The Global Trap

The Global Trap. The attack on democracy and prosperity is a nonfiction book by Harald Schumann ( born 1957 in Kassel, Germany ) and Hans -Peter Martin ( born 1957 in Bregenz, Austria ), which was published in 1996. At this point both authors were editors of the news magazine Der Spiegel. Since 1999, Hans -Peter Martin is a member of the European Parliament.

Content

The book deals mainly with the effects of globalization. It describes a growing social divide as a result of " delimitation " of the economy and a loss of state political control over the increasingly global corporations controlled economic development. The authors warn of a so-called " 20 -to -80 - society".

They describe how at a conference at the invitation of Mikhail Gorbachev with 500 leading politicians, business leaders and academics from all continents in 1995 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, the term Einfünftelgesellschaft arose. The authors describe an increase in productivity caused by the decrease in the amount of work, so this could be done by one-fifth of the global labor force and remained four-fifths of the working age people out of work. The authors predict a vast number of jobless.

Reception history of the book

The book was translated with over 800,000 copies sold to a worldwide bestseller now available in 27 languages ​​.