Political Science : Globalization

Bringing fresh insights to the contemporary globalization debate, this text reveals the social and political contests that give "global" its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalization as it is expressed in the restructuring of work. more...

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Delivering an incisive analysis of the efforts being made to socially regulate globalization, this new study critically evaluates the effectiveness of non-governmental organizations and the issues and problems they face. more...

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Is America's cultural, economic and military domination of the world globalization, or is it just empire? In this smart, brief book, Pieterse confronts many of the most important issues surrounding this question. more...

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Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a restructuring of everyone’s lives. This collection of treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impacts of globalization. more...

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India started on a program of reforms, both in its external and internal aspects, in the mid-1980s. While the increased exposure to world markets (globalization) and relaxation of domestic controls has undoubtedly given a spurt to the GDP growth rate, the impact of reforms on poverty, inequality and employment have been controversial. This book examines in detail these aspects of postreform India and discerns the changes and trends that these new developments have created. Providing an original analysis of unit-level data available from the quinquennial National Sample Surveys, the Annual Surveys of Industries and other basic data sources, the authors analyze and compare the results with other pieces of work in the literature. As well as describing the overall situation for India, the book highlights regional differences, and looks at the major industrial sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing and tertiary/services. Labor market institutions are discussed and the possible adverse effect on employment growth of the regulatory labor framework is examined carefully. Since any reform of this framework must go hand in hand with better state intervention in the informal sector to have any chance of acceptance politically, some of the major initiatives in this area are critically explored. The book will be of great interest to development economists, labor economists and specialists in South Asian Studies. more...

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