Exploring a wide range of issues, from the integration of the world economy to how contemporary processes are shaping and shaped by nation-states and how workers are organizing transnationally in response to transformations in the planet?s economic geography, Geographies of Globalization is a critical examination of what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world.

• Challenges neoliberal assumptions on the nature of globalization
• Provides a conceptual overview of how globalization is a spatial process and of its relation to capitalism
• Explores whether we are in fact living in a more ?globalized? world or only in a more ?internationalized? one
• Considers arguments concerning whether ?globalization? is a new phenomenon or simply the latest manifestation of processes many hundreds of years in the making
• Focuses on how nation-states have shaped, and been shaped by, contemporary processes of ?globalization?, how ?globalization? has been imagined discursively, and how workers are responding to such processes
• Explores how workers are creating new organizing strategies in response to ?globalization?