Global Squeeze [Hardcover]

Richard C. Longworth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1998

Global Squeeze examines the impact that glob alisation has had on key first world countries - the United States, Germany, France and Japan - and analyses their curre nt situations. '

Product Details

• Hardcover: 293 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809229749
• ISBN-13: 978-0809229741
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,778,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Now a fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Richard C. Longworth was formerly an award-winning foreign correspondent and senior writer at the Chicago Tribune. His previous book, Global Squeeze, was lauded by Foreign Affairs as 'an engrossing study of how advanced societies grapple with the disruptive forces of global markets.' Twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Longworth lives in Chicago.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An important look at the dark side of globalization, April 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Global Squeeze: The Coming Crisis for First-World Nations (Paperback)

With all the hoopla surrounding the surging American economy and stock market, it's refreshing to read something that offers an intelligent and unbiased view of the harm and instability resulting from the fluidity of large multinational conglomerates that freely move about from one nation to another in search of cheap labor. Longworth's astute and meticulous analysis shows us all the full impact of globalization on the people who live with it on a daily basis. This book would be particularly valuable, I think, to young people in college-level current events courses.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mr. President, please read this!, April 18, 2003

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DCM (Rockford, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Global Squeeze (Hardcover)

I read Global Squeeze when it first came out. It's much more realistic than any others I've read since. (Future Perfect, Maestro, Independently Wealthy) I can see no hope for our middle class due to the job exports in all occupational categories. For the latest real world view read Business Week, Feb. 3, 2003, "The Global Job Shift."

We are in real trouble.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It is the Crisis of World Capitalism- Not Just First world's, January 31, 2001

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devabhaktuni.paparao - See all my reviews

This review is from: Global Squeeze: The Coming Crisis for First-World Nations (Paperback)

The book would better be titled "The First world squeeze", because if we go by the parameters of this book, what we find is a purely First world crisis.This crisis infact looks like a boon for the labour-cheap thirdworld or developing countries. But, combined with the on going hi-tech revolution, it could mean a elite class in the third world also. This is the sort of reality we find, as we observe the yawninig gap in the developing countries also, between its rich and poor. So, it looks like that the world's poor are being pitted agianst the rich and privileged few of the world more and more as the Globalization advances. Going by the present trend in polarisation of the classess world wide it looks-the day is not far off when the working class of the world would rise in unison, to deliver a death blow to the global capitalist system- as predicted by Karl Marx 150 years back.