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Class Struggles and the Reinvention of American Capitalism in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Lippit, Victor D. - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 36 (2004) 3, pp. 336-343

American capitalism has changed dramatically in the last fifty years. During the 1950s, one of its principal characteristics was a capital-labor accord with workers in major industries receiving many benefits in exchange for ceding management broad rights. From 1970 to 2000, by contrast,...

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Rewards of (Dis)Integration

Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - In: ILR Review 68 (2015) 1, pp. 3-27

A much-debated issue regarding globalization is whether it translates into Free Association and Collective Bargaining … (FACB) rights for workers. The author uses Dreherâ€™s (2006) globalization index, which gauges globalization on economic … laws violations of FACB rights, to examine the impact of globalization on FACB rights of workers. Using panel data for 142 …

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The effect of foreign direct investment on the use and success of US sanctions

Lektzian, David; Biglaiser, Glen - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 31 (2014) 1, pp. 70-93

Although the relationship between trade and the use and success of sanctions is frequently studied in international relations, researchers have generally failed to address the importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) on sanctions despite global capital markets dwarfing the exchange of goods...

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Globalization, Child Labour and Development Policies: A Theoretical Analysis

Banerjee, Rakhi; Nag, Ranjanendra Narayan - In: Foreign Trade Review 48 (2013) 1, pp. 83-104

explore whether globalization policies, namely, agricultural trade liberalization and methods aimed at attracting foreign … of globalization are crucially dependent on factor-intensity ranking and factor specificity. Multiple cross effects that …

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Healthy Trade: The Relationship Between Open Trade and Health

Stevens, Philip; Urbach, Jasson; Wills, Gabrielle - In: Foreign Trade Review 48 (2013) 1, pp. 125-135

A recurrent theme of the academic literature and wider public discourse is that free trade is bad for health as it promotes economic inequality and insecurity, polluting the environment and making processed foods more widely available. Such views are also widely promulgated by international...

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Shifting of Pollution Loads to Informal Units in India: A Possible Escape Route for Compliance with WTO Standards

Chattopadhyay, Sudeshna; Banerjee, Sarmila - In: Foreign Trade Review 48 (2013) 1, pp. 23-44

globalization. It is shown that in the world market, India has strong revealed comparative advantage (RCA) in a number of dirty … content increased during early liberalization and globalization period, it has come down in the post-World Trade Organization …

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The global politics of development: towards a new research agenda

Payne, Anthony - In: Progress in Development Studies 1 (2001) 1, pp. 5-19

takes globalization seriously, recognizes the continuing, albeit changing, realities of states and interstate politics and …

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Dilemmas of development and the environment in a globalizing world: theory, policy and praxis

Simon, David - In: Progress in Development Studies 3 (2003) 1, pp. 5-41

globalization. Many prevailing conventional wisdoms are inadequate, and we need more nuanced and contextual approaches in addressing …

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NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world: perspectives from Ghana

Porter, Gina - In: Progress in Development Studies 3 (2003) 2, pp. 131-145

This paper is concerned with the factors that influence and constrain NGO contributions to poverty reduction in a globalizing world, focusing on their role as transmitters of grounded knowledge about poverty in very poor countries. Interviews with staff in 33 NGOs in Ghana, a country where the...

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Development challenges for a resurgent African diaspora

Davies, Rebecca - In: Progress in Development Studies 10 (2010) 2, pp. 131-144

This article seeks to explore the politics of an increasingly prominent African diaspora. It does so by locating the growing debate on diasporas and development in a broader political economy context to provide a historical understanding of how the African diaspora, and its contribution to...

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