Matthew Sparke

Introducing Globalization (eBook, PDF)

Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses,Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informedopinions about globalization, inviting them to become participantsrather than just passive learners. * Identifies and explores the major economic, political andsocial ties that comprise contemporary global interdependency * Examines a broad sweep of topics, from the rise oftransnational corporations and global commodity chains, to globalhealth challenges and policies, to issues of worker solidarity andglobal labor markets, through to emerging forms of global mobilityby both business elites and their critics * Written by an award-winning teacher, and enhanced throughout bynumerous empirical examples, maps, tables, an extendedbibliography, glossary of key terms, and suggestions for furtherreading and student research * Supported by additional web resources - available uponpublication at www.wiley.com/go/sparke- including hot links to news reports, examples ofglobalization and other illustrative sites, and archived examplesof student projects Engage with fellow readers of Introducing Globalizationon the book's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/IntroducingGlobalization,or learn more about this topic by enrolling in the free Courseracourse Globalization and You at www.coursera.org/course/globalization

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118241103
• Artikelnr.: 38235616

Autorenporträt

Matthew Sparke is Professor of Geography and International Studies at the University of Washington, where he also serves as the Director of the undergraduate program in Global Health.