ABSTRACT
Contemporary concerns about globalization are rather difficult to avoid. Growing interdependence enriches some people and marginalizes others. Some professional observers counsel that these economic changes are inevitable, while others mobilize in protest and opposition to unregulated and often rapid change. There are clear gains in community sensitivities. Genocide in Rwanda or a destructive tsunami in the Indian Ocean are events that are no longer ‘too distant’ to heed. There are mixed gains in activities such as outsourcing. Selected poorer areas gain new jobs while other areas lose employment to places with lower wage structures. There are also clear losses in terms of such activities as globalized crime and pollution, as well as the more rapid dissemination of disease.
