Economic Globalisation: Social Conflicts, Labour and Environmental Issues Book

In this book a distinguished group of international contributors, from both developing and higher income countries, identify and discuss major social conflicts, labor and distributional concerns, environmental issues and impacts arising from the very rapid increase in globalization experienced since the early 1970s. Issues considered include: possible alternatives to globalization, cultural and linguistic inequalities associated with globalization, consequences of growing regionalism and economic inequality between and within nations. Poverty, international migration, biodiversity conservation, natural resource sustainability, and global trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are also discussed. A substantial introductory chapter provides a significant overview of the rate and process of economic globalization and integrates the contributions and their interconnections for the reader. Economic Globalization offers policy proposals and responses and represents divergent views and rigorous theoretical analysis. Economists, particularly those with an interest in international economics, labor, environmental and ecological economics, macroeconomics and social economics will all find this book of great interest.Read More