Globalization and its terrors / Teresa Brennan.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-231) and index.

1. Daily Life in the West Under Globalization -- 2. Breathing Time -- 3. The Conditions of Life -- 4. Telecommunications and New Trade Agreements -- 5. Health Cuts and Corporate Wealth -- 6. Education and the Cost of Children -- 7. The So-called Third Way -- 8. Technology Alone Is Not the Source of Profit -- 9. Energy as the Source of Value -- 10. The Real Third Way -- 11. The Prime Directive.

Publisher description: It has long been realized that the poorer countries of the south have paid for the unstoppable onward rush of globalization in the exploitation of their natural and human resources. In this elegant, lucidly argued account, Teresa Brennan argues that the evidence already exists that globalization has for years been harming not just the poor of the Third World but also its alleged beneficiaries in the affluent West. She shows how the speeding up of contemporary capitalism in which space is substituted for time means that neither the environment nor the people who live in it are given the opportunity to regenerate, leading directly to pollution-induced, immune-deficient and stress-related disease. In the final chapter she suggests some alternative ways forward through a return to regionally based production and an emphasis on local economies. Brennan's clear writing and thought-provoking idea s are a must-read for reconsidering the process and consequences of globalization in today's world.