International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring - A Critical Analysis

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Richard Peet (Editor), Peet Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032848730
• ISBN: 978-1-03-284873-0
• No. of pages: 332
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; History, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, Economic history, International business, International Economics, Economics of industrial organisation, Manufacturing industries, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade, Economics of industrial organization