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A global political economy of intellectual property rights : the new enclosures?

It has become commonplace that there has been an information revolution, transforming both society and the economy. In 1995 the Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIPs) agreement aimed to harmonise protection for property in knowledge throughout the global system. This book considers the contemporary disputes about the ownership of knowledge resources - as in the cases of genetically modified foods, the music industry or the internet - and the problematic nature of the TRIPs agreement. In his highly topical book, Christopher May reveals that, because of such problems, at present the balance in intellectual property rights between public good and private reward is more often than not weighted towards the latter.

Global unions? : theory and strategies of organized labour in the global political economy

This edited collection examines the interaction between industrial relations and international relations in the global economy. The role of trade unions has changed significantly in the era of economic globalization and this book analyzes the key developments in union strategy on a local, national, regional and global level.

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Gender and global restructuring : sightings, sites and resistances

This and many other provocative questions are addressed in this ground breaking book. Filling a significant gap Gender and Global Restructuring provides the first comprehensive analysis of globalization and its relationship to gender. Feminist experts from a range of disciplines take the reader beyond narrow interpretations of globalization and show the complexities and contradictions of ongoing global transformations, referred to as global restructuring. The book presents a significant critique of the gender-blindness of both neo-liberal and critical accounts of globalization and foregrounds feminist accounts which stress women's agency, not just victimization, in relation to global restructuring. It reveals how states, markets, civil society, households and gender identities are simultaneously being restructured in different ways in different regional and national contexts. It also shows how women's resistances connect the global and the local, the public and the private. This pioneering collection will be vital reading for students and researchers in the fields of globalization, gender studies, international political economy, international relations and comparative.