Review from previous edition 'Highly illuminating...Sklair's volume is a concise and precise treatment of a gigantic topic, the global system.'

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Thinking about the Global ; 3. From Development to Globalization ; 4. Transnational Corporations and Capitalist Globalization ; 5. Transnational Practices: Corporations, Class, and Consumerism ; 6. Transnational Practices in the Third World ; 7. The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism ; 8. Capitalist Globalization in Communist and Postcommunist Societies ; 9. Capitalist Globalization in China ; 10. Challenges to Capitalist Globalization ; 11. From Capitalist to Socialist Globalization through the Transformation of Human Rights

Review from previous edition 'Highly illuminating...Sklair's volume is a concise and precise treatment of a gigantic topic, the global system.'

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Thinking about the Global ; 3. From Development to Globalization ; 4. Transnational Corporations and Capitalist Globalization ; 5. Transnational Practices: Corporations, Class, and Consumerism ; 6. Transnational Practices in the Third World ; 7. The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism ; 8. Capitalist Globalization in Communist and Postcommunist Societies ; 9. Capitalist Globalization in China ; 10. Challenges to Capitalist Globalization ; 11. From Capitalist to Socialist Globalization through the Transformation of Human Rights

Review from previous edition 'Highly illuminating...Sklair's volume is a concise and precise treatment of a gigantic topic, the global system.'

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Thinking about the Global ; 3. From Development to Globalization ; 4. Transnational Corporations and Capitalist Globalization ; 5. Transnational Practices: Corporations, Class, and Consumerism ; 6. Transnational Practices in the Third World ; 7. The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism ; 8. Capitalist Globalization in Communist and Postcommunist Societies ; 9. Capitalist Globalization in China ; 10. Challenges to Capitalist Globalization ; 11. From Capitalist to Socialist Globalization through the Transformation of Human Rights