{"product_id":"the-global-trap-9781856495301","title":"The Global Trap","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hans-Peter Martin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: International Relations - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary book explores the spread of globalization. The authors - journalists on Der Spiegel - provide an account that is highly informed, yet extremely readable. They show how internationalism, once an invention of social-democratic labour leaders, has firmly changed sides. Now more than 40,000 transnational corporation play off their own workers - and different nation-states - against one another. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book opens with a fly-on-the-wall account of a seminar attended by the leaders of major corporations. It revealed that the biggest manufacturers are not simply shifting production away from the industrial countries, but foresee a new century where their labour needs will plummet. Talk at the gathering was all about the 20:80 society, where 20 per cent of the population will suffice to keep the world economy going and the unemployed 80 per cent will be pacified by a diet of 'tittytainment' - ie the modern equivalent of bread and circuses but without nearly so much bread. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCalling for the restoration of the primacy of politics over the economy and the repair of the state before it is too late, this book is a a cry of alarm. Currently being translated into 13 languages, The Global Trap is set to become an international bestseller; it cannot be ignored.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45087140151447,"sku":"9781856495301","price":3210.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781856495301.webp?v=1767266506","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-global-trap-9781856495301","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}