There is an alternative subsistence and worldwide resistance to corporate globalization

• Autor: Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen; Nicholas Faraclas; Claudia von Werlhof 1943-
• Assuntos: International business enterprises -- Social aspects; Globalization -- Social aspects; Globalization -- Economic aspects; Subsistence economy; Sustainable development -- Developing countries; GLOBALIZAÇÃO (ASPECTOS ECONÔMICOS); ECONOMIA (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS); DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL; RELAÇÕES ECONÔMICAS INTERNACIONAIS
• Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Descrição: Woman, nature and the international division of labour / Maria Mies, Ariel Salleh -- Losing faith in progress: capitalist patriarchy as an 'alchemical system' / Claudia von Werlhof -- Sustainable development: rescue operation for a dying illusion / Saral Sarkar -- Globalization and poverty / Vandana Shiva -- Melanesia, the banks and the bingos: real alternatives are everywhere (except in the consultants' briefcases) / Nicholas G. Faraclas -- The clash of knowledge systems: local diversity in the wild versus global homogeneity in the marketplace / Susan Hawthorne -- Globalized bodies in the twenty-first century: the final patriarchal takeover? / Renate Klein -- 'Women never surrendered': the Mau Mau and globalization from below in Kenya 1980-2000 / Terisa E. Turner, Leigh S. Brownhill -- War, globalization and reproduction / Silvia Federici -- Seattle: a convergence of globalization and militarization / Theresa J. Wolfwood -- Mexico: creating your own path at the grassroots / Gustavo Esteva -- Resisting 'technology' and defending subsistence in Bangladesh: Nayakrishi Andolon and the movement for a happy life / Farida Akhter -- Local lifeline: rejecting globalization - embracing localization / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- Women in the international gardens: how subsistence production leads to new forms of intercultural communication / Christa Müller -- The practice of subsistence: collective environmental action and community organic farming / Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen
  -- What really keeps our cities alive, money or subsistence? / Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen.
  
• Editor: Victoria, Australia Spinifex Press London New York Zed Books New York Distributed in the USA exclusivey by Palgrave
  
• Data de criação/publicação: 2001
  
• Formato: xv, 240 p 22 cm.
  
• Idioma: Inglês