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Globalization And Raw Materials-Based Development: The Case Of The Aluminum Industry, Paul Ciccantell
Globalization And Raw Materials-Based Development: The Case Of The Aluminum Industry, Paul Ciccantell
Paul Ciccantell
Current popular and scholarly analyses of the process of globalization often assume that this is a new phenomenon and that it operates in the same manner across all sectors of the economy. This paper argues that precisely the opposite is true: globalization is a longstanding process that exhibits distinct characteristics in different industries and different time periods. The analytic strategy to examine this process is historically grounded in the aluminum industry, one of the pioneers of the process of globalization. This paper analyzes the changing nature of the process of globalization in the aluminum industry, focusing attention on the articulation …