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Tables of Contents for Globalization
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Boxes, Figures, Tables
xiii
Selected Abbreviations
xiv
Introduction
1
11
The problem of globalization
1
2
Globalization and everyday life
2
1
Capitalist globalization
3
5
Globalization, capitalist globalization, and the state system
5
3
Transnational practices
8
2
Structure of the book
10
2
Notes
11
1
Thinking About the Global
12
17
Classifying the global system
13
13
Income-based classifications
13
3
Trade-based classifications
16
2
Resource-based classifications
18
2
Quality of life-based classifications
20
2
Region and bloc-based classifications
22
4
Conclusion
26
3
Notes
27
2
From Development to Globalization
29
30
Theories of development as embryonic theories of the global
30
5
Imperialism
30
1
Modernization
31
1
Neo-Marxism
32
2
Modes of production
34
1
Competing conceptions of globalization
35
13
World-systems
40
2
Global culture
42
2
Global polity and society
44
1
Global capitalism
45
2
Summing up the approaches
47
1
The class polarization crisis
48
5
The crisis of ecological unsustainability
53
6
Notes
57
2
Transnational Corporations and Capitalist Globalization
59
25
Economy, polity, culture-ideology
60
3
History and theory of the transnational corporation (TNC)
63
9
Research on TNCs
63
7
TNCs and foreign direct investment
70
2
TNCs and governments
72
12
The Volta dam and the Enron project
74
5
Indigenization in Nigeria
79
2
Notes
81
3
Transnational Practices: Corporations, Class, and consumerism
84
34
The conceptual space for transnational practices [TNP]
84
2
The physical spaces for transnational practices
86
3
Economic transnational practices
89
7
Jobs
91
4
Linkages
95
1
Political transnational practices
96
2
The transnational capitalist class
98
7
Labour and the transnational capitalist class
100
1
Downgrading of indigenous practices
101
4
Culture-ideology transnational practices
105
3
The culture-ideology of consumerism
108
7
Consumerism and the information technology revolution
111
4
The theory of the global system: a summary
115
3
Notes
116
2
Transnational Practices in the Third World
118
46
Economic transnational practices in the Third World
121
1
Transnational corporations in the Third World
122
16
TNC employment
125
3
TNCs and the sexual division of labour
128
4
Transnational pressures on TNCs
132
3
Training and technology
135
3
The global food system
138
5
Women and food
142
1
Agribusiness
143
9
Genetically modified crops
149
3
Political transnational practices in the Third World
152
3
The transnational capitalist class in the Third World
155
5
The African bourgeoisie
158
2
From triple alliances to the transnational capitalist class
160
4
Notes
161
3
The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism
164
44
Consumerism and producerism
164
3
Cultural imperialism and media imperialism
167
7
Latin American research on the media
171
3
The new world information order
174
6
Control of global media markets
176
4
Advertising and the spread of consumerism
180
7
Global exposure
183
1
Delivering the goods
184
3
Case studies in global consumerism
187
17
The baby bottle feed controversy
187
3
Drugs, health, and profits
190
3
Cola wars
193
4
The global smoke ring
197
7
Conclusion
204
4
Notes
206
2
Capitalist Globalization in Communist and Postcommunist Societies
208
36
Communism and socialism defined
208
2
The socialist Third World
210
4
Cuba
210
2
Nicaragua
212
2
Socialism in sub-Saharan Africa
214
8
Tanzania
215
3
Mozambique
218
4
Transnational practices and the Old Second World
222
5
TNCs in the Old Second World
224
3
Transitions from communism to postcommunism
227
13
Choices for socialist societies
236
4
Conclusion
240
4
Notes
241
3
Capitalist Globalization in China
244
28
New China
244
6
The opening door
244
6
The labour market
250
2
Classes in the New China
252
11
Officials
254
1
Private entrepreneurs
255
1
Globalizing executives and professionals
256
3
Is there a transnational capitalist class in China?
259
4
The culture-ideology of consumerism in China
263
9
Media in China
267
3
Notes
270
2
Challenges to Capitalist Globalization
272
27
Counter movements
273
4
Protectionism
273
2
New social movements
275
1
Green movements
275
2
The anti-globalization movement
277
16
The defeat of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)
287
4
The battle of Seattle and after
291
2
The nonviolent alternative to capitalist globalization
293
6
Notes
296
3
From Capitalist to Socialist Globalization through the Transformation of Human Rights
299
23
Alternatives to capitalist globalization
300
6
Seeds of socialist globalization
302
4
The globalization of human rights
306
11
Human rights and social responsibilities
311
2
The official human rights movement
313
1
NGOs and civil society
314
3
Protecting human rights
317
5
Notes
319
3
Conclusion: the End of Capitalist Globalization and Alternative Futures
322
5
Socialist globalization
322
5
Democracy
322
1
Human rights
323
1
Socialism
324
3
References
327
34
Index
361