Globalization and its discontents / edited by Stephen McBride and John Wiseman. - xvi, 237 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Theoretical Perspectives -- What is Globalization / The Politics of Globalization and Labor Strategies / Political Agency and the Instruments of Globalization -- Globalization as Discipline / Creating the Institutions of the Global Economy? / The Right Thing / International Financial Institutions, International Capital Flows, and Financial Liberalization in Developing Countries / Benchmarking, Global Best Practice, and Production Renorming in the Australian Coal Industry / Contradictions and Ambiguities -- Global Markets and State Power / The Making of the Citizen Self and Citizen Other / Globalization and Cross-Border People Movements / The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Labor Clause Proposal / A "Double Movement" / Crisis, Levels of Action and Alternatives -- Economic Turmoil in Asia / Rethinking Global Strategies / Alternatives to Oppressive Globalization / Stephen McBride & John Wiseman -- Gary Teeple -- Stephen McBride -- Dick Bryan & Michael Rafferty -- Brian MacLean, Osvaldo Croci & Paul Bowles -- Rob Watts -- James Busumtwi-Sam -- Bradley Bowden & Bob Russell -- Michael Webb -- Nandita Sharma -- Theodore Cohn -- Michelle Swenarchuk -- James Rice & Michael Prince -- John Price -- Marjorie Griffin Cohen -- John Wiseman. Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV.

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