List of Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; S.McBride & J.Wiseman PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES What is Globalization; G.Teeple The Politics of Globalization and Labour Strategies; S.McBride PART II: POLITICAL AGENCY AND THE INSTRUMENTS OF GLOBALIZATION Globalization as Discipline: The Case of Australia and International Finance; D.Bryan & M.Rafferty Creating the Institutions of the Global Economy? Central Bank Independence in Japan and Italy; B.MacLean, A.Croci & P.Bowles The Right Thing: Globalization and the Policy Process: A Case Study; R.Watts International Financial Institutions, International Capital Flows and Financial Liberalization in Developing Countries; J.Busumtwi-Sam Benchmarking, Global Best Practice and Production Renorming in the Australian Coal Industry: The Impact of Globalization; B.Bowden & B.Russell PART III: CONTRADICTIONS AND AMBIGUITIES Global Markets and State Power: Explaining the Limited Impact of International Tax Competition; M.Webb The Making of the Citizen Self and Citizen Other: Canada's Non-Immigrant Employment Authorization Program; N.Sharma Globalization and Cross-Border People Movements: The Case of Recent Revisions in U.S. Immigration Legislation; T.Cohn The ICFTU Labour Clause Proposal: A Legal and Political Critique; M.Swenarchuk A 'Double Movement': Implications of Globalization and Pluralization for the Canadian Welfare State; J.Rice & M.Prince PART IV: CRISIS, LEVELS OF ACTION AND ALTERNATIVES Economic Turmoil in Asia: A Crisis of Globalization; J.Price Rethinking Global Strategies; M.G.Cohen Alternatives to Oppressive Globalization; J.Wiseman Index