Explores the way writers address the formation and fate of the contemporary American working class in an age of neoliberal globalization. Specifically, the essay examines Russell Banks's 1985 novel Continental Drift, which interweaves the stories of two characters who pull up stakes and head to Florida in search of a better life: an oil furnace repair man from New Hampshire and a young, single mother from Haiti.
Argues that the architecture of the world monetary-financial sphere should be changed by reforming the Jamaica world monetary system and establishing a more transparent and sustainable mechanism for the transborder movement of capital. K. Cargill