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Megacities
Stratmann, Bernhard - In: Journal of Developing Societies 27 (2011) 3-4, pp. 229-259
advancement of megacities will be explored in the context of the current processes of urbanization, globalization, and …
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What has Globalization to do with Wildlife Use in the Remote Amazon? Exploring the Links between Macroeconomic Changes, Markets and Community Entitlements
Espinosa, M. Cristina - In: Journal of Developing Societies 24 (2008) 4, pp. 489-521
includes protected wildlife species. Analysis suggests the strong environmental implications of neoliberal globalization at the …
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Globalization and Citizens’ Support for Global Capitalism
Machida, Satoshi - In: Journal of Developing Societies 27 (2011) 2, pp. 119-151
analytical framework, this study examines how globalization differently affects citizens’ perceptions of global capitalism in … findings that are consistent with world-systems theory. While globalization positively affects citizens’ evaluations of … global capitalism in the core, globalization undermines citizens’ support for global capitalism in the periphery. By …
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The Contest of Rival Capitalisms
Thornton, William H.; Thornton, Songok Han - In: Journal of Developing Societies 28 (2012) 1, pp. 115-128
. Globalization, in short, is shedding its liberal cloak. Post–Cold War triumphalism was premature in the funeral it staged for the … alone is enough to dispel the notion that capitalism and democracy are two sides of the same globalist coin. But Sino-globalization … global force, a radically different mode of globalization will have to be fostered. We call this the Global Third Way, but …
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Collective Indigenous Rights and Global Social Movements in the Face of Global Development
Lauderdale, Pat - In: Journal of Developing Societies 25 (2009) 3, pp. 371-391
Most traditional indigenous peoples continue to value collective rights and mutual obligations in contrast to the growing efforts of various global and national organizations to promote individual human rights and ostensible economic development projects. Under the guise of...
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Global labour governance: potential and limits of an emerging perspective
Meardi, Guglielmo; Marginson, Paul - In: Work, Employment & Society 28 (2014) 4, pp. 651-662
The article addresses the meaning and relevance of the recently emerged idea of ‘global labour governance’. Increasingly influential in policy, it has been criticized for political and theoretical reasons, including the risk of normative ideological uses. The article suggests that...
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Scaling labour
Ellem, Bradon - In: Work, Employment & Society 20 (2006) 2, pp. 369-387
In recent years the ore-rich region known as the Pilbara, in north-western Australia, has been the site of intense struggles over the regulation of labour.Two of the world's biggest resource companies have been pitted against an oftendivided local labour force, but they have not had things all...
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‘India calling to the far away towns’
Taylor, Phil; Bain, Peter - In: Work, Employment & Society 19 (2005) 2, pp. 261-282
In recent years prominent companies have migrated call centre services to India provoking much-publicized fears for the future of UK employment. This article challenges the widely-held assumption that offshoring voice services is a seamless undertaking, principally through an investigation of...
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Overseas nurses’ motivations for working in the UK
Larsen, John Aggergaard; Allan, Helen T.; Bryan, Karen; … - In: Work, Employment & Society 19 (2005) 2, pp. 349-368
conceptually combines issues of globalization with the migrants’ perspectives. Giddens’ concept ‘life politics’ is … interfacing with conditions of globalization. …
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Cashing in on Shame: How the Popular “Tradition vs. Modernity†Dualism Contributes to the “HIV/AIDS Crisis†in Africa
Lauer, Helen - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 38 (2006) 1, pp. 90-138
Orthodox descriptions and treatment of Africa's HIV/AIDS crisis are subject to robust controversy among research experts and clinicians who raise questions about the tests used to define the crisis, the statistics used to document the crisis, and the drugs marketed to curtail it. Despite this...
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