Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Figures......Page 8
Tables......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 20
Introduction: the world of production and political economy......Page 23
PART I RESTRUCTURING THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY......Page 39
Introduction to Part I: restructuring the global political economy......Page 41
1. Labour, war and world politics: contemporary dynamics in world historical perspective......Page 44
2. Rethinking production, finance and hegemonic decline in IPE......Page 61
3. Innovation policies and the competition state: the case of nanotechnology......Page 81
4. The political economy of global labour arbitrage......Page 97
5. Apple’s iPad City: subcontracting exploitation to China......Page 114
6. The grapes of wrath: social upgrading and class struggles in global value chains......Page 136
7. Global outsourcing and socialization of labour: the case of Nike......Page 153
8. Standardizing services: transnational authority and market power......Page 170
9. Encumbered behemoth: Wal-Mart, differential accumulation and international retail restructuring......Page 187
10. Beyond the ‘BRICS’: new patterns of development cooperation in the Trans-Eurasian corridor......Page 205
PART II LABOUR AND THE POLITICS OF WORK......Page 225
Introduction to Part II: labour and the politics of work......Page 227
11. Look back in hope? Reassessing Fordism today......Page 230
12. Paternalism, Taylorism, socialism: the Battle for Production in the Chilean textile industry, 1930–1973......Page 249
13. Trasformismo and the defeat of the Left in Italy......Page 267
14. Flexibilization of labour in the European Union......Page 285
15. Globalization and Japanese-style management: image and changing reality......Page 302
16. Work, power and the urban poor......Page 321
17. Unfreedom and workers’ power: ever-present possibilities......Page 337
18. The race to the bottom halted? Passive revolution and workers’ resistance in China......Page 356
19. Bargaining in the global commodity chain: the Asia Floor Wage Alliance......Page 372
20. Twilight of the machinocrats: creative industries, design and the future of human labour......Page 390
Appendix to Part II: transnational networks of radical labour research......Page 414
PART III PRODUCTION, REPRODUCTION, NATURE......Page 427
Introduction to Part III: production, reproduction, nature......Page 429
21. Tracking bodies, the ‘Quantified Self’, and the corporeal turn......Page 432
22. Production in everyday life: poetics and prosaics......Page 447
23. Automobility: culture, (re-)production and sustainability......Page 464
24. Risk capitalism, crisis of socialization and loss of civilization......Page 480
25. Servicing the world: women, transnational migration and sex work in a neoliberal era......Page 496
26. Molecular biotechnologies: insights on production through the lens of reproduction......Page 511
27. Alternatives to agribusiness: agro-ecology and the peasant principle......Page 528
28. Strategies of a Green Economy, contours of a Green Capitalism......Page 546
Conclusion: emergent predatory logics......Page 562
Bibliography......Page 580
Index......Page 689