Richard Peet retired as Professor of Human Geography from the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, USA. He was the Editor of the radical geography journal, Antipode, from 1970 to 1985 and Co-Editor of Economic Geography between 1992 and 1998.

• 1. Introduction Part I: Industrial change and economic crisis 2. Industrial restructuring and the crisis of international capitalism Part II: Problems of decline in advanced capitalist countries 3. Introduction 4. The geography of class struggle and the relocation of United States manufacturing industry 5. The impact of private disinvestment on workers and their communities 6. The shape of things to come Part III: Contradictions of growth in advanced capitalist countries 7. Introduction 8. Blue-sky management: the Kawasaki story 9. Industrial restructuring: an analysis of social and spatial change in Los Angeles Part IV: Disorganic development in peripheral countries 10. Introduction 11. Imperialism and disorganic development in the silicone age 12. Women in the global factory 13. Export-led industrialization in the Third World: manufacturing imperialism Part V: Industrial policy reexamined 14. Introduction 15. Facing Leviathan: public policy and global capitalism 16. Bringing the Third World home 17. Free trade zones in Southeast Asia 18. Conclusion: restructuring control over industrial development Part VI: Conclusion: the transformation of international capitalism 19. Global crisis and transformation