Screen LibraryStories of globalization：transnational corporations, resistance, and the state
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Pennsylvania State University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | University Park, Pa. |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Rural studies series] |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 321 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780271033884 (cloth : alk. paper) 0271033886 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F276 |
| CLC: | F276.7 |
| Call Number: | F276.7/B697 |
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Series statement from jacket. Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-305) and index. Globalization of the economy and society : salient interpretations -- Environmentalism, industry restructuring, and global regulation : the tuna-dolphin controversy -- Transnational corporations and their power over the state : the case of Ferruzzi -- corporate power and the free global market : the Lysine Price-fixing case of ADM -- Globalization and resistance from below : the case of Industrial Chicken Production in southeast Texas -- TNCS' colonization of the local and resistance : mega hog farms in the Texas panhndle -- Old and new social movements in the global era : the case of Maxxam "Analyses transnational corporations, groups who resist them, and the primary context within which the relationship between transnational corporations and their opponents unfold: the state. Argues that globalization is a contested terrain in which the power of transnational corporations is affected by mounting opposition and internal contradictions"--Provided by publisher. |