Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries

by Sarah Anderson (Editor), International Forum on Globalization (Compiler)

Ever since the "Baffle in Seattle", the World Trade Organization has been featured prominently in the news. For all their talk of being dedicated to the welfare of the Third World, the WTO has damaged the economies of several countries and encouraged the growth of labor markets that more closely resemble sweat shops. Third World activists/scholars Martin Knor, Walden Bello, Vandana Shiva, Dot Keet, Sara Larrain, and Oronto Douglas examine the effects of the WTO and provide alternative agendas geared towards people, not profits.Highlights include:
-- Demonstrations against globalization shut down the important World Trade Organization talks in Seattle last year;
-- Machinations of WTO reported on daily;
-- Jubilee 2000, the plan to cancel Third World debt, is gaining adherents and momemtum;
-- Alternative agendas argue for a WTO that is responsive to the needs of the Third World, or no WTO at all.

208 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2000

About the author

Sarah Anderson learned to knit at a very young age and has been hooked on the fiber crafts ever since. She taught herself to spin at 13, but it was not until 1992 that she became serious about her spinning. She developed a new technique she calls “wrap and roll,” which won her a cover on Spin Off magazine in 2008. She has taught at the Spin-Off Autumn Retreat (SOAR), contributed knit designs to All New Homespun and Handknit, and teaches at many venues. She lives near Snohomish, Washington.