Globalization

Globalization: the human consequences

by Bauman, Zygmunt

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As noted sociologist Zygmunt Bauman shows in this detailed history of globalization, while human affairs now take place on a global scale, we are not able to direct events; we can only watch as boundaries, institutions, and loyalties shift in rapid and unpredictable ways. Who benefits from the new globalization? Are people in need assisted more quickly and efficiently? Or are the poor worse off than ever before? In a chilling analysis, Bauman argues that globalization divides as much as it uni…

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  • Full title :Globalization : the human consequences / Zygmunt Bauman.

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As noted sociologist Zygmunt Bauman shows in this detailed history of globalization, while human affairs now take place on a global scale, we are not able to direct events; we can only watch as boundaries, institutions, and loyalties shift in rapid and unpredictable ways. Who benefits from the new globalization? Are people in need assisted more quickly and efficiently? Or are the poor worse off than ever before?

In a chilling analysis, Bauman argues that globalization divides as much as it unites, creating an ever-widening gulf between the haves and the have nots. Rather than the hybrid culture we had hoped for, globalization is creating a more homogenous world.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1998.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Polity Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1998.

The Physical Object

  • Description:vi, 136 pages ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0745620124, 9780745620121, 0745620132, 9780745620138
  • oclc:ocm39882628
  • LC Classification:HM73
  • Dewey Decimal:304.23

Subjects

Culturele aspecten Freedom of movement Globalization -- Social aspects International economic relations Internationalisatie internationalism Internationalisme Libre circulation des personnes Mobilité sociale Mondialisation Postmodernism -- Social aspects Postmodernisme -- Aspect social Relations économiques internationales Social mobility Sociale aspecten

Writers

Bauman, Zygmunt

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