Global Squeeze: The Coming Crisis for First-World Nations

by Richard C. Longworth

Book Overview

Global Squeeze examines the impact that glob alisation has had on key first world countries - the United States, Germany, France and Japan - and analyses their curre nt situations. ' This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809229757
• ISBN13: 9780809229758
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Mr. President, please read this!

I read Global Squeeze when it first came out. It's much more realistic than any others I've read since. (Future Perfect, Maestro, Independently Wealthy) I can see no hope for our middle class due to the job exports in all occupational categories. For the latest real world view read Business Week, Feb. 3, 2003, "The Global Job Shift."We are in real trouble.

Capital

This is a very effective piece of economic reporting and must be one of the most acute pictures of 'capital in the raw' that I have read, a desmerizing tonic to the endless litany of neoliberal triumphalism. Neither Marxist, nor doctrinaire, it unwittingly scores a bullseye of indirect marxist analysis of the one-and-the-same process that is the invariant of the capitalist system. This isn't even a radical statement. Slogans one way or the other are stopped in their tracks by facts here, and facts that induce momentary helpless shock, quite short of firebrand indignation. We don't live in a global democratic system. Therefore we don't live in a democratic system. Capital has beaten the pants off sentimentalism here. Democracy so-called is a good front, but otherwise an inconvenience to the predators described herein. The author produces one horrendousstatistic about forty thousand people controlling 81 trillion in assets. Capital.Not much more needs to be said. Your move, unless you are powerless, a democratic nobody. Checkmate?

An Interesting Way to Look at The Global Markets

As an Economics major in college, I found the book captivating. It shows the ways the emerging global market affects the first world nation's prosperity, stability, and confidence. The book also raises social responsibility and personal justice issues that will directly affect everyone within the next 30 years.

The GLOBALIST FANTASY EXPOSED!

A scary must read for those concerned about the country's future. If you feel the uneasy economic chill in the air, this book will explain why! If your city's industrial base is gone this book will explain why! If you are stuck in a minimum wage "temp" society this book will explain why! This book exposes the neo-con globalist fantasy for what it is...Free trade is not free! and Cheap labor is not cheap! Unfortunately this book does not explain why no one seems to care!!!!

An important look at the dark side of globalization

With all the hoopla surrounding the surging American economy and stock market, it's refreshing to read something that offers an intelligent and unbiased view of the harm and instability resulting from the fluidity of large multinational conglomerates that freely move about from one nation to another in search of cheap labor. Longworth's astute and meticulous analysis shows us all the full impact of globalization on the people who live with it on a daily basis. This book would be particularly valuable, I think, to young people in college-level current events courses.