| Description |
404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction: It's Not About Trade / Lori Wallach -- Ch. 1. The WTO's Environmental Impact: First, Gattzilla Ate Flipper -- Ch. 2. The WTO's Coming to Dinner, and Food Safety Is Not On the Menu -- Ch. 3. Warning: The WTO Can Be Hazardous to Public Health -- Ch. 4. The WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services: Perpetual Servitude -- Ch. 5. For Richer or Poorer: Facts and Fiction About Trade and Economic Gains in the Developed World -- Ch. 6. The WTO and the Developing World: Do As We Say, Not As We Did -- Annex / Martin Khor -- Ch. 7. The WTO on Agriculture: Food as a Commodity, Not a Right -- Ch. 8. Human and Labor Rights Under the WTO / Ashwini Sukthankar and Scott Nova -- Ch. 9. The WTO's Operating Procedures and Enforcement System: World Government by Slow-Motion Coup D'Etat -- Ch. 10. WTO and FTAA: Two Paths to the Same Disaster / Pablo Solon, Roberto Bissio and Timi Gerson -- Conclusion: Another World is Possible |
| Summary |
"Here is the definitive guide to the WTO. It reveals which WTO policies have led to U.S. job losses, the race to the bottom in wages, unsafe food, attacks on environmental and health laws, and burgeoning international inequality. Want to know why the WTO attracts passionate protests all over the world? Public Citizen advocates Wallach and Woodall carefully document the WTO's nine-year track record with riveting case-by-case accounts. And trade is the least of it: this book shows how the WTO chills government actions to fight sweatshops, make lifesaving drugs available, and protect endangered species - and even limits our elected governments' ability to maintain policies on everything from meat inspection to media concentration." "Whose Trade Organization? offers first steps toward a democratic, accountable alternative. It reminds us that change is not only necessary - it's possible."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Free trade |
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World Trade Organization |
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Globalisation |
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Economic development |
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Environmental impact |
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Food |
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Human rights |
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Public health |
| Notes |
"An earlier edition of this book was published by Public Citizen, Washington, D.C., 1999." |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, pages [293]-372 |
| Subject |
World Trade Organization.
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International trade -- Political aspects.
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World politics.
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| Author |
Woodall, Patrick.
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Public Citizen, inc.
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| LC no. |
2003060370 |
| ISBN |
1565848411 paperback |
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