Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality [Hardcover]

Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization has exacerbated and alleviated inequality over the past twenty-five years. This volume offers analytical and comparative insights from current case studies of social inequality in more than ten countries within all the major regions of the world. Contributors provide an assessment of the overall social globalization phenomenon in the global world as well as an outlook of transformations of global social inequality in the future. This book will be a timely addition for students and scholars of globalization studies, social inequality, sociology, and cultural and social anthropology.

List of Tables.  List of Figures.  Preface Ulrike Schuerkens.  Theoretical and Empirical Introduction: Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality Ulrike Schuerkens  1. Mobilities as Dimensions of Social Inequality Katharina Manderscheid  2. Impact of Remittances on Income Inequalities in Romania Ana Maria Zamfir, Cristina Mocanu, Eva Militaru, and Speranta Pirciog  3. Creating Best PerformingNations in Education: The Case of the European Unions Use of Benchmarking Susana Melo  4. Gender, Inequality, and Globalization  Ilse Lenz  5. Nicaragua: Constructing the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) Thomas Muhr  6. The Transformation of the Social Issue: Poverty, Society, and the State Anete Brito Leal Ivo and Ruthy Nadia Laniado  7. Limits to the Revitalization of Labor: Social Movement Unionism in Argentina Ayse Serdar  8. Communities: A Lever for Mitigating Social Tensions in Urban China Amandine Monteil  9. Rising Income Inequality in Centralse