Description for Globalization
Paperback. Series: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis. BIC Classification: JHM; JKS; JPQB; KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
The effects of globalization have led to accentuated social inequality in most first-world countries, above all the U.S. and U.K. International trade and capital flows have tended to redistribute income in ways that aggravate inequality in advanced industrialized nations where relative income levels of the salaried middle class and the working class are being eroded, resulting in a downward mobility of these classes. At the same time, unwaged forms of labor, including forced labor and slavery, in poorer regions more and more replace wage labor in developed countries. Informed by an anthropological, humanistic perspective, the contributors in this provocative ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
Series
Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis
Number of Pages
126
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845450014
SKU
V9781845450014
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Allen Chun
Allen Chun was Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and is now Chair Professor in the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He is the author of two major monographs: Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of “Land” in the New Territories of Hong ... Read more
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