Why are the poor countries poor? What can they do to turn their situations around? Is the globalization of production and consumption helping or hurting poor nations? What are its effects on societies in those nations? This book provides information on the issues of processes of social change and development in the "Third World".

Why are the poor countries poor? What can they do to turn their situations around? Is the globalization of production and consumption helping or hurting poor nations? What are its effects on societies in those nations? What happens to countries and individuals when they move from being "backwards" to being "modern"? "The Globalization and Development Reader" builds on the success of "From Modernization to Globalization", published by the editors in 2000, to provide an up-do-date primer and key reference for students, scholars and development practitioners wishing to get up to speed quickly on the issues of processes of social change and development in the "Third World". It includes 10 essays from the previous edition and adds 17 new ones, offering carefully excerpted samples from both classic and recent writings. A general editorial introduction to the book, and short, insightful introductions for each section, provide a well rounded foundation for non-specialist audiences.

About the Editors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments to Sources
Development and Globalization: Recurring Themes: Amy Bellone Hite and J. Timmons Roberts
Part I: Formative Approaches to Development and Social Change
Introduction: Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite
1. Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and Alienated Labor (1844): Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
2. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905): Max Weber
3. The Stages of Economic Growth:A Non-Communist Manifesto: W.W. Rostow (1960)
4. The Change to Change: Modernization, Development and Politics (1971)
and Political Order in Changing Societies (1968): Samuel Huntington
Part II: Dependency and Beyond
Introduction: Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite
5. The Development of Underdevelopment (1969): Andre Gunder Frank
6. Dependency and Development in Latin America (1972): Fernando Henrique Cardoso
7. The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis (1979): Immanuel Wallerstein
8. Rethinking Development Theory: Insights From East Asia and Latin America (1989/1994): Gary Gereffi
9. Gender and the Global Economy (1999): Valentine M. Moghadam
Part III: What is Globalization?: Attempts to Understand Economic Globalization
Introduction: Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite
10. The New International Division of Labor in the World Economy (1980): Folker Frobel, Jurgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye
11. The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism (1989): Manuel Castells
12. Cities in a World Economy (2000): Saskia Sassen
13. Globalization: Myths and Realities (1996): Philip McMichael
14. Competing Conceptions of Globalization (1999): Leslie Sklair
15. It's a Flat World, After All (2005): Thomas L. Friedman
Part IV: The Opportunities and Limits of Unfettered Globalization
Introduction: Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite
16. In Defense of Global Capitalism (2003): Johan Norberg
17. What Strategies are Viable for Developing Countries Today?: The World Trade Organization and the Shrinking of 'Development Space' (2003): Robert H. Wade
18. Globalism's Discontents (2002): Joseph E. Stiglitz
19. The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work (1999) and Has Globalization Gone too Far? (1997): Dani Rodrik
20. Industrial Convergence, Globalization, and the Persistence of the North - South Divide (1999): Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly J. Silver, and Benjamin Brewer
21. The New Development-Security Terrain (2001): Mark Duffield
Part V: Confronting Globalization
Introduction: Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite
22. The Anti-Globalization Movement (2005): Jeffrey Sachs
23. Reconstructing World Order: Towards Cosmopolitan Social Democracy (2002): David Held and Anthony McGrew
24. Environmental Advocacy Networks (1997): Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink
25. What Can We Expect from Global Labor Movements?: Five Commentaries (2002): Ralph Armbruster, Bradley Nash, Jr., Gay Seidman, Robert Ross, Rich Appelbaum, Jennifer Bickham-Mendez, and Edna Bonacich
26. Transnational Solidarity: Women's Agency, Structural Adjustment, and Globalization (2002): Manisha Desai
27. Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: Transnational Social Movements in the Contemporary Global Political Economy (2005): Peter Evans
Index