Stories of Globalization: Transnational Corporations, Resistance, and the State

by Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas H. Constance

The economic and social outcomes of mid-twentieth-century Fordist capitalism were characterized by a decrease in the significance of distance and a shift in the dynamic of time. This "time-space compression" is one of the defining components of contemporary globalization. In their latest collaboration, Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas Constance provide an in-depth analysis of the origins and nature of globalization using the context of the agro-food...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271033894
• ISBN13: 9780271033891
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"