Table Of ContentEgalitarian Politics in
the Age of Globalization
Edited by
Craig N. Murphy
International Political Economy Series
GeneralEditor: TimothyM. Shaw, Professor of Commonwealth Governance and
Development, and Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of
Advanced Study, University of London
Titles include:
Francis Adams, Satya Dev Gupta and Kidane Mengisteab (editors)
GLOBALIZATION AND THE DILEMMAS OF THE STATE IN THE SOUTH
Preet S. Aulakh and Michael G. Schechter (editors)
RETHINKING GLOBALIZATION(S)
From Corporate Transnationalism to Local Interventions
Elizabeth De Boer-Ashworth
THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND POST-1989 CHANGE
The Place of the Central European Transition
Edward A. Comor (editor)
THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMMUNICATION
Helen A. Garten
US FINANCIAL REGULATION AND THE LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
Randall D. Germain (editor)
GLOBALIZATION AND ITS CRITICS
Perspectives from Political Economy
Barry K. Gills (editor)
GLOBALIZATION AND THE POLITICS OF RESISTANCE
Takashi Inoguchi
GLOBAL CHANGE
A Japanese Perspective
Jomo K.S. and Shyamala Nagaraj (editors)
GLOBALIZATION VERSUS DEVELOPMENT
Stephen D. McDowell
GLOBALIZATION, LIBERALIZATION AND POLICY CHANGE
A Political Economy of India’s Communications Sector
Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman (editors)
LABOUR WORLDWIDE IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
Alternative Union Models in the New World Order
Craig N. Murphy (editor)
EGALITARIAN POLITICS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
Michael Niemann
A SPATIAL APPROACH TO REGIONALISM IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Ted Schrecker (editor)
SURVIVING GLOBALISM
The Social and Environmental Challenges
Leonard Seabrooke
US POWER IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
The Victory of Dividends
Timothy J. Sinclair and Kenneth P. Thomas (editors)
STRUCTURE AND AGENCY IN INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MOBILITY
Kendall Stiles (editor)
GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS AND LOCAL EMPOWERMENT
Competing Theoretical Perspectives
Caroline Thomas and Peter Wilkin (editors)
GLOBALIZATION AND THE SOUTH
Kenneth P. Thomas
CAPITAL BEYOND BORDERS
States and Firms in the Auto Industry, 1960–94
Geoffrey R. D. Underhill (editor)
THE NEW WORLD ORDER IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
Amy Verdun
EUROPEAN RESPONSES TO GLOBALIZATION AND FINANCIAL MARKET
INTEGRATION
Perceptions of Economic and Monetary Union in Britain, France and Germany
Robert Wolfe
FARM WARS
The Political Economy of Agriculture and the International Trade Regime
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Contents
Notes on the Contributors vii
List of Abbreviations viii
Introduction: Globalization and the Double-
Movement Hypothesis 1
Craig N. Murphy
1 Class, Gender and the Politics of Neoliberal
Globalization in the USA 7
Mark Rupert
2 Egalitarian Social Movements in Western Europe:
Can They Survive Globalization and the Economic
and Monetary Union? 36
Joel Krieger
3 Latin America in an Age of Inequality:
Confronting the New ‘Utopia’ 51
William I. Robinson
4 Engendering Change through Egalitarian Movements:
The African Experience 77
Filomina C. Steady
5 Egalitarian Responses in Postcommunist Russia 96
Jane Dawson
6 Nonsocial Movements and Social Nonmovements
in China 124
Marc Blecher
7 Capital, Crisis and Chaos: Indonesia and Malaysia
in a Globalizing Era 145
Christine B. N. Chin and Sylvia C. Tiwon
8 Migrant Workers’ Movements in Japan and South Korea 174
Katharine H. S. Moon
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9 Conclusion: Pinpointing the Significance of Women’s
Empowerment, Recognizing Political Opportunities,
Anticipating Transnational Coalitions 205
Craig N. Murphy
References 212
Index 227
Notes on the Contributors
Marc Blecher is Professor of Politics at Oberlin College and author of
China Against the Tides: Restructuring through Revolution, Radicalism and
Reform(1997).
Christine B. N. Chinis Assistant Professor of International Relations at
American University in Washington, DC, and author of In Service and
Servitude: Women and the Malaysian Modernization Project(1997).
Jane Dawson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Connecticut
College and author of Eco-Nationalism: Anti-Nuclear Activism and Nati-
onal Identity in Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine(1996).
Joel Krieger is Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at
Wellesley College and author of British Politics in a Global Age: Can
Social Democracy Survive?(1999).
Katharine H. S. Moon is Associate Professor of Political Science at
Wellesley College and author of Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in
US–Korean Relations(1997).
Craig N. Murphyis Professor and Chair of Political Science at Wellesley
College and past President of the International Studies Association.
William I. Robinson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the
University of California and author of Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization,
US Intervention, and Hegemony(1996).
Mark Rupert is Associate Professor of Political Science at Syracuse
University and author of Producing Hegemony: The Politics of Mass
Production and American Global Power(1995).
Filomina C. Steady is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at
Wellesley College and president of the Womens’ World Summit
Foundation, a Geneva-based international organization helping to pro-
mote the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Sylvia C. Tiwonis Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the
University of California, Berkeley, and author of Breaking the Spell:
Colonialism and Literary Renaissance in Indonesia(1999).
vii
List of Abbreviations
AAWORD Association of African Women Organized for Research and
Development
AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations
AFP Agence France-Press
Alt-WID Alternative Women-in-Development
ANC African National Congress
APFS Asian People’s Friendship Society
CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of
Discrimination against Women
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CIO Congress of Industrial Organizations
CND China News Digest
COWAN Country-Women Association of Nigeria
CTIC Catholic Tokyo International Center
CUEPACS Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil
Services
ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean
EMU Economic and Monetary Union
EPI Economic Policy Institute
EU European Union
FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service’s China Daily Report
FDI foreign direct investment
FKTU Federation of Korean Trade Unions
FNPR Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia
FOMCA Federation of Malaysian Consumers Association
FTUI Free Trade Union Institute
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
IGO intergovernmental organization
IMF International Monetary Fund
ISA Internal Security Act
JCMK Joint Committee for Migrant Workers
KCTU Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
LO Landsorganisationen (Sweden)
MCA Malayan Chinese Association
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List of Abbreviations ix
MIC Malayan Indian Congress
MSP Malay Special Privileges
MTUC Malaysian Trades Union Congress
MWM Migrant Workers’ Movement
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NCWS National Council of Womens’ Societies
NEP New Economic Policy
NGO nongovernmental organization
NNSMW National Network in Solidarity with Migrant Workers
NOW National Organization for Women
NSM new social movements
NSP New Social Policy
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
PAC Pan African Congress
PDI Partai Demokrasi Indonesia
PKI Indonesian Communist Party
PPP Partai Persatuan Pembangunan
SAP Structural Adjustment Program
UMNO United Malays National Organization
UNDP United Nations Development Program
UN ECA United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
UPI United Press International
UPS United Parcel Service
WIN Women in Nigeria
