Globalization: Capitalism and Its Alternatives

Capitalist globalization has been instrumental in globalizing civil and political rights all over the world as a condition of 'free' markets and trade, but capitalist globalizers have no answer to the rapidly accelerating demands for universal economics and social rights, expressed in the enormous growth of local, national, multinational and global NGOs and anti-globalization movements.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 negative aspects of capitalist globalization are explored in a new critique which argues that there are two main crises of capitalist globalization: the class polarization crisis and the crisis of ecological unsustainability. The book also presents a new analysis of a long-term alternative to global capitalism: the globalization of human rights.

Title - Globalization: Capitalism and Its Alternatives

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Author - Leslie Sklair

ISBN 13 - 9780199247448

Imprint - Oxford University Press

Publisher - Oxford University Press

Date Published - 11/04/2002

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No. of pages - 390

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 172 x 245 x 21mm

Weight - 724 g

Languages - English