Critics

Critics

Some people who are labeled "anti-globalist" or "sceptics" (Hirst and Thompson consider the term to be too vague and inaccurate Podobnik states that "the vast majority of groups that participate in these protests draw on international networks of support, and they generally call for forms of globalization that enhance democratic representation, human rights, and egalitarianism."

Anti-globalization" can involve the process or actions taken by a state or its people in order to demonstrate its sovereignty and practice democratic decision-making. Anti-globalization may occur in order to maintain barriers to the international transfer of people, goods and beliefs, particularlyderegulation, encouraged by business organizations and organizations such as the or the . Moreover, as  argues in her book  anti-globalism can denote either a single  that encompasses a number of separate social movementssuch as and socialists. In either case, participants stand in opposition to the unregulated political power of large, multi-national corporations, as the corporations exercise power through leveraging trade agreements which in some instances create unemployment, and damage the  rights of citizens^[, the and  as well as national government's sovereignty to determineincluding the right to form a union, and health and safety legislation, or laws as they may otherwise infringe on cultural practices and traditions of ^. or an  particularly