Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Leslie Sklair (, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.20cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 24.50cm
Weight: 0.724kg
ISBN: 9780199247448
ISBN 10: 0199247447
Pages: 390
Publication Date: 11 April 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Review 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
<br> Review from previous edition 'Highly illuminating...Sklair's volume is a concise and precise treatment of a gigantic topic, the global system.' --Social Science Quarterly<p><br> '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<p><br>
`Review 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
Review from previous edition 'Highly illuminating...Sklair's volume is a concise and precise treatment of a gigantic topic, the global system.' --Social Science Quarterly<br> '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<br>
