Handbook of the international political economy of production / edited by Kees van der Pijl.

Includes bibliographical references (page 542-649) and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I RESTRUCTURING THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY -- Introduction to Part I -- 1.Labour, war and world politics: contemporary dynamics in world-historical perspective / Beverly J. Silver -- 2.Rethinking production, finance and hegemonic decline in IPE / Sam Gindin -- 3.Innovation policies and the competition state: the case of nanotechnology / Joscha Wullweber -- 4.The political economy of global labour arbitrage / David T. Martin -- 5.Apple's iPad City: subcontracting exploitation to China / Mark Selden -- 6.The grapes of wrath: social upgrading and class struggles in global value chains / Benjamin Selwyn -- 7.Global outsourcing and socialization of labour: the case of Nike / Jeroen Merk -- 8.Standardizing services: transnational authority and market power / Jean-Christophe Graz -- 9.Encumbered behemoth: Wal-Mart, differential accumulation and international retail restructuring / Joseph Baines --

Contents note continued: 10.Beyond the'BRICS': new patterns of development cooperation in the Trans-Eurasian corridor / Yury Gromyko -- pt. II LABOUR AND THE POLITICS OF WORK -- Introduction to Part II -- 11.Look back in hope? Reassessing Fordism today / Radhika Desai -- 12.Paternalism, Taylorism, socialism: the Battle for Production in the Chilean textile industry, 1930--1973 / Adam Fishwick -- 13.Trasformismo and the defeat of the Left in Italy / Da vide Bradanini -- 14.Flexibilization of labour in the European Union / Otto Holman -- 15.Globalization and Japanese-style management: image and changing reality / Ryoji Ihara -- 16.Work, power and the urban poor / Jeffrey Harrod -- 17.Unfreedom and workers' power: ever-present possibilities / Kendra Strauss -- 18.The race to the bottom halted? Passive revolution and workers' resistance in China / Kevin Gray -- 19.Bargaining in the global commodity chain: the Asia Floor Wage Alliance / Ashim Roy --

Contents note continued: 20.Twilight of the machinocrats: creative industries, design and the future of human labour / Alan Freeman -- Appendix to Pari II: transnational networks of radical labour research / Mehmet Gursan Senalp -- pt. III PRODUCTION, REPRODUCTION, NATURE -- Introduction to Part III -- 21.Tracking bodies, the'Quantified Self', and the corporeal turn / Phoebe Moore -- 22.Production in everyday life: poetics and prosaics / Matt Davies -- 23.Automobility: culture, (re-)production and sustainability / Matthew Paterson -- 24.Risk capitalism, crisis of socialization and loss of civilization / 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 Boyer -- 27.Alternatives to agribusiness: agro-ecology and the peasant principle / Sylvia Kay --

Contents note continued: 28.Strategies of a Green Economy, contours of a Green Capitalism / Markus Wissen.