Globalization and its Terrors

It has long been realised that the poorer countries of the south have paid for the unstoppable onward rush of globalisation in the exploitation of their natural and human resources. Recent events have made it clear that there may be a price to be paid in the west as well.
In this elegant, lucidly argued account, Teresa Brennan argues that the evidence already exists that globalisation has for years been harming not just the poor of the third world but also its alleged beneficiaries in the affluent west. She shows how the speeding-up of contemporary capitalism, in which space is substituted for time, means that neither then environment nor the people who live in it are given the opportunity to regenerate and how this leads directly to pollution-induced, immune-deficient and stress-related disease. In a final chapter she suggests some alternative ways forward through a return to regionally based production and an emphasis on local economies.

Auteur

Teresa Brennan

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. Daily Life in the West 3. The War on the Atmosphere 4. The War on the Land, Sea and Other Conditions of Life 5. Health Cuts and Corporate Wealth 6. Education and the Cost of Children 7. The Third Way in History 8. The Source of Profit 9. Price, Inflation and Energy 10. The Prime Directive