The Transnational Capitalist Class

Author : Leslie Sklair
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0631224629

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The Transnational Capitalist Class by Leslie Sklair Pdf

While most of the popular and academic debates explore ideas of globalization, The Transnational Capitalist Class goes one step further and provides theoretically informed empirical research to explain and deconstruct the process of globalization as seen by the corporations themselves. Using personal interviews with executives and managers from over eighty Fortune Global 500 corporations, as well as already published sources, Sklair demonstrates how globalization works from the perspective of those who control and oppose the major globalizing corporations and their allies in government and the media. The book explores two major crises of globalization - class polarization and ecological sustainability - and shows how the transnational capitalist class attempts to resolve these crises and evaluates its own success and failure. Sklair's unique approach brings a fresh perspective to what has become a key debate of our time.

Author : William K. Carroll
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848139145

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The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class by William K. Carroll Pdf

Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William Carroll maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the world's largest corporations and related political organizations. Carroll provides an in-depth analysis that spans the three decades of the late 20th and early 21st century, when capitalist globalization attained unprecedented momentum, propelled both by the transnationalization of accumulation and by the political paradigm of transnational neoliberalism. This has been an era in which national governments have deregulated capital, international institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the World Economic Forum have gained prominence, and production and finance have become more fully transnational, increasing the structural power of capital over communities and workers. Within this context of transformation, the book charts the making of a transnational capitalist class, reaching beyond national forms of capitalist class organization into a global field, but facing spirited opposition from below in an ongoing struggle that is also a struggle over alternative global futures.

Author : William I. Robinson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801879272

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A Theory of Global Capitalism by William I. Robinson Pdf

Sure to stir controversy and debate, A Theory of Global Capitalism will be of interest to sociologists and economists alike.

Author : Jason Struna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317615088

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Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation by Jason Struna Pdf

The global capitalism perspective is a unique research program focused on understanding relatively recent developments in worldwide social, economic, and political practices related to globalization. At its core, it seeks to contextualize the rearticulation of nation-states and broad geographic regions into highly interdependent networks of production and distribution, and in so doing explain consequent changes in social relations within and between countries in the contemporary era. The present volume contributes to this effort by focusing on social class formation across borders via the processes and actors that make globalized capitalism possible. The essays presented here offer a wide range of emphases in terms of the particular lenses and evidence they use. They cover such topics as the emergence of a transnational capitalist class-based fascist regime responding to the structural crises of global capitalism as well as the links between global class formation and the US racial project as it relates to electoral politics and demographic changes in the US South. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Author : Victor Faessel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 9780190630577

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies by Victor Faessel Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies provides an overview of the emerging field of global studies. Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been reshaping the modern world, and an array of new scholarship has risen to make sense of it in its various transnational manifestations-including economic, social, cultural, ideological, technological, environmental, and in new communications. The editors--Mark Juergensmeyer, Saskia Sassen, and Manfred Steger--are recognized authorities in this emerging field and have gathered an esteemed cast of contributors to discuss various aspects in the field through a broad range of approaches. Several essays focus on the emergence of the field and its historical antecedents. Other essays explore analytic and conceptual approaches to teaching and research in global studies, and the largest section will deal with the subject matter of global studies, challenges from diasporas and pandemics to the global city and the emergence of a transnational capitalist class. The final two sections feature essays that take a critical view of globalization from diverse perspectives and essays on global citizenship-the ideas and institutions that guide an emerging global civil society. This Handbook focuses on global studies more than on the phenomenon of globalization itself, though the various aspects of globalization are central to understanding how the field is currently being shaped.

Author : Jeb Sprague
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439916551

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Globalizing the Caribbean by Jeb Sprague Pdf

The beautiful Caribbean basin is fertile ground for a study of capitalism past and present. Transnational corporations move money and labor around the region, as national regulations are reworked to promote conditions benefiting private capital. Globalizing the Caribbean offers a probing account of the region’s experience of economic globalization while considering gendered and racialized social relations and the frequent exploitation of workers. Jeb Sprague focuses on the social and material nature of this new era in the history of world capitalism. He combines an historical overview of capitalism in the region with theoretical analysis backed by case studies. Sprague elaborates upon the role of class formation and the restructuring of local states. He considers both U.S. hegemony, and how various upsurges from below and crises occur. He examines the globalization of the cruise ship and mining businesses, looks at the growth of migrant labor and reverse flow of remittances, and describes the evolving role of export processing and supranational associations. In doing so, Sprague shows how transnationally oriented elites have come to rule the Caribbean, and how capitalist globalization in the region occurs alongside shifting political, institutional, and organizational dynamics.

Author : Jeb Sprague
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317482871

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Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania by Jeb Sprague Pdf

News headlines warn of rivalries and competing nations across Asia and the Pacific, even as powerful new cross-border relations form as never before. This book looks behind the Asia-Pacific curtain: at the new forms of social, economic, and political integration taking place through a global capitalism that is rife with contradictions, inequality, and crisis. We are moved beyond traditional conceptualizations of the inter-state system with its nation-state competition as the core organizing principle of world capitalism and the principal institutional framework that shapes the makeup of global social forces. These important studies examine and debate over how there is a growing transnationality of material (economic) relations in the global era, as well as an emerging transnationality of many social and class relations. How does transnational capitalist class fractions, new middle strata, and labor undergird globalization in Asia and Oceania? How have states and institutions become entwined with such processes? This book provides insight into a field of dynamic change.

Author : William I. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781316062555

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Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity by William I. Robinson Pdf

This exciting new study provides an original and provocative exposé of the crisis of global capitalism in its multiple dimensions - economic, political, social, ecological, military, and cultural. Building on his earlier works on globalization, William I. Robinson discusses the nature of the new global capitalism, the rise of a globalized production and financial system, a transnational capitalist class, and a transnational state and warns of the rise of a global police state to contain the explosive contradictions of a global capitalist system that is crisis-ridden and out of control. Robinson concludes with an exploration of how diverse social and political forces are responding to the crisis and alternative scenarios for the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621967996

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Indian Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kees Van der Pijl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134652501

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Transnational Classes and International Relations by Kees Van der Pijl Pdf

An exciting and original analysis of the development of capitalist classes, such as the Freemasons, that cross national boundaries in the global political economy. This innovative book focuses on: * an historical perspective on class formation under capitalism and its transnational integration * international relations between the English-speaking centre of capital and successive contender states. The author develops a broad-ranging and thorough understanding of class in the process of globalization. He does so within several theoretical frameworks shedding much light on this important topic.

Author : Peter Phillips
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609808723

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Giants by Peter Phillips Pdf

A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future. Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett. As the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017, according to Oxfam International, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms—each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management—now represent the financial core of the world's transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management—the facilitators—of world capitalism, the firewall protecting the capital investment, growth, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing. Each chapter in Giants identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires, their 17 global financial companies—and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission—and their transnational military protectors, so the reader, for the first time anywhere, can identify who constitutes this network of influence, where the wealth is concentrated, how it suppresses social movements, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change.

Author : Leslie Sklair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134904303

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Capitalism and Development by Leslie Sklair Pdf

This collection draws together a distinguished group of authors to explore how capitalism contributes to the development and underdevelopment of the Third World. It provides a superb overview of key concepts such as "capitalism", "development","modernization" and "dependency".

Author : Bob Jessop,Henk Overbeek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351251921

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Transnational Capital and Class Fractions by Bob Jessop,Henk Overbeek Pdf

Emerging in the late 1970s, the Amsterdam School’s (AS) most distinctive contribution to international political economy was the systematic incorporation of the Marxian concept of capital fractions into the study of international politics. Contending that politics in advanced capitalist countries takes place in a fundamentally transnationalized space in which the distinction between ‘domestic’ and ‘international’ has blurred, it shows how in this space, politics is structured by competing comprehensive concepts of control. Presenting a concise and instructive introduction to the origins, development and significance of this distinct approach, this book provides a unique overview of the School’s contemporary significance for the field. Offering a new generation of critical scholars the opportunity to become acquainted at first hand with some of the contributions that have shaped the work of the AS, the contributions present critical commentaries, discussing the merits and shortcomings of the AS from a variety of perspectives, and undertake a (self-) critical evaluation of the current place and value of the AS framework in the broader landscape of approaches to the study of contemporary capitalism. Written for scholars and students alike, it will be of interest to those working in international political economy, international relations and political science, political sociology, European studies and branches of academic economics such as regulation theory and institutional economics.

Author : Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134521616

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Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration by Bastiaan van Apeldoorn Pdf

This book presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the political economy of European integration must be put within the context of a changing global capitalism, Van Apeldoorn examines how European change is linked to global change and how transnational actors mediate these changes.

Author : Leslie Sklair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : UOM:39076001610968

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Sociology of the Global System by Leslie Sklair Pdf

On the sociology of globalization