Table Of ContentPreface. Introduction. I. BRACING FOR GLOBALIZATION. 1. Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, Helena Norberg-Hodge. 2. The Homogenization of Culture, Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh. 3. The Politics of the Real World: Hope, Fear, and the New Century, Michael Jacobs and The Real World Coalition. II. SOCIAL INEQUALITIES. Global Inequality. 4. Imperialism 101, Michael Parenti. Class Inequality. 5. Children and Poverty in America, James Garbarino. 6. As Long as They Can Sell Their Blood, Linda McQuaig. Inequalities of Race and Gender. 7. The Black Poor and the Politics of Expendability, Barbara Ransby. 8. Affirmative Action, Deborah L. Rhode. 9. Women and Welfare Reform, Mimi Abramovitz. 10. Female Genital Mutilation: A Reproductive Health Concern, Karungaru Kiragu. III. PROBLEMS OF THE FAMILY. 11. The American Family and the Nostalgia Trap, Stephanie Coontz. 12. Family Policy in Sweden: Lessons for the United States, Ruth Sidel. IV. PROBLEMS IN EDUCATION. 13. Where Children Rule, Nicholas D. Kristof. 14. U.S. and German Youths: Unemployment and the Transition from School to Work, Robert J. Gitter and Markus Scheuer. V. CHANGES AND PROBLEMS IN THE WORKPLACE. 15. Job Availability: Achilles Heel of Welfare Reform, Katherine S. Newman. 16. McDonald's: We Do It All for You, Barbara Garson. 17. The Maquiladora Revolution in Guatemala, Kurt Petersen. 18. Immigration Dilemmas, Richard Rothstein. 19. A Global New Deal, Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh. VI. PROBLEMS IN HEALTH CARE AND PROBLEMS OF THE ELDERLY. 20. Canada's Health Insurance and Ours: The Real Lessons, the Big Choices, Theodore R. Marmor and Jerry L. Mashaw. 21. Primary Care in Cuba: A Public Health Approach, Karen A. Swanson, Janice M. Swanson, Ayesha Gill, and Chris Welter. 22. The Microeconomics of AIDS Epidemic in Africa, Tomas Philipson and Richard A. Posner. 23. Japan and the United States Struggle with Who Will Take Care of Our Aging Parents, Viola M. Lechner and Masahito Sasaki. 24. The Elderly at Home in Norway, Merl C. Hokenstad. VII. CRIME AND DEVIANCE. 25. Lessons in Order, David H. Bayley. 26. Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States: Views from Outside the United States, Robert Heiner. 27. Alone Among Its Peers: The United States' Refusal to Join the International Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment, Lawrence D. Wood. 28. Rx Drugs, 60 Minutes. 29. Homosexual Behavior in Cross-Cultural Perspective, J.M. Carrier. 30. Schizophrenia in the Third World, Richard Warner. VIII. PROBLEMS OF POPULATION AND OF THE ENVIRONMENT. 31. An Ecology of Mind: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World, David Maybury-Lewis. 32. Slicing Up the Rainforest on Your Breakfast Cereal, John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto. 33. Overpopulation as a Propaganda Device, Bill Weinberg. 34. Creative Destruction: Capitalist Development and China's Environment, Richard Smith. EPILOGUE. 35. If the GDP Is Up, Why Is America Down? Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead, and Jonathan Rowe.
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