Globalization : capitalism and its alternatives

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Title:

Author:

Sklair, Leslie.

ISBN:

9780199247448

Personal Author:

Sklair, Leslie.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Physical Description:

xvi, 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

Subject Term:

International business enterprises.

Globalization.

Capitalism.

Consumption (Economics)

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Summary

Capitalist globalization has been instrumental in globalizing civil and political rights all over the world as a condition of 'free' markets and trade, but capitalist globalizers have no answer to the rapidly accelerating demands for universal economics and social rights, expressed in the enormous growth of local, national, multinational and global NGOs and anti-globalization movements.In this book, based on his highly successful Sociology of the Global System, Leslie Sklair focuses on alternatives to global capitalism, arguing strongly that there are other alternative futures that retain and encourage the positive aspects of globalization whilst identifying what is wrong with capitalism.The negative aspects of capitalist globalization are explored in a new critique which argues that there are two main crises of capitalist globalization: the class polarization crisis and the crisis of ecological unsustainability. The book also presents a new analysis of a long-term alternative to global capitalism: the globalization of human rights.