University Press of Kansas Caught in the Net: Global Tuna Industry, Environmentalists and the State

Product Description This study uses the tuna-dolphin controversy arising from the 1973 Marine Mammal Protection Act to throw light on the increasing effects of globalisation on agricultural and food production. It shows how quite small groups can affect legislation that changes the way corporations do business. Review An extraordinary volume. Bonanno and Constance have succeeded in using the conflict over dolphins caught in tuna fishing nets to shed light on the transformation of the world economy that is underway--a complex struggle among labor, environmental groups, and transnational corporations over the forms that the new global economy will take, what technologies will be used, where factories will be located, and what powers nation-states will have. In short, they have synthesized and clarified the key debates of the decade. No one interested in the globalization of the world economy can afford to miss this book!-- Lawrence Busch, author of Plants, Power, and Profit: Social, Economic, and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies A compelling contribution to the debate over globalization. This book will be both influential and controversial. Each of its two parts--the review of regulation theory, the fordism-postfordism debate, and globalization, on the one hand, and the detailed treatment of the tuna-dolphin controversy, on the other--is by itself worth the price of admission.--William H. Friedland, author of Manufacturing Green Gold: Capital, Labor, and Technology in the Lettuce Industry This excellent book could become a benchmark for readers interested in the transformation of the State and global post-Fordism. First rate.--Louis Swanson, editor of Agricultural Policy and the EnvironmentThe authors make a convincing case that management of the world's ocean resources must take into account the economic realities of industry and the changing world economy.--The Northern Mariner From the Back Cover The assumed transformed character of the nation-state, its supposed weakening, its relationship with TNCs and other social factors such as the labor and environmental movements, and the overall relevance of the state in global post-Fordism are all foci of this book.