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Critiques of Globalization 

Linda Alcoff & Eduardo Mendieta, eds., THINKING FROM THE UNDERSIDE OF HISTORY, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Samir Amin, EMPIRE OF CHAOS, Monthly Review Press, 1992.

Samir Amin, CAPITALISM IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION: THEMANAGEMENT OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY, Zed Press, 1997.

Richard P. Applebaum & William I. Robinson, eds. CRITICAL GLOBALIZATION STUDIES , Routledge, 2005.

Sarah Anderson & John Cavanagh, FIELD GUIDE TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, Institute for Policy Studies, 2005 rev. ed.

Benjamin Barber, JIHAD vs. McWORLD: HOW GLOBALIZATION & TRIBALISM ARE RESHAPING THE WORLD, Ballantine, 1995.

Jose Bell Lara, GLOBALIZATION & THE CUBAN REVOLUTION, Havana: Editorial Jose Marti, 2002.

Alex Callinicos, AN ANTI-CAPITALIST MANIFESTO, Polity Press, 2003.

Graciela Chailloux Laffita, Rosa Lopez Oceguera, Silvio Baro Herrera, GLOBALIZATION & CUBA-U.S.CONFLICT, Havana: Editorial Jose Marti, 1999.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, GLOBAL FORMATION: STRUCTURES OF THE WORLD-ECONOMY, Basil Blackwell, 1989.

Noam Chomsky, YEAR 501: THE CONQUEST CONTINUES, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, St. Paul , Minnesota , 1993

Noam Chomsky, PROFIT OVER PEOPLE: NEOLIBERALISM & GLOBAL ORDER, Seven Stories Press, 1999 [A good one for beginners.  Short and readable.]

Pablo DeGreiff & Ciaran Cronin, eds., GLOBAL JUSTICE & TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS, MIT Press, 2002

Enrique Dussel, THE INVENTION OF THE AMERICAS: ECLIPSE OF “THE OTHER” & THE MYTH OF MODERNITY, Continuum, 1995

Enrique Dussel , THE UNDERSIDE OF MODERNITY: APEL, RICOEUR, RORTY, TAYLOR & THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIBERATION, Humanities Press, 1886

Enrique Dussel Peters, POLARIZING MEXICO: THE IMPACT OF LIBERALIZATION STRATEGY, Lynne Reinner, 2000

Thomas Frank, ONE MARKET UNDER GOD: EXTREME CAPITALISM, MARKET POPULISM, & THE END OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, Doubleday, 2000

Eduardo Galeano, UPSIDE DOWN: A PRIMER FOR THE LOOKING-GLASS WORLD, Henry Holt, 1998

Duncan Green, SILENT REVOLUTION: THE RISE OF MARKET ECONOMICS IN LATIN AMERICA, Monthly Review Press, 1995. [A comprehensive analysis of neo-liberal globalization in Latin America.]

William Greider, ONE WORLD, READY OR NOT: THE MANIC LOGIC OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM, Simon & Schuster, 1997

Noreena Hertz, THE SILENT TAKEOVER: GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY, Free Press, 2002

Osvaldo Martinez, NEO-LIBERALISM IN CRISIS, Havana: Editorial Jose Marti, 1999

John McMurtry, THE CANCER STAGE OF CAPITALISM, Pluto Press, 1999. [A compelling critique of capitalist globalization that reveals its self-destructiveness.]

Geraldo Otero, ed., MEXICO IN TRANSITION: NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION, STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY, Zed Press

John Perkins, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004.

William I. Robinson, PROMOTING POLYARCHY: GLOBALIZATION, US INTERVENTION AND HEGEMONY, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

William I. Robinson, TRANSNATIONAL CONFLICTS: CENTRAL AMERICA, SOCIAL CHANGE AND GLOBALIZATION, Verso Press, 2003

William I. Robinson, A THEORY OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM: PRODUCTION, CLASS, AND STATE IN A TRANSNATIONAL WORLD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. [This is the most sophisticated discussion of globalization I know of.  A 'must read', but not for beginners.]

Ellen Israel Rosen, MAKING SWEATSHOPS: GLOBALIZATION OF THE U. S. APPAREL INDUSTRY, University of California Press, 2002

Robert Ross & Kent Trachte, GLOBAL CAPITALISM: THE NEW LEVIATHAN, State Univ. of New York Press, 1990

Mario Saenz, ed., LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBALIZATION: ETHICS, POLITICS & ALTERNATIVE VISIONS, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002

Ian Shapiro, ed., GLOBAL JUSTICE, NOMOS #41, New York Univ. Press, 1999

Peter Singer, ONE WORLD: THE ETHICS OF GLOBALIZATION, Yale Univ. Press, 2002

Joseph Stiglitz, GLOBALIZATION & ITS DISCONTENTS, W.W. Norton, 2002

William Tabb, UNEQUAL PARTNERS: A PRIMER ON GLOBALIZATION, The New Press, 2002

William Tabb, THE AMORAL ELEPHANT: GLOBALIZATION & THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE 21 st CENTURY, Monthly Review Press, 2001. [A good one for beginners.  Short and readable.]

William Tabb, EXOCOMIC GOVERNANCE IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION, Columbia University Press, 2004.

Henry Veltmeyer & James Petras, GLOBALIZATION UNMASKED: IMPERIALISM IN THE 21 st CENTURY, Zed Press, 2001.

Henry Veltmeyer & James Petras, A SYSTEM IN CRISIS: THE DYNAMICS OF FREE-MARKET CAPITALISM, Zed, 2004.

Immanuel Wallerstein, WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS: AN INTRODUCTION, Duke University Press, 2004.

Ellen Meiksins Wood, EMPIRE OF CAPITAL, Verso, 2002

 

Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization:

Robin Hahnel, ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY: FROM COMPETITION TO COOPERATION, Institute for Policy Studies,

Fidel Castro, THE WORLD ECONOMIC & SOCIAL CRISIS: ITS IMPACT ON THE UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES, ITS SOMBER PROSPECTS, & THE NEED TO STRUGGLE IF WE ARE TO SURVIVE, Report to 7 th Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, 1983.

John Cavanagh, et. al., ALTERNATIVES TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, Berrett-Koehler, 2002. John Cavanagh, et. al.,  ALTERNATIVES TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE,  Berrett-Koehler, 2002  [A compilation of articles from a variety of authors that came out of a several year long series of discussions.]

Carl Davidson and Jerry Harris, CYBER RADICALISM: A NEW LEFT FOR A GLOBAL AGE, Changemaker Publications, 2005.

Davis Held, GLOBALIZATION: THE DANGERS AND THE ANSWERS,

David Held, GLOBAL COVENANT: THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE TO THE WASHINGTON CONSENSUS,

John Holloway, CHANGING THE WORLD WITHOUT TAKING POWER, Pluto Press, 2002.

George Monbiot, THE AGE OF CONSENT: A MANIFESTO FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER, Harper Collins, 2003

George Monbiot, MANIFESTO FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER, New Press, 2006.

Mike Prokosch & Laura Raymond, eds., THE GLOBAL ACTIVIST’S MANUAL: LOCAL WAYS TO CHANGE THE WORLD, Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002

Henry Veltmeyer, TRANSCENDING NEO-LIBERALISM: COMMUNITY-BASED DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA, Kumarian Press, 2001.

 

Webpage Links (Migration Study)

Communities Without Borders, by David Bacon, published in The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051024/bacon

David Bacon, “How U.S. Corporations Won the Debate Over Immigration,” Americas Program ( Silver City , NM : Interhemispheric Resource Center , November 16, 2004 ).
http://www.americaspolicy.org/articles/2004/0411corpimm.html

Jonathan Fox and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, "Building Civil Society Among Indigenous Migrants," Americas Program ( Silver City , NM : Interhemispheric Resource Center , October 12, 2004 )
http://www.americaspolicy.org/reports/2004/0410migrants.html

Analysis of Immigration Reform Proposals, by Deborah White,Your Guide to Liberal Politics: U.S.
http://usliberals.about.com/od/immigration/i/BushImmiReform_p.htm

Illegal Immigration Explained - Profits & Poverty, Social Security & Starvation, From Deborah White, Your Guide to Liberal Politics: U.S., Oct 17 2005,
http://usliberals.about.com/od/immigration/a/IllegalImmi_p.htm

Center for Immigration Studies: Poverty and Income http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/mexico/poverty.html

IMMIGRATION INFORMATION SOURCE website http://www.migrationinformation.org

Special Mexico-US Migration issue http://www.migrationinformation.org/issue_mar04.cfm

includes:

From Traitors to Heroes: 100 Years of Mexican Migration Policies, By Jorge Durand, University of Guadalajara, March 1, 2004
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=203

Mexican Immigration to the US: The Latest Estimates, by Jeffrey Passel, March 1, 2004
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=208

Mexican Immigrants in the US Labor Force, by Elizabeth Grieco and Brian Ray, Migration Policy Institute
http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=206

Mexico: A Crucial Crossroads, by Francisco Alba, El Colegio de México,
July 2002, updated March 2004
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=211

Latino Remittances Swell Despite US Economic Slump, by Roberto Suro, Pew Hispanic Center, February 1, 2003
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/print.cfm?ID=89