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Critical Globalization Studies is the first volume to map out a
critical approach to the rapidly growing field of gloablization
studies. Centrally concerned with global justice, the contributors
both scrutinze and recast the subject. As well, the volume serves
as a bridge connecting scholars of globalization, the policy world,
and the global justice movement. The essays examine a wide range of
topics too often left at the margin of globalization studies and in
the process raise a host of crucial questions. Unique in its
extensive and comprehensive approach, Critical Globalization
Studies develops new and important theoretical perspectives on
globalization while engaging global social activism. It is an
indispenseable guide for both academics and practitioners.
Critical Globalization Studies is the first volume to map out a
critical approach to the rapidly growing field of gloablization
studies. Centrally concerned with global justice, the contributors
both scrutinze and recast the subject. As well, the volume serves
as a bridge connecting scholars of globalization, the policy world,
and the global justice movement. The essays examine a wide range of
topics too often left at the margin of globalization studies and in
the process raise a host of crucial questions. Unique in its
extensive and comprehensive approach, Critical Globalization
Studies develops new and important theoretical perspectives on
globalization while engaging global social activism. It is an
indispenseable guide for both academics and practitioners.
In this innovative and entirely original text, which has been
thoughtfully edited to ensure coherence and readability across
disciplines, scientists and practitioners from around the world
provide evidence of the opportunities for, and the challenges of,
developing collaborative approaches to bringing advanced and
emerging technology to poor communities in developing countries in
a responsible and sustainable manner. This volume will stimulate
and satisfy readers seeking to engage in a rich and challenging
discussion, integrating many strands of social thought and physical
science. For those also seeking to creatively engage in the great
challenges of our times for the benefit of struggling farmers, sick
children, and people literally living in the dark around the world,
may this volume also spark imagination, inspire commitment, and
provoke collaborative problem solving.
In this innovative and entirely original text, which has been
thoughtfully edited to ensure coherence and readability across
disciplines, scientists and practitioners from around the world
provide evidence of the opportunities for, and the challenges of,
developing collaborative approaches to bringing advanced and
emerging technology to poor communities in developing countries in
a responsible and sustainable manner. This volume will stimulate
and satisfy readers seeking to engage in a rich and challenging
discussion, integrating many strands of social thought and physical
science. For those also seeking to creatively engage in the great
challenges of our times for the benefit of struggling farmers, sick
children, and people literally living in the dark around the world,
may this volume also spark imagination, inspire commitment, and
provoke collaborative problem solving.
The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment
workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory
complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the
two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This
so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not
merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so
common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers' Rights in the
Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue
that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working
conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of
workers who labor in the export industries of the global South
arise from the very nature of world trade and production. Given
their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands
and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global
capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chains-such as those with
Walmart, Apple, and Nike at their heads-generate at least half of
all world trade and include hundreds of millions of workers at
thousands of contract manufacturers from Shenzhen and Shanghai to
Sao Paulo and San Pedro Sula. This book offers an incisive analysis
of this pernicious system along with essays that outline a set of
practical guides to its radical reform.
The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment
workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory
complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the
two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This
so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not
merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so
common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers' Rights in the
Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue
that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working
conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of
workers who labor in the export industries of the global South
arise from the very nature of world trade and production. Given
their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands
and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global
capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chains-such as those with
Walmart, Apple, and Nike at their heads-generate at least half of
all world trade and include hundreds of millions of workers at
thousands of contract manufacturers from Shenzhen and Shanghai to
Sao Paulo and San Pedro Sula. This book offers an incisive analysis
of this pernicious system along with essays that outline a set of
practical guides to its radical reform.
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