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Stories of globalization : transnational corporations, resistance, and the state /

"Analyses transnational corporations, groups who resist them, and the primary context within which the relationship between transnational corporations and their opponents unfold: the state. Argues that globalization is a contested terrain in which the power of transnational corporations is affe...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Bonanno, Alessandro
Autres auteurs: Constance, Douglas
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.
Collection:Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Globalization of the economy and society : salient interpretations
  • Environmentalism, industry restructuring, and global regulation : the tuna-dolphin controversy
  • Transnational corporations and their power over the state : the case of Ferruzzi
  • corporate power and the free global market : the Lysine Price-fixing case of ADM
  • Globalization and resistance from below : the case of Industrial Chicken Production in southeast Texas
  • TNCS' colonization of the local and resistance : mega hog farms in the Texas panhndle
  • Old and new social movements in the global era : the case of Maxxam and the Headwaters Forest Redwoods
  • NGOs under globalization : the marine stewardship council
  • Challenging the globalization project : the collapse of the multilateral agreement on investment.