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Petty capitalists and globalization : flexibility, entrepreneurship, and economic development / edited by Alan Smart and Josephine Smart.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in anthropological studies of contemporary issues.
- SUNY series in anthropological studies of contemporary issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Small business.
- International trade.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 317 p. : ill., 1 map.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines how small firms, like large ones, are mobilizing to compete in a global economy.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart
- Petty production : the enduring alternative / Hill Gates
- Movers and fixers : historical forms of exploitation and the marketing of a regional economy in Spain / Gavin Smith and Susana Narotzky
- Flexibility for whom? : small-scale garment manufacturing in rural Mexico / Frances Abrahamer Rothstein
- Capitalism from below? : small firms, petty capitalists and regional transformations in Eastern Europe / Adrian Smith
- Global market and local concerns : petty capitalists in the Brianza / Simone Ghezzi
- They were promised a rosegarden : reunification and globalization in small- and medium-sized firms in eastern Germany / Hans Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler
- New firm formation and technical upgrading in the Taiwanese semiconductor industry : is petty commodity production still relevant to high-technology development? / Jinn-yuh Hsu
- Toward a (proper) postwar history of Asian petty capitalism : predation, the state, and Chinese small business capital in Malaysia / Donald M. Nonini
- Labour standard regulation and the modernization of small-scale carpet production in Kathmandu, Nepal / Tom O'Neill
- Fair(er) trade for global markets : capitalizing on work alternatives in crafts in the rural Philippines / B. Lynne Milgram
- The moral significance of petty capitalism / Michael Blim.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791483572
- 0791483576
- 9781423743996
- 1423743997
- OCLC:
- 62735014
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