International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring

A Critical Analysis

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-84873-0 (ISBN)

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First published in 1987, International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring counters the idea that industrial restructuring is a relatively problem-free stage in the evolution to a post-industrial society. The editor argues that the permanent loss of eight million manufacturing jobs in the advanced industrial countries over the past ten years has had extremely serious effects on people, economies, and societies, and that it is a major cause of economic recession. The six million jobs gained in the newly industrializing countries pay low wages, expose workers to hazards, destroy local cultures, and fail in generating integrated development for the Third World.

Many outstanding articles are included, drawn from a wide variety of radical journals, with introductions that set the scene and pose challenging questions. All students and researchers concerned with industrial restructuring in the capitalist world will find the book valuable as a radical critique of widespread current economic problems.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	780 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-032-84873-1 / 1032848731
ISBN-13	978-1-032-84873-0 / 9781032848730
Zustand	Neuware