| Description |
xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Theoretical and conceptual considerations -- 1. Globalization and change in America : overview -- Globalization defined -- Globalization : from Fordism to flexibility -- Globalization and power -- Globalization and stratification -- Global-local class inequality patterns -- Global-local connections -- Conclusion -- 2. Globalization : the context -- Strategic shifts -- Forces and conditions for globalization -- Global institutions -- Post-1945 : crisis and change -- The WTO and NAFTA -- Conclusion -- 3. The globalization debate -- Perspectives on globalization -- Conceptual issues -- Economic-political issues -- Local politics : the democratic deficit -- Cultural patterns -- Globalization and inequality -- Conclusion -- 4. The globalization debate : an assessment -- Globalization and economic change -- Globalization and political changes -- Globalization and cultural change -- Conclusion -- 5. Globalization and stratification -- Definitions and concepts -- Stratification, inequality, and globalization -- Blue- and white-collar transitions -- Conclusion -- |
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pt. 2. Dimensions of inequality -- 6. Globalization and work -- The context : Fordism to flexibility -- U.S. workers in the globalized economy -- Patterns in class inequality -- Inequality and poverty by race and ethnicity -- Working hours -- The working and the new poor -- A view from the bottom : insecurity and vulnerability -- Conclusion -- 7. Globalization and immigration -- Overview -- Global processes and immigration -- Destination and social capital networks -- Occupational location of immigrants in the United States -- Globalization, rural restructuring, and Latino migration -- Explaining patterns of immigration integration -- Immigration and political and civic engagement -- Remittances : completing the global cycle -- Conclusion -- 8. Globalization and gender -- Sex, gender, and ideology -- Engendering globalization -- Globalization and gender inequality in the United States -- Gender, race, and ethnicity -- Conclusion -- |
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pt. 3. Constructing change -- 9. Globalization : countermovements and community -- Globalization, the state, society, and markets : Karl Polanyi -- Globalization and its countermovement -- Asian sex trafficking -- Living-wage campaigns -- Immigration and empowerment in the deep South -- Building community through creating social capital -- Conclusion -- 10. Conclusion : how globalization is transforming America -- Globalization -- Globalization : diversity within homogeneity -- Globalization and the United States -- The state -- The countermovement -- Participatory change : empowerment or façade? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary. |
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Social stratification -- United States.
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Social stratification. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
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Globalization.
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Globalization. |
| Added Author |
Zentgraf, Kristine M.
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| ISBN |
0195173007 paperback |
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0195173015 cloth |
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9780195173017 cloth |
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9780195173000 paperback |
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