International delegates agreed Friday that the world has the technology and money to limit catastrophic global warming...Promptly adopting biofuels, renewable energy sources and greater energy efficiency can mitigate worldwide disaster, according to a rep
Part documentary and part fiction feature, "John & Jane" is a film set in the call centers of Mumbai that explores the effects of globalization on six call agents. Indian by day and American by night, the employees' split-identity lives warp their sense o
American tax dollars and the wartime needs of the U.S. military are fueling an illicit pipeline of cheap foreign labor, mainly impoverished Asians who often are deceived, exploited and put in harm's way in Iraq with little protection.
Welcome to the working website for the SSHRC MCRI Globalization and Autonomy ongoing research project. The purpose of this space is to provide information for all of the team members involved in the project and their research assistants.
portside aims to provide varied material of interest to people on the left -- things that will help them to interpret the world, and to change it. We invite you to submit material for consideration. News, analysis, opinion, discussion and debate are welco
The proposed project examines how displaced industrial workers, their families, and the town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario adjusted to the closure of Weyerhaeuser’s corrugated paper mill in December 2002. The mill was the centre of local life for more than