Global Restructuring State Capital And Labour

Download or read book Global Restructuring, State, Capital and Labour written by A. Bieler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It analyzes globalization as a process of state formation and argues that its fate depends on the neo-liberal recomposition of labour relations. .

Download or read book Global Restructuring and Territorial Development written by Jeffrey William Henderson and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book provide the elements for a new theory of spatial development to explain the new socio-territorial reality produced by global restructuring in the 1970s and 1980s. The contributors all account for the contemporary territorial units by focusing on global economic dynamics and the history of particular places. The book looks at restructuring in the automobile and electronics industries; the significance of migrant labour and the informal economy; the consequences of female proletarianization in Southeast Asia; the implications for regional development of the incorporation of Mexico and Malaysia in the world economy; the internationalization of commercial capital and the development of financial centres;

Download or read book Global Restructuring, State, Capital & Labour written by Andreas Bieler and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It draws out the differences of how class struggle is understood as well as the common concern for understanding the historical specificity of capitalism and process of state formation, through a focus on the social relations of production and labour.

Download or read book Global Restructuring and the Power of Labour written by Bill Dunn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Dunn considers and contests accounts of globalization and post-Fordism that see structural economic change in the late Twentieth-century as having fundamentally worsened the conditions and weakened the potential of labour. Including a comparative survey of restructuring in four major industries; automobiles, construction, microelectronics and finance, the book suggests the timing of change and its complex and contradictory nature undermine structural explanations of labour's situation. It redirects attention towards labour's political defeats and own institutional shortcomings.

Download or read book The Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry written by Anthony D'Costa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon case studies of the steel industry in the US, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and India, this book explains how and why the steel industry has shifted from advanced capitalist countries to late industrializing countries. Anthony P. D'Costa examines the relationship between industrial change and institutional responses to technological diffu

Download or read book Gramsci and Global Politics written by Mark McNally and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains and assesses the relevance of the ideas of Gramsci. It takes his core concepts and uses them to analyse features of present-day politics and assess the extent to which his ideas can aid the understanding of the contemporary political world.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of International Relations written by Christian Reus-Smit and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Oxford Handbook assembles the world's leading scholars in International Relations to present diverse perspectives about purposes, questions, theories, and methods. It will become the first point of reference for scholars and students interested in these key issues.