Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production (Handbooks of Research on International Political Economy series)

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 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 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, . enalp, W. Seppmann, B.J. Silver, K. Strauss, M. Wissen, J. Wullweber 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 labour supply after the opening up of the planned economies in Europe and Asia has sharply tilted the balance of power towards giant corporations. Labour and the politics of work is analysed in a number of key countries. Possible signs of a recovery of organized labour'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 labour and human rights sphere, politicians and journalists 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 activ 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