Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform

Teeple (sociology and anthropology, Simon Fraser U.) sees the welfare state and social democracy as a period of transition from the era of national capital and nation states to one of internationalized capital and supra-national organizations. He examines the expected increases in social and personal wealth and well being that allowed the rise of welfare states, and the economic retrenchment and political reaction that are dismantling them. He also warns of the consequences for working people worldwide, the decline of political legitimacy, and the exercise of unmitigated corporate power. Paper edition (unseen), $15.00. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Politics & Social Sciences

Teeple, Gary

Social Sciences

Humanities Pr

Capitalism and the national question in Canada

University of Toronto Press

Marx's Critique of Politics 1842-1847

Politics & Government

Univ of Toronto Pr

Garamond Pr

This collection of original articles offers an up-to-date, critical review of the global political economy today, covering such topics as international finance, corporate governance, military power, international labour standards, global health, human rights, and more. Assembling a group of top scholars, the editors are able to provide a wide-ranging yet coherent survey of contemporary international institutions and how they are governed. In the process, they offer a useful basis for understanding the financial crisis of 2008.Relations of Global Power is the only book available that examines the many different dimensions of the international regulatory structure across a range of issues, placing them all within the context of neoliberal globalization. It will be of interest to scholars of political science, sociology, policy studies, public administration, and global studies, and will also appeal to activists and members of alter-globalization movements.

Relations of Global Power: Neoliberal Order and Disorder

Business & Money

McBride, Stephen

Economics

University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division

This collection of original articles offers an up-to-date, critical review of the global political economy today, covering such topics as international finance, corporate governance, military power, international labour standards, global health, human rights, and more. Assembling a group of top scholars, the editors are able to provide a wide-ranging yet coherent survey of contemporary international institutions and how they are governed. In the process, they offer a useful basis for understanding the financial crisis of 2008.
 Relations of Global Power is the only book available that examines the many different dimensions of the international regulatory structure across a range of issues, placing them all within the context of neoliberal globalization. It will be of interest to scholars of political science, sociology, policy studies, public administration, and global studies, and will also appeal to activists and members of alter-globalization movements.

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The author traces Marx's intellectual development through a careful analysis of the texts. He demonstrates an unmistakable continuity throughout the period, arguing that Marx consciously worked out his critique of politics from a well-defined starting point to a logical conclusion.

Marx's Critique of Politics 1842-1847 (Heritage)

Published Under the Garamond Imprint Available in the US through Prometheus Books. Demands for "human rights" and resistance to their violation are rarely out of the news. Yet their definition is far from a settled matter, their legal status is quite varied, their uses and defence widely inconsistent between jurisdictions, and respect for them is blatantly limited. If it is held that all humans are abstractly equal in the possession of these rights, there is little agreement on anything else about them. The "human rights" of the United Nations? Charter and Universal Declaration contain a host of inconsistencies and a mixture of truths and untruths that contradict the assumptions of universality and timelessness. Gary Teeple makes the case that "human rights" are peculiar to an historically given mode of production; they comprise the public declaration of the principles of the prevailing property relations. In that they are proclaimed absolute and universal is no different than similar declarations and beliefs about the nature of principles arising in different social formations. Although the tenets underlying "human rights" are distinct from pre-capitalist rights in several ways, there is one very significant distinguishing characteristic: implicit within them are goals that are qualitatively different from any relations yet realized in existing social formations.

The Riddle of Human Rights

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Since its first publication in 1995, this cogently argued and impressively documented work has been in use in every university in Canada, as well as many in the United States and overseas. In this revised and updated edition, Gary Teeple continues his examination of the undermining of the conditions of social democracy by clarifying the definition of globalization and further exploring its historical background. Teeple discusses the meaning and implication of "knowledge-based" means of production and analyzes postmodernism as a consequence of the transformations brought on by this new technology. In addition, he critically examines many contemporary skeptics of the idea of globalization and considers the potential for progressive social change given the continued expansion of globalized capital.This book is essential reading for an understanding of the dynamics behind our rapidly changing world.

Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform: Into the Twenty-First Century

Humanity Books

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