An updated version of Leslie Sklair's highly successful Sociology of the Global System, this book examines the positive and negative aspects of capitalist globalization and develops a new theory of possible alternative futures. Essential reading for anyone interested in the ongoing debate in this topical area, and especially for those studying the area as part of politics or sociology
courses.
Globalization
Capatalism and Its Alternatives
Leslie Sklair
Price: £22.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924744-8
Publication date: 11 April 2002
392 pages, 246x171 mm
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| Review(s) from previous edition:
- ''Highly illuminating...Sklair's volume is a concise and precise treatment of a gigantic topic, the global system.'' - Social Science Quarterly
- ''Superbly organized...Beginning students will be able to use this book and its bibliography as a window on and guide to the emergence of global capitalism'' - Contemporary Sociology
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| Description | | - Leslie Sklair is a highly respected scholar in the field of Globalization and his book 'Sociology of the Global System' on which this book is based has been widely used as a core text since its original publication in 1991
- Updated and refocused to consider global capitalism within the context of alternative futures which encourage the positive aspects of globalization and identify the negative aspects of capitalism.
- The negative aspects of capitalist globalization are explored in a new critique and the class polarization crisis and the crisis of ecological unsustainability are considered.
- The book also presents a new analysis of a long-term alternative to global capitalism: the globalization of human rights.
- The book has been rewritten and expanded throughout, including a new introduction, and new chapters on 'From development to globalization'; 'The end of capitalist globalization?' and 'From capitalist globalization to Socialist Globalization'
- Very accessibly written, this book deals with a huge subject in a concise and illuminating way for a student readership
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Capitalist globalization has been instrumental in globalizing civil and political rights all over the world as a condition of 'free' markets and trade, but capitalist globalizers have no answer to the rapidly accelerating demands for universal economics and social rights, expressed in the enormous growth of local, national, multinational and global NGOs and anti-globalization movements.
In
this book, based on his highly successful Sociology of the Global System
, Leslie Sklair focuses on alternatives to global capitalism, arguing strongly that there are other alternative futures that retain and encourage the positive aspects of globalization whilst identifying what is wrong with capitalism.
The negative aspects of capitalist globalization are explored in a new critique which
argues that there are two main crises of capitalist globalization: the class polarization crisis and the crisis of ecological unsustainability. The book also presents a new analysis of a long-term alternative to global capitalism: the globalization of human rights.
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Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying globlalization on Social Science degree courses
| Contents |
1.
Introduction
2.
Thinking about the Global
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From development to globalization
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Transnational practices
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Corporations, classes and consumerism
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Transnational practices in the Third World
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The culture-ideology of consumerism
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Communist and postcommunist societies in the capitalist global system
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China and the global system
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The end of capitalist globalization?
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From capitalist globalization to socialist globalization: The transformation to human rights
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| Authors, editors,
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Leslie Sklair, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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