Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production

Edited by Kees van der Pijl, Fellow, Centre for Global Political Economy and Professor, University of Sussex, UK

• Contents: Introduction: The World of Production and Political EconomyKees van der PijlAcknowledgementsTable of Contents PART I RESTRUCTURING THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMYIntroduction to Part I1. Labour, War and World Politics: Contemporary Dynamics in World-Historical PerspectiveBeverly J. Silver2. Rethinking Production, Finance and Hegemonic Decline in IPE Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin3. Innovation Policies and the Competition State–The Case of Nanotechnology Joscha Wullweber4. The Political Economy of Global Labour Arbitrage Raúl Delgado Wise and David T. Martin5. Apple’s iPad City: Subcontracting Exploitation to China Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai and Mark Selden6. The Grapes of Wrath. Social Upgrading and Class Struggles in Global Value Chains Benjamin Selwyn 7. Global Outsourcing and Socialisation of Labour–the Case of Nike Jeroen Merk 8. Standardizing Services: Transnational Authority and Market Power Jean-Christophe Graz9. Encumbered Behemoth: Wal-Mart, Differential Accumulation and International Retail Restructuring Joseph Baines 10. Beyond the BRICS—New Patterns of Development Cooperation in the Trans-Eurasian Corridor Yury GromykoPART II. LABOUR AND THE POLITICS OF WORKIntroduction to Part II11. Look Back in Hope? Reassessing Fordism TodayRadhika Desai 12. Paternalism, Taylorism, Socialism: The Battle for Production in the Chilean Textile Industry 1930-1973 Adam Fishwick13. Trasformismo and the Defeat of the Left in Italy Davide Bradanini14. Flexibilization of Labour in the European Union Otto Holman 15. Globalization and Japanese-style Management: Image and Changing Reality Ryoji Ihara16. Work, Power and the Urban Poor. Jeffrey Harrod17. Unfreedom and Workers’ Power: Ever-present PossibilitiesSiobhán McGrath and Kendra Strauss18. The Race to the Bottom Halted? Passive Revolution and Workers’ Resistance in China Youngseok Jang and Kevin Gray19. Bargaining in the Global Commodity Chain–The Asian Floor Wage Alliance Anannya Bhattacharjee and Ashim Roy20. Twilight of the Machinocrats: Creative Industries, Design, and the Future of Human Labour Alan FreemanAppendix to Part II: Current Networks of Radical Labour ResearchÖrsan Şenalp and Mehmet Gürsan ŞenalpPART III. PRODUCTION, REPRODUCTION, NATUREIntroduction to Part III21. Tracking Bodies, the ‘Quantified Self’ and the Corporeal Turn Phoebe Moore22. Production in Everyday Life: Poetics and ProsaicsMatt Davies23. Automobility: Culture, (Re-)Production, and Sustainability Matthew Paterson 24. Risk Capitalism, Crisis of Socialisation, and Loss of Civilisation 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 Boyer27. Alternatives to Agribusiness: Agro-ecology and the Peasant PrincipleSylvia Kay28. Strategies of a Green Economy, Contours of a Green Capitalism Ulrich Brand and Markus WissenConclusion: Emergent Predatory LogicsSaskia SassenIndex