Stories of globalization : transnational corporations, resistance, and the state / Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas H. Constance.

By:

Bonanno, Alessandro

Contributor(s):

Constance, Douglas

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)Publication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 321 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780271050911
0271050918
0271050187
9780271050188

Other title:

Transnational corporations, resistance, and the state

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stories of globalization.DDC classification:

338.8/8 22

LOC classification:

HD2755.5 .B656 2008eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: "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 affected by mounting opposition and internal contradictions"--Provided by publisher

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-305) and index.

"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 affected by mounting opposition and internal contradictions"--Provided by publisher