Real World Globalization is an essential guide to rapidly-changing trends in global trade, investment, labor relations, and economic development. Its 48 articles provide jargon-free introductions to trade and financial instititutions, work in the global economy, international debt, and the global environment. An extensive chapter on economic development critically analyzes neoliberal strategies in countries from Mexico to Korea, and features a debate on the significance of rich nations agricultural subsidies. The eight edition also includes a new chapter on the political economy of war and imperialism, with articles on the consequences of the U.S. military buildup for corporations, the U.S. working class, and the global environment. A final chapter, also new, examines alternatives to neoliberalism, from social democracy in Sweden, to democratic decentralization in Kerala, to factory seizures by workers in Argentina. - Back cover.