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The Capitalist city : global restructuring and community politics / edited by Michael Peter Smith & Joe R. Feagin.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban economics.
- Urbanization.
- Capitalism.
- Urban policy.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1987.
- Contents:
- 1 Cities and the New International Division of Labor: An Overview / Joe R. Feagin, Michael Peter Smith 3
- Part II Theoretical Perspectives: The Global Economy, the State and the City
- 2 World-System Theory and the Study of Comparative Urbanization / Michael Timberlake 37
- 3 Cities and the International Division of Labor / Norman J. Glickman 66
- 4 Urban Theory Reconsidered: Production, Reproduction and Collective Action / Michael Peter Smith, Richard Tardanico 87
- Part III Economic Restructuring in Cities: A Global Perspective
- 5 The Politics of Dependency in Deindustrializing America: The Case of Buffalo, New York / David C. Perry 113
- 6 Growth and Informalization at the Core: A Preliminary Report on New York City / Saskia Sassen-Koob 138
- 7 Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global Perspective / Richard Child Hill, Joe R. Feagin 155
- 8 Economic Restructuring and the Internationalization of the Los Angeles Region / Edward W. Soja 178
- 9 Lima and the New International Division of Labor / Patricia Ann Wilson 199
- Part IV State Responses to Global Restructuring
- 10 The State, Capital and Urban Change in Britain / Desmond S. King 215
- 11 Plant Closures in Socialist France / Sophie Body-Gendrot 237
- 12 Urbanization, the Informal Economy and State Policy in Latin America / Helen I. Safa 252
- Part V Local Responses to Global Restructuring: Community, Household and Urban Politics
- 13 Community and Corporations in the Restructuring of Industry / June Nash 275
- 14 Urban Survival Strategies, Family Structure and Informal Practices / Enzo Mingione 297
- 15 Local Mobilization and Economic Discontent / Susan S. Fainstein 323
- 16 Restructuring and Popular Opposition in West German Cities / Margit Mayer 343
- 17 Urban Protest and the Global Political Economy: The IMF Riots / John Walton 364.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0631151826 :
- OCLC:
- 14413184
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