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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
READINGS
Thomas 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
READINGS
George 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 Assignments
Chapter 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
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