Contents:
Introduction: The World of Production and Political Economy
Kees van der Pijl
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
PART I RESTRUCTURING THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Introduction to Part I
1. Labour, War and World Politics: Contemporary Dynamics in
World-Historical Perspective
Beverly J. Silver
2. Rethinking Production, Finance and Hegemonic Decline in IPE
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
3. Innovation Policies and the Competition State–The Case of
Nanotechnology
Joscha Wullweber
4. The Political Economy of Global Labour Arbitrage
Raúl Delgado Wise and David T. Martin
5. Apple’s iPad City: Subcontracting Exploitation to China
Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden
6. The Grapes of Wrath. Social Upgrading and Class Struggles in
Global Value Chains
Benjamin Selwyn
7. Global Outsourcing and Socialisation of Labour–the Case of
Nike
Jeroen Merk
8. Standardizing Services: Transnational Authority and Market
Power
Jean-Christophe Graz
9. Encumbered Behemoth: Wal-Mart, Differential Accumulation and
International Retail Restructuring
Joseph Baines
10. Beyond the BRICS—New Patterns of Development Cooperation in the
Trans-Eurasian Corridor
Yury Gromyko
PART II. LABOUR AND THE POLITICS OF WORK
Introduction to Part II
11. Look Back in Hope? Reassessing Fordism Today
Radhika Desai
12. Paternalism, Taylorism, Socialism: The Battle for Production in
the Chilean Textile Industry 1930-1973
Adam Fishwick
13. Trasformismo and the Defeat of the Left in Italy
Davide Bradanini
14. Flexibilization of Labour in the European Union
Otto Holman
15. Globalization and Japanese-style Management: Image and Changing
Reality
Ryoji Ihara
16. Work, Power and the Urban Poor.
Jeffrey Harrod
17. Unfreedom and Workers’ Power: Ever-present Possibilities
Siobhán McGrath and Kendra Strauss
18. The Race to the Bottom Halted? Passive Revolution and Workers’
Resistance in China
Youngseok Jang and Kevin Gray
19. Bargaining in the Global Commodity Chain–The Asian Floor Wage
Alliance
Anannya Bhattacharjee and Ashim Roy
20. Twilight of the Machinocrats: Creative Industries, Design, and
the Future of Human Labour
Alan Freeman
Appendix to Part II: Current Networks of Radical Labour
Research
Örsan Şenalp and Mehmet Gürsan Şenalp
PART III. PRODUCTION, REPRODUCTION, NATURE
Introduction to Part III
21. Tracking Bodies, the ‘Quantified Self’ and the Corporeal
Turn
Phoebe Moore
22. Production in Everyday Life: Poetics and Prosaics
Matt Davies
23. Automobility: Culture, (Re-)Production, and Sustainability
Matthew Paterson
24. Risk Capitalism, Crisis of Socialisation, and Loss of
Civilisation
Werner Seppmann
25. Servicing the World: Women, Transnational Migration and Sex
Work in a Neoliberal Era
Christine B. N. Chin
26. Molecular Biotechnologies: Insights on Production through the
Lens of Reproduction
Miriam Boyer
27. Alternatives to Agribusiness: Agro-ecology and the Peasant
Principle
Sylvia Kay
28. Strategies of a Green Economy, Contours of a Green
Capitalism
Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen
Conclusion: Emergent Predatory Logics
Saskia Sassen
Index
Edited by Kees van der Pijl, Fellow, Centre for Global Political Economy and Professor Emeritus, University of Sussex, UK
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