Extractive Capitalism

An eye-opening survey of how extractive industries power globalisation-and how to fight back Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era, but the backbone of globalisation is still low-cost labour and rapacious corporate control. Extractive capitalism is what made and is still making our unequal world.