Lives in the balance
Subtitle: perspectives on global injustice and inequality
By: edited by Pat Lauderdale and Randall Amster.
Contributors: Lauderdale, Pat.; Amster, Randall.
Series: International studies in sociology and social anthropology,; v. 66
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Equality.; Justice.
Description: We find ourselves in a world that reflects a tension between the totalizing discourses of global corporate capitalism and representative democracy on the one hand, and the contingent, fragmentary nature of post-colonial life on the other. How (indeed, whether) this dialectic will be reconciled in the new millenium is not merely a question for academic consideration, but has real implications for the lives of people in the 'developing' world who are caught at the interstices of these conflicting forces.

What a comparative, critical sociological perspective can provide is a window into the souls of people struggling for self-determination, equality, and justice. It is in this spirit that we present this work focusing on the study of injustice and inequality in the world system.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.