Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production by Kees van der Pi

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The Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the changing world of global production.

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The Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the changing world of global production. The book explores the topic in a range of directions, including the human material 'used' in production across the globe and alternatives proposed from different quarters.Chapters cover the geography of why and where jobs are moving in both manufacturing and services. The doubling of the world's available labor supply after the opening up of the planned economies in Europe and Asia has sharply tilted the balance of power towards giant corporations. Labor and the politics of work is analyzed in a number of key countries. Possible signs of a recovery of organized labor's negotiating power on this vastly expanded playing field are discussed in separate chapters, and a complete overview is provided of labour research networks currently active. This important volume addresses topics relating to the human and natural basis on which production rests, from the consequences of the exploitation of the body and mind to sex work, biotechnology, and the prospects for ecological re-balancing.Written by a team of authors from fourteen different countries and comprising some of the biggest names in contemporary social science as well as topical specialists, this Handbook will prove a critical resource to political economists at all levels, trade unionists and NGO activists in the labor and human rights sphere, politicians and journalists.Contributors: J. Baines, A. Bhattacharjee, M. Boyer, D. Bradanini, U. Brand, J. Chan, C.B.N. Chin, M. Davies, R. Delgado Wise, R. Desai, A. Fishwick, A. Freeman, S. Gindin, K. Gray, J.-C. Graz, Y. Gromyko, J. Harrod, O. Holman, R. Ihara, Y. Jang, S. Kay, D.T. Martin, S. McGrath, J. Merk, P. Moore, L. Panitch, M. Paterson, N. Pun, A. Roy, S. Sassen, M. Selden, B. Selwyn, G.M. enalp, Ö. enalp, W. Seppmann, B.J. Silver, K. Strauss, M. Wissen, J. Wullweber

Author Biography

Edited by Kees van der Pijl, Fellow, Centre for Global Political Economy and Professor Emeritus, University of Sussex, UK

Table of Contents

Contents:Introduction: The World of Production and Political EconomyKees van der PijlAcknowledgementsTable of ContentsPART I RESTRUCTURING THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMYIntroduction to Part I1. Labour, War and World Politics: Contemporary Dynamics in World-Historical PerspectiveBeverly J. Silver2. Rethinking Production, Finance and Hegemonic Decline in IPELeo Panitch and Sam Gindin3. Innovation Policies and the Competition State–The Case of NanotechnologyJoscha Wullweber4. The Political Economy of Global Labour ArbitrageRaúl Delgado Wise and David T. Martin5. Apple's iPad City: Subcontracting Exploitation to ChinaJenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden6. The Grapes of Wrath. Social Upgrading and Class Struggles in Global Value ChainsBenjamin Selwyn7. Global Outsourcing and Socialisation of Labour–the Case of NikeJeroen Merk8. Standardizing Services: Transnational Authority and Market PowerJean-Christophe Graz9. Encumbered Behemoth: Wal-Mart, Differential Accumulation and International Retail RestructuringJoseph Baines10. Beyond the BRICS—New Patterns of Development Cooperation in the Trans-Eurasian CorridorYury GromykoPART II. LABOUR AND THE POLITICS OF WORKIntroduction to Part II11. Look Back in Hope? Reassessing Fordism TodayRadhika Desai12. Paternalism, Taylorism, Socialism: The Battle for Production in the Chilean Textile Industry 1930-1973Adam Fishwick13. Trasformismo and the Defeat of the Left in ItalyDavide Bradanini14. Flexibilization of Labour in the European UnionOtto Holman15. Globalization and Japanese-style Management: Image and Changing RealityRyoji Ihara16. Work, Power and the Urban Poor.Jeffrey Harrod17. Unfreedom and Workers' Power: Ever-present PossibilitiesSiobhán McGrath and Kendra Strauss18. The Race to the Bottom Halted? Passive Revolution and Workers' Resistance in ChinaYoungseok Jang and Kevin Gray19. Bargaining in the Global Commodity Chain–The Asian Floor Wage AllianceAnannya Bhattacharjee and Ashim Roy20. Twilight of the Machinocrats: Creative Industries, Design, and the Future of Human LabourAlan FreemanAppendix to Part II: Current Networks of Radical Labour ResearchÖrsan enalp and Mehmet Gürsan enalpPART III. PRODUCTION, REPRODUCTION, NATUREIntroduction to Part III21. Tracking Bodies, the 'Quantified Self' and the Corporeal TurnPhoebe Moore22. Production in Everyday Life: Poetics and ProsaicsMatt Davies23. Automobility: Culture, (Re-)Production, and SustainabilityMatthew Paterson24. Risk Capitalism, Crisis of Socialisation, and Loss of CivilisationWerner Seppmann25. Servicing the World: Women, Transnational Migration and Sex Work in a Neoliberal EraChristine B. N. Chin26. Molecular Biotechnologies: Insights on Production through the Lens of ReproductionMiriam Boyer27. Alternatives to Agribusiness: Agro-ecology and the Peasant PrincipleSylvia Kay28. Strategies of a Green Economy, Contours of a Green CapitalismUlrich Brand and Markus WissenConclusion: Emergent Predatory LogicsSaskia SassenIndex

Details ISBN1783470208 Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd ISBN-10 1783470208 ISBN-13 9781783470204 Publication Date 2015-01-30 Pages 736 Language English Year 2015 Format Hardcover Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2015-01-30 NZ Release Date 2015-01-30 UK Release Date 2015-01-30 Author Kees van der Pijl Series Handbooks of Research on International Political Economy series Edited by Kees van der Pijl DEWEY 330.122 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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