Overview

This book seeks to clarify the history and theory of capitalist development. It provides an outline to the main concepts of capitalist theories of development and a series of critiques of the main problems that capitalist development still has to solve around the world. The book also includes an examination of key sectors of capitalist development - electronics, automobiles, agribusiness, apparel and the cross-cutting areas of commodity chains and women's work). These chapters ask if capitalism cannot ""develop the Third World"" through these industries, then how can it do so at all? The contributors argue that not even the most enthusiastic proponents of the capitalist road to development would argue that capitalism has solved all its problems in the Third World. The book will interest students in Social Science, development and international business studies courses; the public interested in ""Third World"" issues; and people working in development agencies of various types. Contributors: Henry Bernstein; Mahmoud Dhaouadi; Rhys Jenkins; Kyong-Dong Kim; Maria Mies; Ronaldo Munck; Michael Redclift; Leslie Sklair; Immanuel Wallerstein; Diane Elson; Gary Gereffi; David Harrison; Jeffrey Henderson; Richard Child Hill and Yong Joo Lee; Philip McMichael and Laura Reynolds; Ruth Pearson.

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Author:   Leslie Sklair
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9780415075473

ISBN 10:   0415075475
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   01 September 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Part I Histories and theories of capitalist development 1 DEVELOPMENT: LODESTAR OR ILLUSION? 2 DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT: DECONSTRUCTION AND DEBATES 3 AGRARIAN CLASSES IN CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT 4 CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT IN THE NICs 5 CONFUCIANISM AND CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT IN EAST ASIA 6 ‘GENDER’ AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM 7 DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT: MANAGING THE CONTRADICTIONS? 8 CAPITALISM, GLOBAL HUMANE DEVELOPMENT AND THE OTHER UNDERDEVELOPMENT 9 CAPITALISM AND DEVELOPMENT IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Part II Sectoral studies 10 UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT AND THE TEXTILES AND CLOTHING INDUSTRY 11 CAPITALISM, DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL COMMODITY CHAINS 12 TOURISM, CAPITALISM AND DEVELOPMENT IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES 13 ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD: UNEVEN CONTRIBUTIONS AND UNCERTAIN PROSPECTS 14 JAPANESE MULTINATIONALS AND EAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY 15 CAPITALISM, AGRICULTURE AND WORLD ECONOMY 16 GENDER RELATIONS, CAPITALISM AND THIRD WORLD INDUSTRIALIZATION

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Leslie Sklair is Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics. He has been a consultant for the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, the UN Commission on Latin America, the ILO and the Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress.

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