People's World

John Madeley has been a writer and broadcaster specializing in Third World development and environmental issues for almost thirty years. He is the author of a number of books on development questions, including Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations on the World's Poor (Zed), Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade (Zed) and Food for All: The Need for a New Agriculture (Zed).

Praise for Big Business, Poor Peoples (1999): 'Readable and persuasive?. A timely and cogent examination of transnational corporations, the engines that drive globalization.' New Internationalist 'An excellent book' African Farming 'A readable account of the increasing power of big businesses' Christian Aid News 'A sober and factual survey of a world economy dominated by big transnational corporations.' Socialist Review 'A grim account of exploitation and neglect.' Church Times 'A useful introductory critique of corporate involvement in developing countries... [which] leaves readers knowing they have a lot of work ahead.' Multinational Monitor 'John Madeley produces the evidence which show that TNCs are not working to benefit developing countries? A very easy, but disturbing, read.' International Agricultural Development 'Readers will be spurred to use their voices as consumers, investors and voters to resist the monopoly power of the new 'global apartheid', a system which sucks the labour out of people and discards the skins.' Canon Christopher Hall, Coordinator for One World in The Door Praise for Hungry for Trade (2000): 'Brings much useful information together [and] asks many fundamental questions.' African Book Centre Praise for Food For All (2002): 'John Madeley's demolition job on the structure of international trade and finance, and the work of WTO, is convincing. This book needs to be widely read.' Church Times 'Absorbing reading for anyone concerned about the risks of hi-tech farming methods.' Appropriate Technology

• Part 1: Globalization Understood - and the Alternatives1. What Is There to Worry About?2. Globalization - What Does It Really Mean?3. Globalization: What's Wrong With It?4. Alternatives to Globalization - Viewpoints from the South5. Alternatives to Globalization - Viewpoints from the North6. Values on the Move7. Tackling Corporate Domination8. Tackling Trade Domination9. Tackling Debt10. Alternative strategies11. Conclusion: The Urgency of AlternativesAnnex: Sources on Alternative Ideas and Campaigning Social MovementsNotesIndex