scholarly journals Global Commodity Chains and the Production of Surplus-value on a Global Scale: Bringing Back the New International Division of Labour Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Grinberg
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Commodity Chain ◽  
International Division ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Global Commodity Chains ◽  
Chain Analysis ◽  
Critical Revision

This paper offers a critique of mainstream and critical versions of Global Commodity Chain analysis of post-1960s global-economy transformations claiming that they suffer from different types of methodological nationalism. After arguing that the key to overcome their intrinsic problems is to be found in the critical revision of Fröbel et al.'s New International Division of Labour theory, the paper advances a novel account of the structural dynamics of the stratified capitalist world-system developed by Iñigo Carrera (1998). Finally, the paper substantiates its main claims with an analysis of the long-term development of the global semiconductors industry.

scholarly journals Transnational gentrification, tourism and the formation of ‘foreign only’ enclaves in Barcelona

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (15) ◽  
pp. 3025-3043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agustin Cocola-Gant ◽  
Antonio Lopez-Gay
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
Transnational Migrants ◽  
Neighbourhood Change ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

In a context of global-scale inequalities and increased middle-class transnational mobility, this paper explores how the arrival of Western European and North American migrants in Barcelona drives a process of gentrification that coexists and overlaps with the development of tourism in the city. Research has focused increasingly on the role of visitors and Airbnb in driving gentrification. However, our aim is to add another layer to the complexity of neighbourhood change in tourist cities by considering the role of migrants from advanced economies as gentrifiers in these neighbourhoods. We combined socio-demographic analysis with in-depth interviews and, from this, we found that: (1) lifestyle opportunities, rather than work, explain why transnational migrants are attracted to Barcelona, resulting in privileged consumers of housing that then displace long-term residents; (2) migrants have become spatially concentrated in tourist enclaves and interact predominantly with other transnational mobile populations; (3) the result is that centrally located neighbourhoods are appropriated by foreigners – both visitors and migrants – who are better positioned in the unequal division of labour, causing locals to feel increasingly excluded from the place. We illustrate that tourism and transnational gentrification spatially coexist and, accordingly, we provide an analysis that integrates both processes to understand how neighbourhood change occurs in areas impacted by tourism. By doing so, the paper offers a fresh reading of how gentrification takes place in a Southern European destination and, furthermore, it provides new insights into the conceptualisation of tourism and lifestyle migration as drivers of gentrification.

Rozwój cywilizacji kapitalistycznej w perspektywie teorii systemu-świata

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (15) ◽  
pp. 66-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Pawłuszko
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
World System ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
International Division ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Economic

Article explores the issue of genesis and development of the „world-system analysis” and focuses on its approach to the proces of globalization. From the point of view of world-system analyses the global economic system has emerged since the sixteenth century. For centuries global economy has been based on the international division of labour. It creates a new kind of „capitalistic civiliation”. This paper aims to discuss the development of theoretical framework of the world-system analysis. Besides, I try to outline contemporary scientific and political-economic challenges for the concept of capitalistic civilization.

Africa's External Debt Situation

1979 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Robert L. Curry
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Third World ◽  
External Debt ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
International Division ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Outstanding Debt ◽  
And Performance

What, if anything, should be done about the rapidly mounting external debt of African and other Third-World countries? This question, prominent within the agenda of U.N.C.T.A.D. 5, is inseparable from the broader problem of what to do about the structure and performance of the global economy which, based on an international division of labour, puts numerous African countries in a situation where they experience acute and chronic deficits and unfavourable terms of trade. The accumulation of outstanding debt, and the concurrent obligation to meet growing service payments, is the result of that structure and process.

Towards a Sociology of Endings

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Crow
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
International Division ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Development History ◽  
Discontinuous Nature ◽  
New Beginnings ◽  
Work Class ◽  
People’S Perceptions

Sociological commentaries on the future are frequently built around the claim that we are witnessing the beginning of a new social phenomenon as a result of an existing one coming to an end. Recent examples of discussions framed in terms of new beginnings include reference to the emergence of new forms of family, community, politics, slavery and the international division of labour, while the focus on endings includes analyses of the end of marriage, masculinity, work, class, capitalism, development, history, and the world as we know it. This paper argues that such claims exaggerate the discontinuous nature of social change, and that a more nuanced account of the processes involved in beginnings and endings needs to be developed. As a contribution to this project, ten propositions are advanced about the processes whereby old social phenomena come to an end and new ones emerge. For example, people's perceptions about whether they stand to gain or lose from the substitution of a new social arrangement for an old one are volatile, and this has major implications for the prediction of their behaviour. Taken together, the ten propositions offer a distinctive perspective on the understanding of long-term social change.

Global Commodity Chains and Global Value Chains

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joonkoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Commodity Chain ◽  
Commodity Chains ◽  
Specific Product ◽  
Narrow Scope ◽  
Global Commodity Chains ◽  
The Social ◽  
Organizational Linkages

A commodity chain refers to “a network of labor and production processes whose end result is a finished commodity.” The attention given to this concept has quickly translated into an expanding body of global chains literature. Research into global commodity chains (GCC), and later global value chains (GVC), is an endeavor to explain the social and organizational structure of the global economy and its dynamics by examining the commodity chains of a specific product of service. The GCC approach first emerged in the mid-1980s from world-system research and was reformulated in the early 1990s by development scholars. The development-oriented GCC approach turned the focus of GCC analysis to actor-centered processes in the global economy. One of the initial criticisms facing the GCC approach was its exclusive focus on internal conditions and organizational linkages, lacking systemic attention to the effect of domestic institutions and internal capacity on economic development. Other critics pointed to the narrow scope of GCC research. With the huge expansion in global chains literature in the past decade—not only in volume but also in depth and scope—efforts have been made to elaborate the global chains framework and to render it industry neutral, as partly reflected in the adoption of the term “global value chains.” Three key research themes surround these recent evolutions of global chains literature: GVC governance, “upgrading,” and the social construction of global value chains. Existing literature, however, still has theoretical and methodological gaps to redress.

scholarly journals The New Global Economy: Time-Space Compression, Geopolitics, and Global Uneven Development

2001 ◽  
pp. 133-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Agnew
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Space Compression ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Transportation Technologies

Two ideas have dominated discussion in recent studies of the social andpolitical impacts of globalization by those who think that globalization has had real e?ects and is not simply a synonym for the neo-liberal policies insti-tuted by many national governments beginning in the 1980s. The ?rst is the idea that everywhere in the world is becoming alike economically and culturally as a consequence of globalization. This is a scaling up from the national to a global scale of the old idea of “modernization.” From this perspective, common global norms about conduct, consumption standards, and cultural practices are spreading everywhere (John Meyer at Stanford University [e.g. Meyer 1996] and his students are perhaps representative of this thrust). This global modernization is often seen as brought about by causes implicit in a second idea, although proponents of the second idea may well not endorse the ?rst or vice versa. This is that current globalization is about the shrinking of the world because of revolutionary changes in communication and transportation technologies. In the long-term this process of “time-space compression” will produce greater economic similarities across places but immediately this need not be the case. Rather, di?erences between places may in fact intensify as involvement in a world of ?ows makes the characteristics of this or that place make the place more competitive globally. In the end, however, di?erent places will establish niches for themselves within the global economy, even if there is dislocation in the short-term.

scholarly journals Globalization and cities

Sociologija ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-44
Author(s):  
Mina Petrovic
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
International Division ◽  
The Third ◽  
Urban Regime ◽  
Urban Analysis ◽  
Circuit Of Capital ◽  
Global World ◽  
The City

This paper deals with the basic concepts on cities within contemporary globalisation. First, it briefly reviews the city perspective within the world system theory (concepts of over-urbanisation, under-urbanisation, and dependent urbanisation), new international division of labour, theory of the second circuit of capital and informational society. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the concepts of global and world cities and their implications for the cities in developed and developing countries (including post-socialist). Urban policy and urban regime concepts are analysed in the third part, by focusing on economic competitiveness and democratic potentials of (developed, developing and post-socialist) cities in the global world. Finally, paper concludes that new analytical concepts on cities developed since the1970?s actually deconstruct and reconstitute inherited forms of urban analysis with more or less success. Increased importance of cities as socio-economic actors in global economy has not contributed to the closure of the developmental gap. Contrary to that, it has been reproducing according to the new regulatory principles.

Impact of FII’s and FDI’s on Indian Stock Market

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Earnings Growth ◽  
The Past ◽  
Bull Market ◽  
Indian Stock Market

FIIs are companies registered outside India. In the past four years there has been more than $41 trillion worth of FII funds invested in India. This has been one of the major reasons on the bull market witnessing unprecedented growth with the BSE Sensex rising 221% in absolute terms in this span. The present downfall of the market too is influenced as these FIIs are taking out some of their invested money. Though there is a lot of value in this market and fundamentally there is a lot of upside in it. For long-term value investors, there’s little because for worry but short term traders are adversely getting affected by the role of FIIs are playing at the present. Investors should not panic and should remain invested in sectors where underlying earnings growth has little to do with financial markets or global economy.

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