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The true cost of low prices : the violence of globalization / Vincent A. Gallagher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2006.Description: x, 166 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1570756694 (pbk.)
  • 9781570756696 (pbk.)
  • 9781570756696
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3
LOC classification:
  • HF 1413 G162t 2006
Contents:
Awakening to the hidden violence -- Neocolonialism: the search for the most desperate workers -- International financial institutions: instruments of development or violence? -- How the poor suffer -- Do the World Bank and IMF help or hinder? -- Keeping unfair structures in place -- The uses of slaves in the global economy -- The politics of food -- Women and children are hurt the most -- Violence against Latino workers in El Salvador and the United States -- The need for a theology that liberates -- Awakening to the reality of suffering -- How we can respond -- Epilogue: If only you knew.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HF 1413 G162t 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000109627

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158) and index.

Awakening to the hidden violence -- Neocolonialism: the search for the most desperate workers -- International financial institutions: instruments of development or violence? -- How the poor suffer -- Do the World Bank and IMF help or hinder? -- Keeping unfair structures in place -- The uses of slaves in the global economy -- The politics of food -- Women and children are hurt the most -- Violence against Latino workers in El Salvador and the United States -- The need for a theology that liberates -- Awakening to the reality of suffering -- How we can respond -- Epilogue: If only you knew.

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