Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production

Edited by Kees van der Pijl

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changing world of global production. Chapters cover the geography of why and where jobs are moving in both manufacturing and services. The authors discuss topics relating to the human and natural basis on which production rests, from the consequences of exploitation and marginalization on body and mind, to sex work, biotechnology, and the prospects for ecological re-balancing. This Handbook will appeal to academics at all levels interested in political economy, international studies and politics, as well as trade unionists and NGO activists.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B5 E12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
ISBN: 9781783470204
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Labour, war and world politics: contemporary dynamics in world-historical perspective , pp 6-22

Beverly J. Silver

Ch 2 Rethinking production, finance and hegemonic decline in IPE , pp 23-42

Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin

Ch 3 Innovation policies and the competition state: the case of nanotechnology , pp 43-58

Joscha Wullweber

Ch 4 The political economy of global labour arbitrage , pp 59-75

Raúl Delgado Wise and David T. Martin

Ch 5 Apple’s iPad City: subcontracting exploitation to China , pp 76-97

Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden

Ch 6 The grapes of wrath: social upgrading and class struggles in global value chains , pp 98-114

Benjamin Selwyn

Ch 7 Global outsourcing and socialization of labour: the case of Nike , pp 115-131

Jeroen Merk

Ch 8 Standardizing services: transnational authority and market power , pp 132-148

Jean-Christophe Graz

Ch 9 Encumbered behemoth: Wal-Mart, differential accumulation and international retail restructuring , pp 149-166

Joseph Baines

Ch 10 Beyond the ‘BRICS’: new patterns of development cooperation in the Trans-Eurasian corridor , pp 167-186

Yury Gromyko

Ch 11 Look back in hope? Reassessing Fordism today , pp 192-210

Radhika Desai

Ch 12 Paternalism, Taylorism, socialism: the Battle for Production in the Chilean textile industry, 1930–1973 , pp 211-228

Adam Fishwick

Ch 13 Trasformismo and the defeat of the Left in Italy , pp 229-246

Davide Bradanini

Ch 14 Flexibilization of labour in the European Union , pp 247-263

Otto Holman

Ch 15 Globalization and Japanese-style management: image and changing reality , pp 264-282

Ryoji Ihara

Ch 16 Work, power and the urban poor , pp 283-298

Jeffrey Harrod

Ch 17 Unfreedom and workers’ power: ever-present possibilities , pp 299-317

Siobhán McGrath and Kendra Strauss

Ch 18 The race to the bottom halted? Passive revolution and workers’ resistance in China , pp 318-333

Youngseok Jang and Kevin Gray

Ch 19 Bargaining in the global commodity chain: the Asia Floor Wage Alliance , pp 334-351

Anannya Bhattacharjee and Ashim Roy

Ch 20 Twilight of the machinocrats: creative industries, design and the future of human labour , pp 352-375

Alan Freeman

Ch 21 Tracking bodies, the ‘Quantified Self’, and the corporeal turn , pp 394-408

Phoebe Moore

Ch 22 Production in everyday life: poetics and prosaics , pp 409-425

Matt Davies

Ch 23 Automobility: culture, (re-)production and sustainability , pp 426-441

Matthew Paterson

Ch 24 Risk capitalism, crisis of socialization and loss of civilization , pp 442-457

Werner Seppmann

Ch 25 Servicing the world: women, transnational migration and sex work in a neoliberal era , pp 458-472

Christine B.N. Chin

Ch 26 Molecular biotechnologies: insights on production through the lens of reproduction , pp 473-489

Miriam Boyer

Ch 27 Alternatives to agribusiness: agro-ecology and the peasant principle , pp 490-507

Sylvia Kay

Ch 28 Strategies of a Green Economy, contours of a Green Capitalism , pp 508-523

Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen

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