Social Transformation and the Global Economy

The context of this book is set by the decline of the globalization paradigm's ability to grasp the complexity and uncertainty of the current era. It takes a new approach based on the frame of 'transformation' viewed as a catalyst to understand the complex interconnected nature of the world around us from a concrete, grounded perspective.

Ronaldo Munck is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Engaged Research at Dublin City University, Ireland.

Part I: Labour 1. From the New International Labour Studies to the New Global Labour Studies 2. Work and Capitalist Globalization: Beyond Dualist Reason 3. Globalization and the Labour Movement: Challenges and Responses 4. The Precariat: A View from the South Part II: Latin America 5. Challenges and Prospects for Change in Latin America: A Foresight Approach 6. Latin America: Between the Promises of Globalization and the Chimera of Nationalism 7. Labour and Dependent Development: The Case of Latin America 8. Social Movements in Latin America Paradigms, People, and Politics Part III: The Lefts 9. Development and Marxism: A Brief Genealogy 10. Karl Polanyi for Latin America: Markets, Society, and Development 11. José Carlos Mariátegui and Twenty-first-Century Socialism: Recovery and Renewal 12. Global Sociology: Towards an Alternative Southern Paradigm