ABSTRACT
These diverse actors and interests have led to the emergence of various ideological perspectives on globalization, including the conservative, progressive, nationalist, and radical outlooks. In general, however, globalization is defined as a process of growing interdependence among people across nations, as a shift from distinct national economies to an internationalized economy, and as a worldwide network of finance, production, and information based on the international mobility of capital, people, and goods and services (CIDA, 1996; ILO, 1999; OECD, 1998). This interpretation does not address the noneconomic dimensions of globalization and its unequal structure. In this chapter, globalization is thus largely understood as a process of integraling regions, nations, societies, and peoples in the domains of economics, politics, culture, and knowledge through means such as capital, technology, production, exchange, and information owned and controlled unequally by various states, organizations, classes, and individuals.
