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The globalization and development reader perspectives on development and global change
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Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing, 2007
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9781405132367
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The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the success of From Modernization to Globalization , published by the editors in 2000 and used around the world. It provides an up-to-date primer and key reference for students, scholars, and development practitioners wishing to get up to speed quickly on the issues surrounding social change and development in the "Third World."

Includes carefully excerpted samples from both classic and contemporary writings.
Includes a general introduction to the field, and short, insightful section introductions.


Author Notes

J. Timmons Roberts is James Martin 21st Century School Professor in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, and Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Program in Environmental Science and Policy at the College of William and Mary. His books include Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline (with Melissa Toffolon-Weiss, 2001), Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America (with Nikki Thanos, 2003), and A Climate Of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy (with Bradley Parks, 2006).

Amy Bellone Hite is Assistant Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she teaches Social Theory, Social Policy, Social Problems, Urban Sociology, and Comparative Sociology. She is coeditor of From Modernization to Globalization: Perspectives on Development and Social Change (Blackwell, 2000) with J. Timmons Roberts.


Table of Contents

About the Editors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments to Sources Editorsrsquo;
IntroductionJ. Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite
Part I Formative Approaches to Development and Social Change
Introduction
1 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and Alienated Labor (1844)Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
2 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)Max Weber
3 The Stages of Economic Growth:A Non-Communist Manifesto (1960)W. W. Rostow
4 The Change to Change: Modernization, Development, and Politics (1971); and Political Order in Changing Societies (1968)Samuel Huntington
Part II Dependency and Beyond
Introduction
5 The Development of Underdevelopment (1969)Andre Gunder Frank
6 Dependency and Development in Latin America (1972)Fernando Henrique Cardoso
7 The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis (1979)Immanuel Wallerstein
8 Rethinking Development Theory: Insights From East Asia and Latin America (1989/1994)Gary Gereffi
9 Gender and the Global Economy (1999)Valentine M. Moghadam
Part III What is Globalization? Attempts to Understand Economic Globalization
Introduction
10 The New International Division of Labor in the World Economy (1980)Folker Frouml;bel and Juuml;rgen Heinrichs and Otto Kreye
11 The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism (1989)Manuel Castells
12 Cities in a World Economy (2000)Saskia Sassen
13 Globalization: Myths and Realities (1996)Philip McMichael
14 Competing Conceptions of Globalization (1999)Leslie Sklair
15 Itrsquo;s a Flat World, After All (2005)Thomas L. Friedman
Part IV The Opportunities and Limits of Unfettered Globalization
Introduction
16 In Defense of Global Capitalism (2003)Johan Norberg
17 What Strategies are Viable for Developing Countries Today?: The World Trade Organization and the Shrinking of ldquo;Development Spacerdquo; (2003)Robert Hunter Wade
18 Globalismrsquo;s Discontents (2002)Joseph E. Stiglitz
19A The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work (1999)
19B Has Globalization Gone too Far? (1997)Dani Rodrik
20 Industrial Convergence, Globalization, and the Persistence of the North--South Divide (1999)Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver and Benjamin D. Brewer
21 The New Development--Security Terrain (2001)Mark Duffield
Part V Confronting Globalization
Introduction
22 The Antiglobalization Movement (2005)Jeffrey D. Sachs
23 Reconstructing World Order: Towards Cosmopolitan Social Democracy (2002)David Held and Anthony McGrew
24 Environmental Advocacy Networks (1997)Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink
25 What Can We Expect from Global Labor Movements?: Five Commentaries (2002)Ralph Armbruster and Bradley Nash, Jr. and Gay Seidman and Robert Ross and Richard P. Appelbaum and Jennifer Bickham-Mendez and Edna Bonacich
26 Transnational Solidarity: Womenrsquo;s Agency, Structural Adjustment, and Globalization (2002)Manisha Desai
27 Counterhegemonic Globalization: Transnational Social Movements in the Contemporary Global Political Economy (2005)Peter Evans
Index