Western Capitalism in Transition

Global Processes, Local Challenges
Herausgeber: Andreotti, Alberta; Kazepov, Yuri; Benassi, David

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781526122414
• ISBN-10: 1526122413
• Artikelnr.: 48031798

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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