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855788
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Handbook of the international political economy of production /\ edited by Kees van der Pijl.
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| Publication Statement
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Cheltenham :: Edward Elgar Publishing,, [2015]
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| Series Statement
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Handbooks of research on international political economy series
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xxxviii, 683 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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1783470208
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: 9781783470204
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9781783470211
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Contents note continued: 10. Beyond the `BRICS': new patterns of development cooperation in the Trans-Eurasian corridor / Yury Gromyko -- pt. 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 / Da vide 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 / Kendra Strauss -- 18. The race to the bottom halted? Passive revolution and workers' resistance in China / Kevin Gray -- 19. Bargaining in the global commodity chain: the Asia Floor Wage Alliance / Ashim Roy.
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Contents note continued: 20. Twilight of the machinocrats: creative industries, design and the future of human labour / Alan Freeman -- Appendix to Pari II: transnational networks of radical labour research / Mehmet Gursan Senalp -- pt. 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 socialization and loss of civilization / 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.
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Contents note continued: 28. Strategies of a Green Economy, contours of a Green Capitalism / Markus Wissen.
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Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 / Sam Gindin -- 3. Innovation policies and the competition state: the case of nanotechnology / Joscha Wullweber -- 4. The political economy of global labour arbitrage / David T. Martin -- 5. Apple's iPad City: subcontracting exploitation to China / Mark Selden -- 6. The grapes of wrath: social upgrading and class struggles in global value chains / Benjamin Selwyn -- 7. Global outsourcing and socialization 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.
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| Abstract
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A comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the changing world of global production. It explores the topic in a range of directions, including the human material 'used' in production across the globe and alternatives proposed from different quarters.
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Production (Economic theory)
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83.42 international trade.
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Internationell ekonomi.
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Nationalekonomi.
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Politische Ökonomie
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Production (Economic theory)
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Produktion (ekonomi)
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Produktion
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| Dewey Classification
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338
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HB241
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83.42bcl
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| Added Entry
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Pijl, Kees van der
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