Unequal Partners: A Primer on Globalization - Softcover

Tabb, William K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565847229 ISBN 13: 9781565847224

Publisher: The New Press, 2002

Synopsis

We know that globalization has sent labor from industrialized countries to the Third World, where workers are paid far less. But do we know the effect of the global market on education, the spread of AIDS, and the costs of basic medicines? In clear detail, Unequal Partners shows how the merger of corporate and governmental interests has sacrificed public health and the environment for profits. The book also provides a blueprint for resistance by describing “globalization from below”: the coalition of movements that has been increasingly effective in influencing corporate and governmental behavior worldwide. Unequal Partners is for anyone who wants to understand how to keep the escalating forces of globalization in check.

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About the Author

William K. Tabb is professor of economics at Queens College and professor of political science at the Graduate Center of the City of New York.

From Publishers Weekly

The world is heading toward "corporate globalization," according to Queens College economics professor Tabb. Multinational entities use unrestrained economic power to decide political, social and ethical questions. Like the global justice movement, the loose coalition of protesting groups whose exploits Tabb reviews in the opening chapter, the book itself conveys a deep, energetic opposition to unbridled corporate power, but isn't always able to articulate clear policy positions. It comes out against many things, e.g., AIDS, environmental destruction, cultural homogenization, poverty, money laundering and exploitation. These problems are described only in broad strokes, without a discussion of solutions. Also absent is the admission that choices have to be made: labor unions often disagree with environmentalists, for example, and standard-of-living issues sometimes conflict with the survival of indigenous cultural practices. Tabb's discussion focuses entirely on enemies: governments that don't stand up for justice, corporations and multinational entities that are accountable only to an undefined elite, and individual decisions (as represented in elections and free market choices) that are antithetical to the idea of civil society. This is a book for energizing people who believe in good guys and bad guys and already know who's who.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1565847229
• ISBN 13: 9781565847224
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 273