Confronting Globalization, edited by Timothy A. Wise (of Tufts University's Global Development and Environment Institute), Hilda Salazar and Laura Carlsen, focuses on labor, agricultural, and environmental issues.
It tells globalization's untold and compelling stories: its social and environmental costs and the grassroots search for alternative paths. Indigenous coffee farmers fight for a place in the global market. Sweatshop workers demand safe working conditions and basic labor rights. Corn farmers organize to prevent the flood of imported grain from driving them off the land.
Through the stories in Confronting Globalization, which is one output of a collaborative project between researchers at Tufts and the Mexican Free Trade Action Network, the editors offer a rare grounding in how trade policies affect vulnerable communities and the environment and what those communities are doing to defend themselves and promote their own homegrown alternatives.
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