Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local (Perspectives on Economic Change) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572301996 ISBN 13: 9781572301993

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1997

Synopsis

Arguments about the globalization of economic relations have become commonplace; part of the everyday diet of social science and public affairs alike. Citing the growth of multinational and transnational corporations, and the enhanced mobility of goods, services and money, proponents of the globalization hypothesis claim that capital now creates new forms of competition beyond the reach of state agencies and nationally organized forms of worker representation. Defined in this manner, globalization becomes a threat to the welfare state, to policies of full employment, and to national living standards. Taking a radically different tack, this timely and far-reaching volume reexamines the underlying assumptions of globalization arguments from a critical perspective. Alongside globalization, authors show, there persist tendencies towards the territorialization and re-territorialization of economic life, as well as the development of new organizing strategies by labor. Probing the complex relationship between the global and the local and investigating the changing dynamics of contemporary firms, labor, capital, and communities, the book also addresses the broader question of the difference that space makes in understanding society.

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Kevin R. Cox is Professor of Geography at The Ohio State University. His major interests are in the politics of local economic development and in social theory and geography. His books include Conflict, Power and Politics in the City and Location and Public Problems.

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Introduction: Globalization and its Politics in Question, Kevin R. Cox
1. Territories, Flows, and Hierarchies in the Global Economy, Michael Storper
2. Between the Global and the Local: The Spatial Limits to Productive Capital, Meric S. Gertler
3. Strategic Localization: The Myth of the Postnational Enterprise, Andrew Mair
4. The Informational Content of Financial Products and the Spatial Structure of the Global Finance Industry, Gordon L. Clark and Kevin O'Connor
5. Globalization and the Politics of Distribution: A Critical Assessment, Kevin R. Cox
6. Neither Global nor Local: "Glocalization" and the Politics of Scale, Erik Swyngedouw
7. Labor as an Agent of Globalization and as a Global Agent, Andrew Herod
8. Social Democracy and External Constraints, Ton Notermans
9. Representation Unbound: Globalization and Democracy, Murray Low

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572301996
• ISBN 13: 9781572301993
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Cox Kevin R.