Global problems and the culture of capitalism
By: Richard H. Robbins.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Economic history -- 1990-; Social problems; Capitalism; Consumption (Economics); Poverty
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the consumer, the laborer; title: The capitalist, and the nation-state in the society of perpetual growth; title: Introduction; title: A primer on money; title: Capitalism and the making of the consumer; title: Culture and the construction of the consumer; title: The construction of the consumer; title: Kinderculture in America: the child as consumer; title: The role of children in capitalism; title: The social construction of childhood; title: Conclusion; title: The laborer in the culture of capitalism; title: A primer on the economic elements of capitalism; title: The baptism of money; title: The construction and anatomy of the working class; title: Characteristics of the working class; title: The growth of overseas assembly plants; title: The creation of free labor; title: The segmentation of the workforce; title: Control and discipline; title: Resistance and rebellion; title: Conclusion; title: The rise of the merchant, industrialist, and capital controller; title: The era of the global trader; title: A trader's tour of the world in the economic rise of Europe and its impact on Africa and the Americas; title: The rise of the trading companies; title: The era of the industrialist; title: Textiles and the rise of the factory system; title: The age of imperialism; title: The era of the corporation, the multilateral institution, and the capital controller; title: The rise of the corporation; title: Bretton Woods and the world debt; title: The power of capital controllers; title: Conclusion; title: The nation-state in the culture of capitalism; title: The origin and history of the state; title: The evolution of the state; title: The history and function of the nation-state; title: Constructing the nation-state; title: Creating the other; title: Language, bureaucracy, and education; title: Violence and genocide; title: Spin, free trade, and the role of energy in the global economy; title: Manufacturing consent: spin; title: Markets and free trade; title: Energy and technology; title: Conclusion; title: Introduction: the global impact of the culture of capitalism; title: The problem of population growth; title: The malthusians versus the revisionists; title: The case of India and China; title: The issue of carrying capacity; title: The ideology of malthusian concerns; title: Demographic transition theory; title: A primer on the determinants of population growth and decline; title: Some examples of demographic change; title: Population growth in the periphery; title: Wealth flows theory; title: The social implications of wealth flows theory; title: The question of gender and power; title: Problems and prospects; title: Conclusion; title: Hunger, poverty, and economic development; title: The evolution of food production: from the neolithic to the neocaloric; title: From gathering and hunting to the neolithic; title: Capitalism and agriculture; title: The neocaloric and the green revolution; title: The politics of hunger; title: The anatomy of famine; title: The anatomy of endemic hunger; title: Solutions and adaptations to poverty and hunger; title: Economic development; title: The nature and growth of the informal economy; title: The nature and scope of the informal economy of drugs; title: Conclusion; title: Environment and consumption; title: The case of sugar; title: Sugar origins and production; title: Uses of sugar; title: The development of the sugar complex; title: The expansion of sugar consumption; title: The mass consumption of sugar; title: Modern sugar; title: The story of beef; title: The ascendancy of beef; title: The emergence of the American beef industry; title: Modern beef; title: The internationalization of the hamburger; title: Environmentally sustainable cattle raising; title: Exporting pollution; title: Conclusion; title: Disease; title: A primer on how to die of an infectious disease; title: The relationships between culture and disease; title: Gathering and hunting to early agriculture; title: "Graveyards of mankind"; title: Diseases of environmental change; title: Aids and the culture of capitalism; title: How did the disease spread?; title: Who gets infected with AIDS?; title: Who gets blamed?; title: Conclusion; title: Indigenous people, ethnic groups, and the nation-state; title: The fate of indigenous peoples; title: Some characteristics of indigenous peoples; title: The process of ethnocide; title: The Guarani: the economics of ethnocide; title: History and background; title: Contemporary development and Guarani communities; title: Disadvantaged majorities and their revenge; title: Leveling crowds; title: Genocide and an externality of the market; title: "Ethnic cleansing" in Yugoslavia; title: Genocide in Rwanda; title: Conclusion; title: Introduction: resistance and rebellion; title: Peasant protest, rebellion, and resistance; title: Malaysia and the weapons of the weak; title: Malaysian peasants and the green revolution; title: Fighting back; title: Obstacles to resistance; title: Protest and change; title: Kikuyu and the Mau Mau rebellion; title: The British in East Africa; title: The White Highlands; title: The roots of the rebellion; title: The rebellion; title: "State of emergency"; title: The oath and the detention camps; title: Independence; title: The rebellion in Chiapas; title: Poverty and inequality in Chiapas; title: The rebellion and the global economy; title: The revolt and the reaction of the Mexican government; title: The future of peasants; title: Conclusion; title: Antisystemic protest; title: Protest as antisystemic: the two world revolutions; title: The revolution of 1848; title: The revolution of 1968; title: The protests of labor: coal miners in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania; title: The coal industry and the worker's life; title: Worker resistance and protest; title: Destroying worker resistance; title: Global feminist resistance; title: Gender relations in the culture of capitalism; title: Strategies of protest; title: Ecological resistance movements; title: Earthfirst!; title: Chipko and the tragedy of the commons; title: Conclusion; title: Religion and antisystemic protest; title: Indigenous religious movements as protest; title: The ghost dance; title: The cargo cults; title: Zionism in South Africa; title: The global challenge of antisystemic religious protest; title: Islamic fundamentalism; title: Protestant fundamentalism in north america; title: Terror in the mind of God; title: Some examples of religious violence; title: The militants of protestant fundamentalists; title: Terror in the Holy Land; title: Armageddon in a Tokyo subway; title: Understanding religious violence; title: Conclusion; title: Constructing the citizen-activist; title: What are the real dangers?; title: The GNP and the construction of the doctrine of perpetual growth; title: The depletion of natural capital; title: The depletion of political capital; title: The depletion of social capital; title: Capital and public policy; title: Constructing the citizen-activist; title: Indices and goals for well-being; title: The means and prospects for change: attaining zero economic growth; title: Rebuilding and maintaining natural capital; title: Restoring political capital; title: Rebuilding social capital; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: Name index; title: Place and culture index; title: Subject index; title: Credits.