Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change. 2nd ed.

Schaeffer, Robert K.

ISBN 10: 0742519988 / ISBN 13: 9780742519985

Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change. 2nd ed.
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742519988
• ISBN 13: 9780742519985
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This best-selling text vividly shows how political and economic changes affect people's lives in different settings around the world. Five entirely new chapters in this edition survey theories of globalization (including critical and feminist perspectives); describe the globalization of production and its impact on work and gender relations; examine the impact in developing countries of export manufacturing, tourist industries, and the growing 'traffic in women'; and depict new dimensions of the environmental movement. Updates throughout the text cover recent world events, including war and international terrorism.

About the Author

Robert K. Schaeffer is professor of sociology at Kansas State University. He is the editor of War in the World-System (1990), author of Power to the People: Democratization Around the World (1997), Severed States: Dilemmas of Democracy in a Divided World (1999), and co-author, with Torry Dickinson, of Fast Forward: Work, Gender, and Protest in a Changing World (2001).