The Great DisruptionISBN: 978-0-7456-3663-4
Hardcover
272 pages
September 2007, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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The dynamic that currently underlies global social change is the
product of forces that are not of a single type or origin. As a
consequence, that change is experienced as a process that uproots
individuals but gives no guidance for the future, that destroys but
does not reconstruct, that prescribes action but provides no
reassurance. The radical uncertainty it engenders is an
understandable source of anxiety: the rich countries are
increasingly worried about competition from low-wage economies,
while the wretched of the earth suspect their precarious existences
will come under even greater pressure. Within each nation, the
constantly growing gap between winners and losers exacerbates these
fears. The Great Disruption is at its height.
This book is an examination and interpretation of the enormous complex of social changes which, for want of a better word, we term globalization.