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Author:   Jessop
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Volume:   No. 5
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   1.160kg
ISBN:  

9781840646559

ISBN 10:   1840646551
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   25 April 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part 1 Recent theoretical innovations: the four worlds of contemporary industry, Robert Salais and Michael Storper; a new paradigm for economic analysis? Recent convergences in French social science and an exploration of the convention theory approach with a consideration of its application to the analysis of the agrofood system, John Wilkinson; regulation, regime and practice in urban politics, Joe Painter. Part 2 Social movements and identity politics: new social movements and the transformation to post-Fordist society, Margit Mayer and Roland Roth; regulation theory, post-Marxism, and the new social movements, George Steinmetz; thinking (a feminist) history - the regulation approach as theatre, Jane Jenson. Part 3 Space and scale: spatial responses to Fordist and post-Fordist accumulation and regulation, Frank Moulaert, Erik Swyngedouw and Patricia Wilson; self-organization of society by scale - a spatial reworking of social regulation theory, Chris Collinge; neither global nor local - globalization and the politics of scale, Erik Swyngedouw. Part 4 Cities: Fordism, post-Fordism and urban policy-making - urban renewal in a medium-size Canadian city, Pierre Filion; flexibilization through metropolis - the case of post-Fordist Seoul, Korea, Myung-Rae Cho; globalization as re-territorialization - the re-scaling of urban governance in the European Union, Neil Brenner. Part 5 Globalization: the global economy - new edifice or crumbling foundations? David M. Gordon; new wines, new bottles - the regulation of capital on a world scale, Harriet Friedmann; reflections on globalization and its (il)logic(s), Bob Jessop. Part 6 Some emerging issues: global governance and political economy - German and French perspectives, Alfredo C. Robles Jr; the regulation approach, governance and post-Fordism - alternative perspectives on economic and political change? Bob Jessop; housework made easy - the Taylorized housewife in Weimar Germany's rationalized economy, Mary Nolan; Fordism, post-Fordism and gender, Philip Arestis and Eleni Paliginis; geography, ecology, democracy, Alain Lipietz. Part 7 Recent reviews: 20 years of the (Parisian) regulation approach - the paradox of success and failure at home and abroad, Bob Jessop; globalizing Parisian thought-waves -recent advances in the study of social regulation, discourse, politics, discourse and space, Gordon MacLeod.

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