{"product_id":"after-globalization-crisis-and-disintegration-paperback","title":"After Globalization: Crisis and Disintegration - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert K. Schaeffer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1980s, U.S. officials adopted tax and monetary policies that channeled huge new resources into Wall Street, which fueled a stock market boom. To increase profits and payouts to investors as stock prices soared, corporate managers consolidated businesses, outsourced manufacturing to low-wage countries, and adopted new technologies to increase productivity. Government officials then facilitated mergers and negotiated free trade agreements to speed the process of globalization. Wall Street became an engine of capital accumulation and a force for global change.\u003cbr\u003eThese developments resulted in massive job losses and stagnant wages for most Americans. Meanwhile, tax cuts and the stock market boom created vast new wealth for the rich, and the top 10 percent seized 50 percent of all income in the United States. The result was growing economic inequality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring the decades that followed, globalization triggered regional economic crises, toppled governments, transformed societies, galvanized economic development in China, and created new forms of wealth and inequality around the world. Then in 2008, a financial crisis rooted in Wall Street triggered the Great Recession, wrecked the legitimacy of globalization as a development strategy, and unleashed populist or \"restrictionist\" social movements and political parties that challenged globalization and attacked its economic and political foundations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book examines the origins of globalization in the 1980s, the developments that triggered the Great Recession, and the political and economic forces that contributed to the disintegration of globalization as a force for change in the modern world. \u003ci\u003eAfter Globalization \u003c\/i\u003eexplains what happened--and what comes next. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert K. Schaeffer\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Kansas State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWarpaths: The Politics of Partition \u003c\/i\u003e(1990); \u003ci\u003eWar in the World- System \u003c\/i\u003e(1990); \u003ci\u003ePower to the People: Democratization Around the World \u003c\/i\u003e(1997); \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change \u003c\/i\u003e(1997; 2001; 2005; 2009; 2016); \u003ci\u003eSevered States: Dilemmas of Democracy in a Divided World \u003c\/i\u003e(1999); \u003ci\u003eRed Inc.: Dictatorship and the Development of Capitalism in China, 1949 to the Present \u003c\/i\u003e(2012); \u003ci\u003eSocial Movements and Global Social Change: The Rising Tide \u003c\/i\u003e(2014); and with Torry Dickinson, \u003ci\u003eFast Forward: Work, Gender and Protest in a Changing World \u003c\/i\u003e(2001); and \u003ci\u003eTransformations: Feminist Pathways to Global Change \u003c\/i\u003e(2008). \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 326\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 21, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47385754370297,"sku":"9781032056098","price":74.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dGd3WUcxdURzd21hZ0I1VHhrR0Fndz09.webp?v=1770182010","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/after-globalization-crisis-and-disintegration-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}