Western capitalism in transition (eBook)

Global processes, local challenges

Alberta Andreotti, David Benassi, Yuri Kazepov (Herausgeber)

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2018
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2242-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Since its birth, industrial capitalism has been punctuated by the need to find new ways to develop institutions that make the capitalist production process socially sustainable. These transitions are examined in the contemporary climate by a collection of world renowned thinkers.

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Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical exploration of capitalism in transition, bringing together cutting edge, world renowned scholars who reflect from different disciplinary points of view. This collection engages with the primarily Western themes of welfare capitalism and social fragmentation. Structured over three parts, the book analyses; the transformations of welfare societies and capitalism with a focus on South European welfare states and their (in)capacity to tackle poverty; the transformation of work and migration with a special attention to informality and the question of social rights; and the transformation of cities.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, No poverty.

Autor

Alberta Andreotti is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca David Benassi is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca Yuri Kazepov is Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Vienna

Inhalt

Framing the issues at stake
1 Western capitalism in transition: global processes, local challenges – Alberta Andreotti, David Benassi, Yuri Kazepov
2 A child of its times: the “new urban sociology” in context and its legacy – Michael Harloe

Part I: The transformations of global capitalism
3 Abstract from the concrete: capitalism spiralling out of control – David Harvey
4 Rethinking social reproduction in an era of the dominance of finance capital – Gavin Smith
5 On the social (dis)embedding of the economy in a local context: where anthropology and sociology share metaphors as analytical tools – Simone Ghezzi

Part II: Welfare capitalism and rights
6 The underclass and international comparison, variety and universalism – Jean-Claude Barbier
7 Welfare migration and civic stratification: Britain's emergent rights regime – Lydia Morris
8 The Mediterranean welfare states between recalibration and change in the cultural paradigm – Nicola Negri and Chiara Saraceno

Part III: Citizenship and migration
9 Deconstructing labour demand: implications for low wage employment – Saskia Sassen
10 International migrations and the Mediterranean – Enrico Pugliese
11 Cities under economic austerity: the return of citizenship claims – Marisol García

Part IV: Cities and urban transformations
12 The sense of touch – Richard Sennett
13 Urban disorder and the transformation of global governance – Sophie Body-Gendrot
14 Urban political economy beyond convergence: robust but differentiated unequal European cities – Patrick Le Galès

Part V: Segregation and the spatial dimension of poverty
15 The spatial dimension of poverty – Susan S. Fainstein and Norman Fainstein
16 Urban segregation, inequalities and local welfare: the challenges of neoliberalisation – Marco Oberti and Edmond Préteceille
17 Urban poverty and social cohesion: lessons from Naples – Enrica Morlicchio

Perspectives on the future of western capitalism
18 The double movement and the perspectives of contemporary capitalism – Enzo Mingione

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2018
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: citizenship systems • Enzo Mingione • Financial Capital • Fordist crisis • Global capitalism • migratory flows • neoliberal transformation • new employment regimes • postwar capitalism • Poverty • Welfare policies • Western Capitalism
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-2242-1 / 1526122421
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-2242-1 / 9781526122421