Whose Trade Organization?: Corporate Globalization And The Erosion Of Democracy

corporate globalization and the erosion of democracy : an assessment of the World Trade Organization

Plot

Whose Trade Organization is a ground-breaking book which documents the five year record of the powerful World Trade Organization(WTO). Based on a year of intensive research, this book reviews the specific cases and outcomes that have made the WTO increasingly controversial worldwide. Not one public health, safety or environmental policy that has been challenged before the WTO has been upheld; all have been found to be "trade barriers," which must be eliminated. Most Americans are unaware that such decisions are being made behind closed doors at the WTO without the most basic due process guarantatees. Whose Trade Organization explores the implications of globalization on accountable, democratic governance by reviewing WTO rules and results regarding the environment; public health; food, workers and product safety; human and labor rights; and developed and developing nation economies.Whose Trade Organization was written to be accessible to the majority of people whose lives the WTO is now affecting.