From the Net to the Net: Atlantic Canada and the Global Economy

Published Under the Garamond Imprint Globalization appears inevitable and inescapable in its effects, all countries and people having to adjust to an irresistible force the best way they can-to insert themselves into the process under the most favourable conditions, or to make the best deal possible with a single global economy based on capitalist principles. From the Net to the Net looks at the dynamics of this process as well as strategic responses. Appearances to the contrary, the process of globalization in this regional context is by no means inevitable, nor is it immutable. Diverse organizations of people in an increasingly organized "civil society" are coming together to mobilize the forces of opposition to globalization in its neoliberal form. In Atlantic Canada, as elsewhere, a search for an alternative form of change is emerging, development and globalization that is participatory and liberating, sustainable in terms of both the environment and livelihoods, as well as equitable and socially inclusive.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Towards a New Political Economy of Development in Atlantic Canada James Sacouman and Henry Veltmeyer Rethinking Underdevelopment in Atlantic Canada Henry Veltmeyer Just More of the Same? Confederation and Globalization Michael Clow Capitalist Restructuring on Canada's East Coast James Sacouman Income Distribution in Nova Scotia, 2000 Colin Dodds and Ronald Colman The Decaying Social Compact in Atlantic Canada Thom Workman Call Centres: A New Solution to an Old Problem? Tom Good and Joan McFarland Contradictions in Community Economic Development: New Dawn Enterprises Scott MacAulay State Employment and Trade Unionism: Signs of Renewal? Anthony Thomson Policy Issues in the Trade Union Movement: Two Views from Labour Barbara Moore and James Sacouman Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
James Sacouman is Professor of Sociology at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Henry Veltmeyer is Professor of International Development Studies at Saint Mary's University and adjunct professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (Mexico). He is the author of numerous publications on the political economy of global and regional developments, including, most recently, System in Crisis (2003) and The Dynamics of Globalization/Antiglobalization (2004).

Review :
This text looks at globalization through the lens of Atlantic Canadians and their relationship with both the global economy and the country at large.