Globalization and Global Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7078173 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dieter Rucht (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosg054 |
| OpenAlex | W4238254154 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Global justice movements (GJMs) are a loose alliance of contemporary leftist movements whose common denominator is their resistance to globalizing neoliberalism that promotes free trade, deregulation, and privatization as keys to universal progress. In the eyes of its critics, neoliberalism serves the interests of economic and political elites at the cost of the large majority of the population within, but especially beyond, the most developed countries (Rucht 2003). GJMs identify the driving force of neoliberalism in relentless profit‐seeking that causes a plethora of evils, such as violation of human and civil rights, destruction of indigenous cultures, growing unemployment and increasingly precarious jobs, environmental degradation, and the widening gap between the affluent and the poor
Alliance · Deregulation · Development economics · Economics · Globalization · Indigenous · Market economy · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · International Development and Aid · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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