Globalization : the human consequences
Zygmunt Bauman (Author)
'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface manifestations. Unpacking the social roots and social consequences of globalizing processes, this book disperses some of the mist that surrounds the term. Alongside the emerging planetary dimensions of business, finance, trade and information flow, a 'localizing', space-fixing process is set in motion. What appears as globalization for some, means localization for many others; signaling new freedom for some, globalizing processes appear as uninvited
Print Book, English, 2017
Polity Press, Cambridge, 2017