Review Essays

Recently Received Books: Globalization, Labor & Economic Rights

 

Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka

Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone:
Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka

By Sandya Hewamanne

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 287pp.

* Cross-listed in Women, Children & Gender
Regional Focus on Asia

Human Rights and Foreign Aid: For Love or Money?

Human Rights and Foreign Aid:
For Love or Money?

By Bethany Barratt

New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. 239pp.

* Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History

The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream

The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity
and the Decline of the American Dream

By Jacob S. Hacker

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008. 250pp.

The Price of Racial Reconciliation

The Price of Racial Reconciliation
By Ronald W. Walters

Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press. 2008. 249pp.

*Cross-listed in Refugees & Displaced Persons

Privacy: The Lost Right

Privacy: The Lost Right
By Jon L. Mills

New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2008. 391pp.

*Cross-listed in International Law & Ethics

Securing Privacy in the Internet Age

Securing Privacy in the Internet Age
Edited by Anupam Chander, Lauren Gelman & Margaret Jane Radin

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2008. 376pp.

* Cross-listed in International Law & Ethics

The International Struggle for New Human Rights

The International Struggle for New Human Rights
Edited by Clifford Bob

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. 194pp.

*Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History
& International Law & Ethics

A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery

A Crime So Monstrous:
Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery

By E. Benjamin Skinner

New York, NY: Free Press. 2008. 330pp.

*Cross-listed in Refugees & Displaced Persons

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
By Siddharth Kara

New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 2009. 298pp.

*Cross-listed in Women, Children & Gender

Sexual Enslavement of Girls and Women Worldwide

Sexual Enslavement of Girls and Women Worldwide
By Andrea Parrot & Nina Cummings

Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. 2008. 177pp.

*Cross-listed in Women, Children & Gender

Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements

Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics,
Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements

Edited by Pedro Pitarch, Shannon Speed & Xochitl Leyva Solano

Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2008. 377pp.

* Cross-listed in Regional: Latin America

Democracy, Economy, and Conservatism: Political and Economic Freedoms and Their Antithesis in the Third Millennium Volume 2

Democracy, Economy, and Conservatism: Political and Economic
Freedoms and Their Antithesis in the Third Millennium
Volume 2

By Milan Zafirovski

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2009. 448pp.

*Cross-listed in Development, Democracy & Health

Is the Sacred for Sale? Tourism and Indigenous Peoples

Is the Sacred for Sale?: Tourism and Indigenous Peoples
By Alison M. Johnston

London, UK: Earthscan. 2006. 381pp.

*Cross-listed in Development, Democracy & Health

Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders

Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders
By Adam M. McKeown

New York , NY: Columbia University Press. 2008. 450pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Asia

The Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibilities

The Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibilities
By Radu Mares

Leiden , The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 2008. 370pp.

*Cross-listed in Development, Democracy & Health

The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today

The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and
Slavery in America Today

By Kevin Bales & Ron Soodalter

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2009. 312pp.

*Cross-listed in Refugees & Displaced Persons

Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China

Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual
Property Rights in China

By Martin K. Dimitrov

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 2009. 307pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Asia

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