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Introduction | p. vii |
Economic globalisation | p. 1 |
Capitalism and globalisation | p. 3 |
Economic globalisation | p. 4 |
The capitalist world economy | p. 9 |
The 'new imperialism': accumulation by dispossession | p. 16 |
Globalisation as the new imperialism? | p. 24 |
A new global economy? | p. 29 |
The globalisation 'myth' | p. 30 |
Modes of global integration | p. 38 |
The economy of signs, flows and networks | p. 39 |
Global 'scapes' | p. 41 |
The network economy: Castells | p. 43 |
The politics of economic globalisation: governance and resistance | p. 54 |
Globalisation and the question of governance | p. 55 |
The 'crisis' of the nation state | p. 56 |
International economic governance | p. 61 |
Civil society and economic governance | p. 71 |
Anti-globalisation movements | p. 78 |
Production | p. 85 |
Fordism and after | p. 87 |
Fordism | p. 88 |
The crisis of Fordism | p. 93 |
After Fordism | p. 95 |
Post-Fordist problems | p. 101 |
Knowledge, information, signs | p. 105 |
Post-industrial society: the economic role of knowledge | p. 106 |
Information society | p. 110 |
The 'economy of signs' | p. 112 |
From non-material products to 'nothings' | p. 119 |
Culture and economy | p. 121 |
Summary of key changes | p. 124 |
Social identities and economic divisions | p. 127 |
Class | p. 129 |
Neo-Marxist accounts | p. 130 |
Weberian analysis: market position and status | p. 133 |
Changing formations of class and work | p. 141 |
Class in a global context | p. 150 |
Inequality | p. 157 |
Inequality 'after' class | p. 158 |
Structures of inequality | p. 163 |
Global inequalities | p. 165 |
Poverty, inequality, insecurity: challenges for human development | p. 169 |
Bibliography | p. 174 |
Index | p. 191 |
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