Divisions and Integrations: The Expansion of Global Capitalism

CHAPTER 1
Integrations and Divisions: An Introduction    1
CHAPTER 2
Global Economic Inequality: Measurements and Trends    15
CHAPTER 3
Theories of Social Change and Globalization    35
CHAPTER 4
Colonialism, Decolonialization, and Developmentalism: A Historical Narrative    51
CHAPTER 5
Economic Nationalism, the Debt Crisis, and Neoliberalism: The Narrative Continues    67
CHAPTER 6
The Rise and Fall of Labor    81
CHAPTER 7
The Commodification of Basic Needs: Water, Food, and the Environment    99
CHAPTER 8
Cultural Globalization: The Symbolic Surplus of a Global Market    123
CHAPTER 9
The Politics of Global Violence and Terrorism    137
CHAPTER 10
Global Political Transformation and the Arab Spring    151
CHAPTER 11
Contraction or Transformation: Global Crisis and the Future of a New Global Order    165
REFERENCES    175