7.3 Non-Governmental Organizations of Global Governance; 7.3.1 How are NGOs and their practices governed?; 7.3.2 How does NGO governance relate to global governance?; 8 Space ; 8.1 Uneven Development, Geopolitics, and Geoeconomics
• Sommario/riassunto: Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners. Identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependencyExamines a broad sweep of topics, from the rise of transnational corporations and global commodity chains, to global health challenges and policies, to issues of worker solidarity and global labor markets, through to emerging
• Titolo autorizzato: Introducing globalization
• ISBN: 1-299-15880-3; 1-118-24110-X; 1-118-24111-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463142903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II