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�