Jamie K. McCallum
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801451935
- eISBN:
- 9780801469480
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801451935.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
This introductory chapter discusses alter-globalization movements in the late 1990s, criticizing the commonly held belief that neoliberal globalization would hollow out trade unions, undermine state ...
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This introductory chapter discusses alter-globalization movements in the late 1990s, criticizing the commonly held belief that neoliberal globalization would hollow out trade unions, undermine state protections, and place national working classes in competition with one another for scarce jobs. This movement questioned the supposed fixity of labor within the national context, and asserted that unions are forging a new frontier within an old tradition—global unions for the global age. Given that scholars have overlooked many details regarding the increasing tendency of labor politics to “go global,” the book examines how transnational campaigns empower or inspire local movements. In addition, the campaigns studied are inspired by global priorities and yet have empowered local struggles.Less
This introductory chapter discusses alter-globalization movements in the late 1990s, criticizing the commonly held belief that neoliberal globalization would hollow out trade unions, undermine state protections, and place national working classes in competition with one another for scarce jobs. This movement questioned the supposed fixity of labor within the national context, and asserted that unions are forging a new frontier within an old tradition—global unions for the global age. Given that scholars have overlooked many details regarding the increasing tendency of labor politics to “go global,” the book examines how transnational campaigns empower or inspire local movements. In addition, the campaigns studied are inspired by global priorities and yet have empowered local struggles.
Pamela M. Greenwood and Raja Parasuraman
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262017145
- eISBN:
- 9780262301336
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262017145.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter focuses on the economic and social implications of global aging in both developed and developing countries, and defines cognitive aging, which is thought to be the main reason for the ...
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This chapter focuses on the economic and social implications of global aging in both developed and developing countries, and defines cognitive aging, which is thought to be the main reason for the economic and social implications. However, studies have revealed that cognitive decline in old age is not universal, and that there is retention of plasticity in the aging brain. The chapter discusses the effects of Alzheimer’s disease on memory, attention, and visuospatial functioning and states the importance of studying cognitive aging while keeping the disease in mind. The importance of screening for signs of dementia in older adults is discussed.Less
This chapter focuses on the economic and social implications of global aging in both developed and developing countries, and defines cognitive aging, which is thought to be the main reason for the economic and social implications. However, studies have revealed that cognitive decline in old age is not universal, and that there is retention of plasticity in the aging brain. The chapter discusses the effects of Alzheimer’s disease on memory, attention, and visuospatial functioning and states the importance of studying cognitive aging while keeping the disease in mind. The importance of screening for signs of dementia in older adults is discussed.
Frederick Cooper
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807833452
- eISBN:
- 9781469604558
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807895344_baca.5
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter discusses the two problems with the concept of globalization, first the “global,” and second the “-ization.” The implication of the first is that a system of connection has penetrated ...
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This chapter discusses the two problems with the concept of globalization, first the “global,” and second the “-ization.” The implication of the first is that a system of connection has penetrated the entire globe, and the implication of the second is that it is doing so now, that this is the global age. There are certainly those, not least of them the advocates of unrestricted capital flow, who claim that the world should be open to them, but that does not mean that they have got their way. Many critics of market tyranny, social democrats who lament the alleged decline of the nation-state, and people who see the eruption of particularism as a counter-reaction to market homogenization, give the boasts of the globalizers too much credibility. Crucial questions do not get asked: about the limits of interconnection, about the areas where capital cannot go, and about the specificity of the structures necessary to make connections work.Less
This chapter discusses the two problems with the concept of globalization, first the “global,” and second the “-ization.” The implication of the first is that a system of connection has penetrated the entire globe, and the implication of the second is that it is doing so now, that this is the global age. There are certainly those, not least of them the advocates of unrestricted capital flow, who claim that the world should be open to them, but that does not mean that they have got their way. Many critics of market tyranny, social democrats who lament the alleged decline of the nation-state, and people who see the eruption of particularism as a counter-reaction to market homogenization, give the boasts of the globalizers too much credibility. Crucial questions do not get asked: about the limits of interconnection, about the areas where capital cannot go, and about the specificity of the structures necessary to make connections work.
Robert I. Moore
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198732259
- eISBN:
- 9780191796562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732259.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
The idea of a ‘middle age’ c.500–1500 CE carries little conviction today among European historians and is not readily applicable to other parts of the world. The transformations of c.1000–1200 CE now ...
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The idea of a ‘middle age’ c.500–1500 CE carries little conviction today among European historians and is not readily applicable to other parts of the world. The transformations of c.1000–1200 CE now appear epochal. They rested, however, on sustained agrarian intensification throughout Eurasia which laid the foundations of enduring city life, with sufficient resilience to withstand in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries a series of linked catastrophes markedly resembling those which had brought about the collapse of the ancient world, and currently threaten the modern. The sources of the resilience developed in the Age of Global Intensification, c.500–1500, offer a field of study with attractions comparable to those which made the Middle Ages essential to the establishment of History as a modern academic discipline.Less
The idea of a ‘middle age’ c.500–1500 CE carries little conviction today among European historians and is not readily applicable to other parts of the world. The transformations of c.1000–1200 CE now appear epochal. They rested, however, on sustained agrarian intensification throughout Eurasia which laid the foundations of enduring city life, with sufficient resilience to withstand in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries a series of linked catastrophes markedly resembling those which had brought about the collapse of the ancient world, and currently threaten the modern. The sources of the resilience developed in the Age of Global Intensification, c.500–1500, offer a field of study with attractions comparable to those which made the Middle Ages essential to the establishment of History as a modern academic discipline.
Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780986497339
- eISBN:
- 9781786944511
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780986497339.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Maritime History
This chapter analyses the role of Armenian maritime merchants in ushering in the ‘First Global Age’ of maritime history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It explores transoceanic ...
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This chapter analyses the role of Armenian maritime merchants in ushering in the ‘First Global Age’ of maritime history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It explores transoceanic navigation systems and overseas trade; the desire for silk and the Armenian-European silk trade; and the activities of Armenian shipowners and their role on the global stage. It discovers that Armenian merchants played a crucial role in global trade, and that their activity defies the prevalent misconception that global maritime history is intrinsically European in nature.Less
This chapter analyses the role of Armenian maritime merchants in ushering in the ‘First Global Age’ of maritime history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It explores transoceanic navigation systems and overseas trade; the desire for silk and the Armenian-European silk trade; and the activities of Armenian shipowners and their role on the global stage. It discovers that Armenian merchants played a crucial role in global trade, and that their activity defies the prevalent misconception that global maritime history is intrinsically European in nature.
Isabella Lazzarini (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- June 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198731641
- eISBN:
- 9780191919787
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198731641.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
Of all the sub-periods in which European medieval history has been divided over time, the later middle ages is possibly the one on which the burden of past and current grand narratives weighs the ...
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Of all the sub-periods in which European medieval history has been divided over time, the later middle ages is possibly the one on which the burden of past and current grand narratives weighs the most. Its chronological and geopolitical boundaries are in fact shaped by a heavy narrative of decline or transition, and consequently this period is often interpreted through the lenses of previous or following developments, becoming in turn the tail-end of the ‘feudal’, ‘communal’, ‘imperial versus papal’ era or the announcement of modernity. There is therefore an urgent need to revise and rewrite the story of the later Middle Ages, and in order to do so, to forge new critical and technical vocabularies not derived from the study of other periods. By adopting a conscious approach towards temporal and spatial variety, and by breaking the traditional and unitary narrative of decline and transition into one of many changes and continuities, this book charts the principal developments of late medieval Europe while opening up to different political cultures and societies, throwing new light on older concepts, and revealing analogies and differences with other geopolitical contexts. Including maps, illustrations, a detailed chronology and a rich range of reading suggestions, this book aims at providing a first introduction to a very complex, dynamic, and fascinating period for Europe and beyond.Less
Of all the sub-periods in which European medieval history has been divided over time, the later middle ages is possibly the one on which the burden of past and current grand narratives weighs the most. Its chronological and geopolitical boundaries are in fact shaped by a heavy narrative of decline or transition, and consequently this period is often interpreted through the lenses of previous or following developments, becoming in turn the tail-end of the ‘feudal’, ‘communal’, ‘imperial versus papal’ era or the announcement of modernity. There is therefore an urgent need to revise and rewrite the story of the later Middle Ages, and in order to do so, to forge new critical and technical vocabularies not derived from the study of other periods. By adopting a conscious approach towards temporal and spatial variety, and by breaking the traditional and unitary narrative of decline and transition into one of many changes and continuities, this book charts the principal developments of late medieval Europe while opening up to different political cultures and societies, throwing new light on older concepts, and revealing analogies and differences with other geopolitical contexts. Including maps, illustrations, a detailed chronology and a rich range of reading suggestions, this book aims at providing a first introduction to a very complex, dynamic, and fascinating period for Europe and beyond.
