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 book will continue to offer a concise and illuminating treatment of globalization for all students and academics in understanding how the global system works.
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"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
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Leslie Sklair is a Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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When the first edition of Sociology of the Global System was published at the end of 1990 globalization was a relatively new and controversial idea in academia and in the advanced echelons of the corporate elite. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
socialist globalization, capitalist global system, class polarization crisis, global culture approach, economic transnational practices, development historical bloc, capitalist globalization, globalizing politicians, political transnational practices, transnational capitalist class, globalizing corporations, global capitalist project, ecological unsustainability, globalizing bureaucrats, global system theory, transnational economic practices, transnational political practices, ooo dresses, global systems theory, consumerist elites, dependency reversal, socialist entrepreneurs, capitalist triumphalism, global food system, promotional culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third World, First World, World Bank, Hong Kong, Soviet Union, Latin America, United States, South Africa, New York, New Second World, United Nations, North America, South Korea, Philip Morris, Third Way, Advertising Age, New Labour, Business Week, Czech Republic, Fortune Global, General Motors, Southern Africa, Amnesty International, Central America, Ivory Coast New!
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When the first edition of Sociology of the Global System was published at the end of 1990 globalization was a relatively new and controversial idea in academia and in the advanced echelons of the corporate elite. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
socialist globalization, capitalist global system, class polarization crisis, global culture approach, economic transnational practices, development historical bloc, capitalist globalization, globalizing politicians, political transnational practices, transnational capitalist class, globalizing corporations, global capitalist project, ecological unsustainability, globalizing bureaucrats, global system theory, transnational economic practices, transnational political practices, ooo dresses, global systems theory, consumerist elites, dependency reversal, socialist entrepreneurs, capitalist triumphalism, global food system, promotional culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third World, First World, World Bank, Hong Kong, Soviet Union, Latin America, United States, South Africa, New York, New Second World, United Nations, North America, South Korea, Philip Morris, Third Way, Advertising Age, New Labour, Business Week, Czech Republic, Fortune Global, General Motors, Southern Africa, Amnesty International, Central America, Ivory Coast New!
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- Lse Scarce Tracts Econ 12vols by Routledge in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Export Processing Zones (Policy & Research Series) by Industry and Energy Department in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sociology of the Global System by Professor Leslie Sklair in Back Cover
- The Industrialization of Less Developed Countries by Colin H. Kirkpatrick in Back Matter
- From Modernization to Globalization: Perspectives on Development and Social Change (Blackwell Readers in Sociology) by J. Timmons Roberts in Back Matter
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- The Globalization Reader by Frank J. Lechner in Front Matter, and page 70
- Direct Action and Democracy Today by April Carter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sociology: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) by John Scott in Front Matter, and page 79
- The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change by J. Timmons Roberts on page 158
- Critical Theories, IR and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement': The Politics of Global Resistance (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy) by Catherine Eschle in Back Matter
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