The Trajectory of Change charts a course for the growing, international movement against corporate globalization. Michael Albert, a longtime activist and analyst of popular struggles, challenges the movement to appeal to "ordinary people" by demonstrating how their lives are negatively affected by creeping corporatism. He connects issues confronting working people in the United States (access to health care, declining wages, and unemployment) to a critique of institutions that dominate the global economy and argues for strategies based on civil disobedience and protest rather than vandalism or violence.