Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-259) and index.
Effective resistance to corporate globalization / Sandra Halperin and Gordon Laxer -- Global civil society and international protest : no swan song yet for the state / Jeffrey M. Ayres -- The dis-embedding and re-embedding of capital : lessons from history / Sandra Halperin -- 'Civil society' : critique and alternative / Lawrence Hamilton -- 'We are all Marcos'? Zapatismo, solidarity and the politics of scale / Josée Johnston -- 'Local' organizing and 'global' struggles : coalition-building for social justice in the Americas / Marie-Josée Massicotte -- Lessons from Mexico-US civil society coalitions / Jonathan Fox -- Limits to global civil society : gaps between western donors and Russian NGOs / Lisa Sundstrom -- The defeat of the multilateral agreement on investment : national movements confront globalism / Gordon Laxer -- Civil literacy in global civil society : excluding the majority from democratic participation / Henry Milner -- 'Globalization' and labour strategy : towards social movement unionism / İsmet Akça.