Globalization and its Discontents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
What is Globalization?....Pages 9-23
The Politics of Globalization and Labour Strategies....Pages 24-37
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Globalization as Discipline: The Case of Australia and International Finance....Pages 41-54
Creating the Institutions of the Global Economy? Central Bank Independence in Japan and Italy....Pages 55-68
The Right Thing: Globalization and the Policy Process — A Case Study....Pages 69-83
International Financial Institutions, International Capital Flows and Financial Liberalization in Developing Countries....Pages 84-96
Benchmarking, Global Best Practice and Production Renorming in the Australian Coal Industry: The Impact of Globalization....Pages 97-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Global Markets and State Power: Explaining the Limited Impact of International Tax Competition....Pages 113-128
The Making of the Citizen Self and Citizen Other: Canada’s Non-Immigrant Employment Authorization Programme....Pages 129-142
Globalization and Cross-Border People Movements: The Case of Recent Revisions in US Immigration Legislation....Pages 143-155
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Labour Clause Proposal: A Legal and Political Critique....Pages 156-169
A ‘Double Movement’: Implications of Globalization and Pluralization for the Canadian Welfare State....Pages 170-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Economic Turmoil in Asia: A Crisis of Globalization....Pages 187-199
Rethinking Global Strategies....Pages 200-213
Alternatives to Oppressive Globalization....Pages 214-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-237