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Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Defining and Exploring Globalization
Exploration One: How Wide Is Your Global View?
Exploration Two: Picturing the Globe
What Does the Term Globalization Mean?
Three Competing Definitions of Globalization
Promoting and Protesting Globalization
How Should We Make Decisions and Act in Response to Globalization?
Navigating the Controversies
Chapter 2: Consumerism, Free Trade, and Sweatshops
Context for a Network of Issues
Stakes and Stakeholders
Student Voice: Experiencing Consumerism and Sweatshops (Tiffany Anderson)
International Voices:
Comments from a Factory Worker Producing Clothing for Wal-Mart
Global Hot Spot: China
READINGS
Khalil Bendib, AXT Workers' Rights (cartoon)
Nick Gillespie, Poor Man's Hero [Interview with Johan Norberg]
Global Exchange, Twelve Reasons to Oppose the World Trade Organization
Garment Factory in Saipan (photograph)
George F. Will, Fight over Free Trade Worth Having and Losing
Mike Shanahan, Appetite for Destruction
Ed Finn, Harnessing Our Power as Consumers: Cost of Boycotting Sweatshop Goods Offset by the Benefits
Anita Roddick, Comment and Analysis: The Price of Dignity: Business Is Imposing Virtual Slavery in the Developing World---and Only We, the Consumers, Can Stop It
Chip Bok, Help Is on the Way, Dude (cartoon)
Jay Nordlinger,The New Colossus: Wal-Mart Is America's Store, and the World's, and Its Enemies Are Sadly Behind
Froma Harrop,Calculating the Real Cost of `Everyday Low Prices'
Barbara Ehrenreich, Wal-Martian Invasion
Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Writing Assignments
Chapter 3: Trading Jobs: Outsourcing and Employment in a Global Economy
Context for a Network of Issues
Stakes and Stakeholders
Student's Voice: Experiencing Offshore Outsourcing (Nicole Neumiller)
International Voices:
Comment from an Indian Working in the Information Technology Field
Global Hot Spot: India
READINGSThomas L. Friedman, 30 Little Turtles
Paritosh Bansal Re: '30 Little Turtles'
Missoulian .com News Line, Some Job Angst Flies Against Experience
Larry Wright, Jobs Terror Alert (cartoon)
Daniel W. Drezner, The Outsourcing Bogeyman
Sylvia Allegretto and Andy Stettner, Educated, Experienced, and Out of Work: Long-Term Joblessness Continues to Plague the Unemployed
February 2004 Wired (magazine cover)
Bruce Raynor, Protect Workers' Rights
Ellen Goodman, The Do-It-Yourself Economy
Lisa Vaas, Interview with New Jersey State Senator Shirley Turner
Tom Salonek, Don't Ban Outsourcing: Create Jobs
Henry Payne, Supermart Tennis Shoes (cartoon)
Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Writing Assignments
Chapter 4: Crossing Borders: Immigration
Context for a Network of Issues
Stakes and Stakeholders
Student's Voice: Experiencing Immigration Issues (Esperanza Borboa)
International Voices:
Residents of a Small Town in Mexico Responding to Immigration
Global Hot Spot: Mexico
READINGS
Jagdish Bhagwati, Borders Beyond Control
Kofi Annan, Lecture on International Flows of Humanity
Clay Bennett, Offer May Vary (cartoon)
Ruben Navarrette, Jr. America's Mixed Messages to Foreigners at the Gate
Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Relations, Guide for the Mexican Migrant (excerpt)
Linda Chavez, Guest Worker Visas
John Laughland, Immigration Is Turning Britain into a Sweatshop
Brian Fairrington, Illegal Immigrant Economy (cartoon)
Don Melvin, When Guest Workers Opt Not To Go Home; German Example Shows Some Migrant Policies Lead to Isolation, Poverty
Anti-Immigration Bumper Stickers
Samuel P. Huntington, The Special Case of Mexican Immigration
MALDEF and LULAC Rebuke Samuel Huntington's Theories on Latino Immigrants and Call on America to Reaffirm Its Commitment to Equal Opportunity and Democracy
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, No Room at the Inn
Faisal Mahmood, Pakistanis Protesting France's Ban on the Hijab
Francis Fukuyama, Our Foreign Legions
Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Writing Assignments
Chapter 5: Cultural Rights: Global Tensions over Media, Technology, Music, Film, and Food
Context for a Network of Issues
Stakes and Stakeholders
Student's Voice: Experiencing Intercultural Exchange (Owen Johnson)
International Voices:
Yeunhwa Jang from Korea Comments on American Fast Food
Global Hot Spot: The Middle East
READINGSGeorge Packer, When Here Sees There
The Economist, Behind the Digital Divide
Cover Image from the Economist
Philippe Legrain, In Defense of Globalization: Why Cultural Exchange Is Still an Overwhelming Force for Good Globalization
Benjamin Barber, Brave New McWorld: Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures
Jane Poynter, Learning from One Another
Benjamin Compaine, Global Media
Henry Payne, Great Mall of China (political cartoon)
Henry Jenkins, Culture Goes Global
John Harris, The Bland Play On
Rajal Pitroda, Why Is Bollywood Obsessed with Producing `Crossover Films'?
David Adesnik, Marvel Comics and Manifest Destiny
Jeevan J. Kang, Image from Spider-ManIndia
Eric Schlosser, Special Report on Slow Food
James L. Watson, China's Big Mac Attack
William Lalicker, Photos of Cultural Contact in China: Fast Food and Advertising
Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Writing Assignments
Chapter 6: Human Rights: Trafficking of Women and Children and Forced Child Labor
Context for a Network of Issues
Stakes and Stakeholders
Student's Voice: Experiencing Human Rights Problems (Spencer Jones)
International Voices:
Testimony of a Child Domestic Worker in Zambia
Testimony of a Trafficked Woman in the Sex Trade
Global Hot Spot: The Balkans and Eastern Europe
READINGS
David A. Feingold, Human Trafficking
Global Exchange, Fair Trade Chocolate and Cocoa: The Sweet Solution to Abusive Child Labor and Poverty
Mike Lester, Chinese Children and Harry Potter (political cartoon)
Nicholas D. Kristof, Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are
Children's Forum, Special Session of Children-UNICEF, A World Fit for Us
Luc Novovitch, Chadian Eight-Year Old Soldier Smoking (photo)
Joanna Busza, Sarah Castle, and Aisse Diarra, Trafficking and Health
The Independent, The Horrors of the International Sex Trade
International Organization for Migration, For Sale (poster)
Kate Butcher, Confusion between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
Human Rights Watch, LeShawn R. Jefferson, Letter to Colin Powell on the Trafficking in Persons Report 2003
John R. Miller, Slavery in 2004
Richard Poulin, Globalization and the Sex Trade: Trafficking and the Commodification of Women and Children
HumanTrafficting.com, Law Enforcement Poster on Sex Trafficking
Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Writing AssignmentsChapter 7:Environmental Resources and Rights: Global Conflicts over Water and Climate Change
Context for a Network of Issues
Stakes and Stakeholders
Student's Voice: Experiencing Water Scarcity (Malia Burns-Rozycki)
International Voices:
Comments from Water Authorities in Swaziland
Global Hot Spot: Africa
READINGS
Joshua Ortega, Water Wars: Bottling Up the World's Supply of H2O
Frederik Segerfeldt, Private Water Saves Lives
Jeff Fleischer, Blue Gold: An Interview with Maude Barlow
Robert L. Ayers, Technology and Water: Looking for the Workaround
Council of Canadians' Blue Planet Project, Water Is a Human Right
Lester R. Brown, Learning from China: Why the Western Economic Model Will not Work for the World
Wangari Muta Maathai, Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004
United Nations Environment Programme, Health and Environment
Andrew Simms, Why We Owe So Much to Victims of Disaster
Patrick J. Michaels, Himalayan Snow Job
John Morris, Gentlemen, We Have a Dilemma (cartoon)
Bjorn Lomborg, False Prophets, Bad Economics
Ross Gelbspan, Boiling Point: Nature Doesn't Compromise on Global Climate Change; Activists Must Not Either
Bill Greenhead, Environmental Hourglass (cartoon)
Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Writing Assignments
Chapter 8: Feeding Global Populations
Context for a Network of Issues
Stakes and Stakeholders
Student's Voice: Experiencing Problems with Food Production (Kevin Uhl)
International Voice:
Excerpts from Interviews with Farmers and Activists in Northern India
Global Hot Spot: India
READINGS
Scott Canon, Why You Can't Sit Down to Eat Without Making a Statement
United Nations Environment Programme, Health and Environment (poster)
C.S. Prakash and Gregory Conko, Technology that Will Save Billions from Starvation
Peter Rosset, Transgenic Crops to Address Third World Hunger? A Critical Analysis
Syngenta, Organic Farming: Making an Informed Choice
Pedro Sanchez, The Next Green Revolution
Vandana Shiva, Gift of Food
Cam Cardrow, Ethiopia (political cartoon)
Jennifer Wilkins, Think Globally, Eat Locally
Kirsten Schwind, Going Local on a Global Scale: Rethinking Food Trade
Heifer International, What If Cows Gave Milk in Peru?
Danielle Nierenberg, Factory Farming in the Developing World
Dennis T. Avery and Tom Elam, Confinement Farming a Boon to the Third World
Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Writing Assignments
Chapter 9: Spreading Diseases in the Global Community
Context for a Network of Issues
Stakes and Stakeholders
Student's Voice: Avoiding SARS in Taiwan (Mark Merin)
International Voices:
Oprah Winfrey's Interview with Nelson Mandela
Bono's Commencement Address, University of Pennsylvania
Global Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa
READINGS
Huang Xiangyang, SARS Accelerates Transparency in Government
Ann Marie Kimball, Fighting Human Infection in an Age of Globalization
Henry I. Miller, Some Hard Truths About Bird Flu
Barack Obama and Richard Lugar, Grounding a Pandemic
Olle Johansson, International AIDS Day (Political cartoon)
Melinda Gates, AIDS and India
Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Africa's Condom Conundrum: Fighting HIV in Africa
Raymond Downing, African Perspective on AIDS Differs from West
Gayle Smith, The Global Challenge of HIV/AIDS: Regional Destabilization, State Collapse and Possible New Breeding Grounds for Terrorism
AIDS Prevention Images from Africa (posters, billboard)
Stephen Lewis, AIDS Has a Woman's Face
Jonathan Rauch, Bad Blood
Global AIDS Alliance, Accelerating Efforts to Achieve Universal Basic Education: A Critical Component of the Global AIDS Response
Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion
Writing Assignments
Glossary of Globalization Terms
Films on Global Issues
Credits