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Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying globlalization on social science degree courses
Leslie Sklair, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Review(s) 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
1: Introduction 2: Thinking about the Global 3: From Development to Globalization 4: Transnational Corporations and Capitalist Globalization 5: Transnational Practices: Corporations, Class, and Consumerism 6: Transnational Practices in the Third World 7: The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism 8: Capitalist Globalization in Communist and Postcommunist Societies 9: Capitalist Globalization in China 10: Challenges to Capitalist Globalization 11: From Capitalist to Socialist Globalization through the Transformation of Human Rights