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The issue of globalization-its promises, and more often, its shortcomings-commands worldwide attention. Recent events illuminate the dark side of globalization and underscore the urgent need to redesign its basic principles. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 are one in a series of crisis that have shaken the foundations of the global order. The rise of strong anti-globalization movements around the world, the deteriorating global economy, including Americas own economic turbulence, and an ever-growing distrust of powerful multinational corporations in the face of catastrophic mismanagement, symbolized by Enron and WorldCom, dramatize the failure of globalization. For a safe and economically secure future, Charles Derber argues in People Before Profit we must de-bunk the myths about our current form of corporate-led globalization and re-orient ourselves on a more democratic path. Popular misconceptions, what Derber terms the globalization mystique, present globalization as new, inevitable, self-propelling, and win-win for rich and poor countries alike. By challenging each of these beliefs, Derber reveals a dynamic system that is constantly being invented and re-invented-and can be again. Globalization does not have to be a race to the bottom where the poverty gap grows ever wider and half the world lives on less than two dollars a day. In fact, Derbers hopeful and detailed vision of reform, including practical suggestions for every concerned citizen, shows that globalization has the potential to be an authentic agent of democracy, social justice, and economic stability. The challenges are great; the new globalization will require deep and difficult changes, as well as a new politics that shifts power away from the elite. But the seeds have already been planted and the new globalization is beginning to emerge. In a moment rich with opportunity, People Before Profit is an essential contribution to the most important debate of our times, written in clear, straight-forward prose for everyone seeking a better world. Read more...
Abstract: The issue of globalization-its promises, and more often, its shortcomings-commands worldwide attention. Recent events illuminate the dark side of globalization and underscore the urgent need to redesign its basic principles. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 are one in a series of crisis that have shaken the foundations of the global order. The rise of strong anti-globalization movements around the world, the deteriorating global economy, including Americas own economic turbulence, and an ever-growing distrust of powerful multinational corporations in the face of catastrophic mismanagement, symbolized by Enron and WorldCom, dramatize the failure of globalization. For a safe and economically secure future, Charles Derber argues in People Before Profit we must de-bunk the myths about our current form of corporate-led globalization and re-orient ourselves on a more democratic path. Popular misconceptions, what Derber terms the globalization mystique, present globalization as new, inevitable, self-propelling, and win-win for rich and poor countries alike. By challenging each of these beliefs, Derber reveals a dynamic system that is constantly being invented and re-invented-and can be again. Globalization does not have to be a race to the bottom where the poverty gap grows ever wider and half the world lives on less than two dollars a day. In fact, Derbers hopeful and detailed vision of reform, including practical suggestions for every concerned citizen, shows that globalization has the potential to be an authentic agent of democracy, social justice, and economic stability. The challenges are great; the new globalization will require deep and difficult changes, as well as a new politics that shifts power away from the elite. But the seeds have already been planted and the new globalization is beginning to emerge. In a moment rich with opportunity, People Before Profit is an essential contribution to the most important debate of our times, written in clear, straight-forward prose for everyone seeking a better world
Abstract: The issue of globalization-its promises, and more often, its shortcomings-commands worldwide attention. Recent events illuminate the dark side of globalization and underscore the urgent need to redesign its basic principles. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 are one in a series of crisis that have shaken the foundations of the global order. The rise of strong anti-globalization movements around the world, the deteriorating global economy, including Americas own economic turbulence, and an ever-growing distrust of powerful multinational corporations in the face of catastrophic mismanagement, symbolized by Enron and WorldCom, dramatize the failure of globalization. For a safe and economically secure future, Charles Derber argues in People Before Profit we must de-bunk the myths about our current form of corporate-led globalization and re-orient ourselves on a more democratic path. Popular misconceptions, what Derber terms the globalization mystique, present globalization as new, inevitable, self-propelling, and win-win for rich and poor countries alike. By challenging each of these beliefs, Derber reveals a dynamic system that is constantly being invented and re-invented-and can be again. Globalization does not have to be a race to the bottom where the poverty gap grows ever wider and half the world lives on less than two dollars a day. In fact, Derbers hopeful and detailed vision of reform, including practical suggestions for every concerned citizen, shows that globalization has the potential to be an authentic agent of democracy, social justice, and economic stability. The challenges are great; the new globalization will require deep and difficult changes, as well as a new politics that shifts power away from the elite. But the seeds have already been planted and the new globalization is beginning to emerge. In a moment rich with opportunity, People Before Profit is an essential contribution to the most important debate of our times, written in clear, straight-forward prose for everyone seeking a better world
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I ACKNOWLEDGE WITH GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION THE MANY PEOPLE who contributed to this book. I offer special thanks to Ralph Nader and Noam Chomsky for their extraordinary intellectual inspiration and support. Many thanks also to David Korten, who generously helped me develop and refine my vision in the final draft of the manuscript. I want also to thank Naomi Klein, Walden Bello, Lori Wallach, Tim Costello, Chuck Collins, and Mike Prokosch, all of whom have helped inspire me. My special, fond appreciation, also, to Charles Kernaghan and Barbara Briggs of the National Labor Center for their leadership of the anti-sweatshop movement, for giving me the opportunity to meet some of the workers discussed in the book, and for their friendship. I thank also Jeff Ballinger, David Lewit, Ginny Straus, Karen Nardella, Ruth Caplan, Bob Stubbs, and others in the Unitarian Universalist congregations, and Lynn Gargill, Kati Winchell, Nick Penniman, Ronnie Dugger, and the entire Northbridge Chapter of the Alliance for Democracy.
At Boston College, my colleagues in both the sociology department and the Leadership for Change program, including Severyn Bruyn, Bill Gamson, Paul Gray, Stephen Pfohl, Charlotte Ryan, Julie Schor, Eve Spangler, Steve Waddell, Judy Clair, Bill Joiner, Robert Leaver, Ken Mirvis, Joe Raelin, Rebecca Rowley,Neil Smith, Sandra Waddock, and Bill Torbert, contributed to my thinking. I also received valuable feedback from undergraduates and graduate students who were captive audiences for drafts of the manuscript. Alex Cheney played an important role in catalyzing my thinking, collecting data, and providing feedback. Priscilla Huang also collected valuable data and gave me new insights. And Deb Piatelli was a wonderful source of ideas and support throughout the whole project. The students active in the Boston College Global Justice Project have been an inspiration, and while there are too many to name, they have helped this work move forward.
Outside the BC community, I want to thank especially Steve Piersanti, the president and publisher of Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Steves contributions have been crucial and I want to publicly express my great appreciation to him. I also want to thank Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, who has been most generous, and Kathleen Epperson, Jeff Kulick, Sandy Chase, Charlie Dorris, and Gena Estes Zolatar for their comments.
I want to express enormous gratitude to Julia Pastore, my editor at St. Martins. She has made the book possible and strengthened it through her gifted editing. She has graciously attended to all the large and little concerns that I have raised and brought her enthusiasm and dedication to every aspect of the project. No author familiar with the workings of todays publishing industry expects such a committed partnership, and I am deeply appreciative for all Julia has done.
I cannot thank enough my closest friends and colleagues, David Karp and John Williamson, who are copartners in this enterprise in every possible sense of the term. David and John have offered detailed feedback to every successive draft, enduring endless discussions about the argument and style while always offering the enthusiasm and support to keep going. David has never flagged in his willingness to rehash every idea, obsess with me about titles and phrases, or pick me up when I needed his warmth and comfort. John has helped me laugh when I most needed it, listened with his astonishing patience to my ideas andlaments, and helped me make key strategic decisions. This book simply could not have been completed without their keen intellects, emotional generosity, and friendship.
Finally, I want to thank Elena for being there with patience and love through another several years of obsession. This has been a particularly intense project, and she has endured the price of it more than anyone else. She has been a source of intellectual guidance, editorial judgment, and unflagging patience and support. I have relied on her far more than can be said here. Thank you, my dear Elena.
The Pursuit of Attention
Power in the Highest Degree
Whats Left?
The Nuclear Seduction (with William Schwartz)
Professionals As Workers
The Wilding of America
Corporation Nation
WHAT TO DO RIGHT NOW
W HEN I TALK TO PUBLIC AUDIENCES OR STUDENTS ABOUT THE IDEAS in People Before Profit , many people are fired up and feel something has to be done. But doubts and questions always arise. People who are not already active in organizations or movements, and some who are, often say, I feel overwhelmed. Changing the world is a tall order. And they ask, Are there really any useful things that I can do to make a difference?
Here are my thoughts about what you can start to do today if you are not already involved. I hope these proposals will offer many readers a place to begin and provide those already active with some new inspiration.
Be self-reflective. Reflect in a personal way about globalization. Your job, your clothes and food, your cable channel, and your investments all connect you with transnational firms and the global business order. What is your own small role in keeping the system going? Is it consistent with your values? What do you feel in your gut about the problems of globalization discussed in this book? Reflect often and deeply about your emotional reactions to what you have read here. Let your images, free associations, and feelings suggest the next step about what to do.
Educate yourself. Are you a captive of the globalization mystique? It will take more reading and discussion to make yourself aware of how you may buy into the myths of the age. Once you have read this book, read some related books, and get on an Internet listserv about globalization. Subscribe to a magazine based abroad to get a view of how those outside the United States see it. Or listen to a European, Latin American, or Middle East cable news channel.
Start a study and action group. You cant change the world aloneor even understand it all by yourself. I know churches and unions that have formed groups to study globalization. They read books together, bring in speakers, and create their own study guides. Very often, they move on to create projects in their community or help sister congregations, unions, and communities abroad. You can create a study group in your congregation, public library, local school system, or union, or at your place of business.
Travel. This is the fun part. I have found that students who are most energetic and hopeful about making a difference are those who have spent time on service projects in El Salvador, Guatemala, or another Central American country. Even as a tourist, you can get a new sense of how the global poor live if you venture out of the big Western hotel complexes. There is nothing quite like seeing up close and personal the latrines or huts in a poor country. It will change your views about yourself andwatch out! It is the thing most likely to turn you into a dedicated and activist citizen of the world.
Buy smart. We all buy thingsits almost a patriotic thing to do in the United States these days. But if we spend our consumer dollars wisely and strategically, we can move even big companies like Nike, McDonalds, or Disney. Catholic high-school students along with nuns in New York City boycotted a Niketown, demanding that the company live up to its own code of conduct in sweatshops. When thestore manager saw the nuns and neatly dressed kids, and the media they were attracting, he promised to get on the phone to corporate headquarters. Students at my own campus, Boston College, and many other universities around the country are pressing their university presidents to insist that the caps, sweatshirts, and polo shirts with their college logos be produced sweat-free. State employees or workers and managers in any company can insist that their employer only buy from vendors who respect global labor rights and environmental codes. Hook up with one of the many consumer groups in your community, including any of the Nader-inspired public-interest groups, that link concerns of consumers with issues of trade and corporate power.
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