DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIESIs There a Global Ruling Class
with
Dr. Leslie Sklair, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics
from 3.00 - 5.00pm on Thursday 16 October 2003
in the Annexe, Dept. of Sociology, UCC
Dr. Leslie Sklair’s current research concerns ‘Globalization and the FORTUNE Global 500’, based on over 70 interviews with major corporations around the world within a theoretical framework that recasts the relationship between global capitalism, classes, consumerism and the state. His publications include Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives, Oxford University Press (2002) and The Transnational Capitalist Class, Blackwell (2001). He was a consultant to the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations in New York, the ILO in Geneva, the US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, and the UN Economic Commission on Latin America in Mexico City.
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