globalization

Looks at how human activities have affected Earth's environment over the course of the twentieth century, discussing climate, global warming, deforestation, endangered species, environmental pollution, and other topics, and explores the need to establish new policies and practices for interacting with and using natural resources.

Reveals the outsourcing, corporate chicanery, legal loopholes, and immigration fraud that gives American employers forced labor and American consumers low prices on goods. Based on dangerous research, exclusive interviews, and eyewitness accounts, the author goes behind the scenes of three illegal workplaces where employees are financially or physically enslaved.

Examines how American trade policy is linked to immigration. Focuses on how NAFTA put Oaxacan corn farmers out of business forcing them to follow their jobs across the border.

Traces the evolution of international trade, from ancient Mesopotamia to today's global marketplace, exploring the influence of commerce on agriculture, technology, politics, and civilization as a whole.

A study of forced labor in the United States offers a look at the working conditions that the government and corporations ignore, decry, but ultimately need, analyzing the moral implications of the inexpensive goods to which the American consumer has become accustomed.

Provides a comprehensive survey into how globalization works and how it might be made to work better, refutes the notion that globalization is the cause of the world's problems, and presents evidence of its beneficial effects on social issues such as poverty, women's rights, and the environment.

Describes philosophical, political, and economic shifts around the world that led to what John Adams called the "real revolution" in America--changes in the American mindset--and explains how these changes brought about the explosive events that set off the Revolutionary War.

Examines the history of MP3 players, how and where they are made, and their place--and future--in the global economy, and includes a map and glossary.

Explains how globalization works on the theoretical level and in actual, observable, real world ways. Includes helpful sidebars such as "Myths and Facts about Globalization" and "Ten Great Questions about Globalization to Ask an Economist.".