This book highlights the increasing need for people who will be working in professions such as teaching, health, engineering and business management to have the skills for living and working in a global society. Globalisation and the challenges resulting from recent political events in Europe...

Introduction : Filipina migrants and the force of domesticity -- Gender ideologies in the Philippines -- Patriarchy and neoliberalism in the globalization of care -- Gender and communication in transnational migrant families -- The place and placelessness of migrant Filipina domestic workers --...

Introduction to global social change / Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore J. Babones -- Conducting global social research / Salvatore J. Babones -- What is globalization? -- Global social change in the long run / Thomas D. Hall, Christopher K. Chase-Dunn -- Competing conceptions of globalization...