Its author has assembled evidence to back her case although I disagree with her conclusions

Its author has assembled evidence to back her case, although I disagree with her conclusions. She also writes intriguingly about the cultural imperialism of the global corporation, and with particular bitterness about US giants such as McDonald's. Hardly anybody ever fusses about non-US multinationals, nor do campaigners fret about the fact that consumers the world over flock to buy the big US brands - and the reasons are precisely cultural. As Klein notes, the dominance of brands poses a problem of self-definition for her generation of radicals. Sure, the new jobs are not in factories, but half of them have been well-paid professional posts.Still, this book is a cut above other anti-globalisation manifestos. I find it bizarre that somebody can claim that there is a serious problem of job losses in the United States when unemployment is at its lowest for a generation. This does not mean it is not worth campaigning for better conditions, but let us welcome the fact that poorer countries are getting jobs.So there is a romanticism in the anti-capitalist movement that blinds it to how economies create jobs and improve living standards.

One of the great benefits of growth in the industrialised world is that so few of us have to work in factories any more.Equally, one of the fruits of growth in the developing world is that manufacturing jobs are being created Anything is better than desperate rural poverty. As Naomi Klein notes: "The management is military style, the supervisors often abusive, the wages below subsistence and the work.. tedious." This contradiction is sensible politics. It means the nascent movement can make common cause with unions in the developed nations and campaigners in the developing ones But it is worrying. It suggests a deep ignorance about what it is like to work in a factory anywhere Nowhere is it anything less than dull and dangerous. Their loss, and the closure of plants as companies ship production to cheaper places, is to be contested On the other, factory jobs in developing countries are bad.

tedious." There is a contradiction at the heart of the growing opposition to global capitalism - a movement emerging as the protest of choice for today's generation of North American student radicals, and championed in this book by a Canadian journalist It concerns the nature of work. On the one hand, factory jobs in the US and other developed countries are good. On the one hand, factory jobs in the US and other developed countries are good. Their loss, and the closure of plants as companies ship production to cheaper places, is to be contested On the other, factory jobs in developing countries are bad. As Naomi Klein notes: "The management is military style, the supervisors often abusive, the wages below subsistence and the work... All readers are advised to gargle before opening their mouths, then continue to breathe deeply for as long as the pain lasts.The TS Eliot Prize will be awarded on 17 Jan. There is a contradiction at the heart of the growing opposition to global capitalism - a movement emerging as the protest of choice for today's generation of North American student radicals, and championed in this book by a Canadian journalist It concerns the nature of work.

Her new book, The World's Wife, has a bite and an energy that makes the others seem tame. "I've been staring at this bloody wonderful wall all evening. I don't know whether it's artificial or not, but it looks pretty real to me..." It was real, and so was the occasion.This year, it's Carol Ann Duffy's turn to curse that wall, alongside two North Americans (Canadian Anne Carson and CK Williams from the US), three Irishmen (Tom Paulin, Bernard O'Donoghue and Paul Durcan), one Anglo-German (Michael Hofmann), one Scotswoman (Kathleen Jamie) and a couple of Englishmen, Hugo Williams and Michael Laskey.Duffy looks the likely winner. Knowing his surnamedoomed him to perform last, he had got himself sensibly lubricated, and, having staggered on to the stage, spent a few moments addressing, Bottom-like, the wall which he'd been staring at for an hour and a half. Don Paterson performed magnificently two years ago but he had the luck to be a practised jazz musician used to dealing with audiences who are half-turned the other way. That same year, Jamie McKendrick was in a state of torture, barely able to speak, desperate for some throat-soothing drop of water to lubricate his voice We felt for him We urged him with our hearts and eyes to read Ozymandias Last year, Ken Smith had the right idea.