Research Resources

Basic Research | World Governance | Finance | Corporations | Labor NGOs
Trade and Commodity Tracking | Human Rights, Fair Trade and Anti-Corporatization Groups
Environmental NGOs | Famous Names | Debt Crisis | Media | Paul Farmer/Haiti/ Global Health

 

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Basic Research

UW Library Home Page
Lexis-Nexis
Expanded Academic Index
Online guide to using UW library resources from research on globalization
Maps of Global Patterns and Interconnections
Journal of World Systems Research (special issue on globalization that has great essays by Leslie Sklair, John Urry and many others)

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World Governance

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The World Bank
The Whirled Bank
World Trade Organization (WTO)
WTO History Project at UW
What's wrong with the WTO
Porto Allegre, Social Forum site (that has many other good links and papers)
John Pilger on Globalization and the 'New Rulers of the World'
Global Economic Justice
Alternatives for a better world
OECD
Third World Network
World Civil Society Forum
International Forum on Globalization

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Finance

Federal Reserve System Monitor
Susan George's website
Federal Reserve Board Policy

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Corporations

Corporate Watch
Directory of Corporations
Reebok
Nike
Oxfam's Nike Watch
Nike Wages / Educating for Justice
Nike Workers / Press for Change
Liz Claiborne
Starbucks
Tullys
Executive Pay Watch
Hoovers.com (provides online information on many businesses)

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Labor NGOs

Labour Start
Jobs With Justice
International Labor Organization
Workers Rights Organization
Campaign for Labor Rights
UNITE (US Union Site)
National Labor Committee
United Electrical Workers Intl. Solidarity

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Trade and Commodity Tracking

Public Citizen, Global Trade Watch site (has good material on WTO rulings and the downward harmonization effects of free trade)
Behind the Label (excellent material on sweat-shops and the politics surrounding them)
Maquila Solidarity Network
Co-Op America's Responsible Shopper Site
Clean Clothes Campaign

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Human Rights, Fair Trade and Anti-Corporatization Groups

Human Rights Watch and Women's Rights
Global Exchange (a VERY useful site developed by a human rights group that  promotes environmental, political, and social justice around the world).
United Students Against Sweatshops
Fair Labor Organization
Fair Trade Resource Network (provides support for student action campaigns)
Fair Trade Coffee
No Logo (Naomi Klein's own No Logo website with great interactive postings interface)
No Sweat (UK-based anti-sweat shop site)
United For a Fair Economy
Global Economic Justice
Third World Network

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Environmental NGOs

United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
Friends of the Earth
Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment (ASJE)
Greenpeace

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Debt Crisis Sites

Jubliee Plus (a great site with figures on debt country and useful analysis)
New Economics

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Famous Names Sites

Joseph Stiglitz's website
Paul Krugman's website
Jagdish Bhagwati's  web site
Susan George's website
Amartya Sen's web site

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Media and University Sites

Globalization Research Center
Globalization Research Network
Research Channel Program - Living in a Global World
Yale Global
Common Dreams
Dollars and Sense magazine

New Internationalist magazine
Tom Paine Internet Magazine
Left Business Observer
Independent Media Center
Institute for International Economics
Bridges Trade News Digest
Center for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization
Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at UW

 

Paul Farmer/ Haiti/ Global Health

UW's common book resource site
Interview with Paul Farmer and full free access to Ch. 1 of Pathologies of Power
Interview with Paul Farmer about the state of Haiti after the floods and US intervention of 2004
The London based Haiti Support Group
The World Bank website on Haiti
A critical antidote to the World Bank's view of Haiti
More critical commentary on behind the news developments in Haiti
Gapminder has some excellent graphic interfaces with which to view UNDP charts of inequality data
UW's own Population Health Forum


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