Exploring a wide range of issues, from the integration of the world economy to how contemporary processes are shaping and shaped by nation- states and how workers are organizing transnationally in response to transformations in the planet#s economic geography, Geographies of Globalization is a critical examination of what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world. Challenges neoliberal assumptions on the nature of globalization Provides a conceptual overview of how globalization is a spatial process and of its relation to capitalism Explores whether we are in fact living in a more #globalized# world or only in a more #internationalized# one Considers arguments concerning whether #globalization# is a new phenomenon or simply the latest manifestation of processes many hundreds of years in the making Focuses on how nation-states have shaped, and been shaped by, contemporary processes of #globalization#, how #globalization# has been imagined discursively, and how workers are responding to such processes Explores how workers are creating new organizing strategies in response to #globalization#