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Author:   Alan Smart ,  Josephine Smart ,  Jack R. Rollwagen
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780791463994

ISBN 10:   0791463990
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   10 March 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations 1. Introduction Alan Smart and Josephine Smart 2. Petty Production: The Enduring Alternative Hill Gates 3. Movers and Fixers: Historical Forms of Exploitation and the Marketing of a Regional Economy in Spain Gavin Smith and Susana Narotzky 4. Flexibility for Whom?: Small-Scale Garment Manufacturing in Rural Mexico Frances Abrahamer Rothstein 5. Capitalism from Below?: Small Firms, Petty Capitalists, and Regional Transformations in Eastern Europe Adrian Smith 6. Global Market and Local Concerns: Petty Capitalists in the Brianza Simone Ghezzi 7. They Were Promised a Rosegarden: Reunification and Globalization in Small- and Medium-size Firms in Eastern Germany Hans Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler 8. New Firm Formation and Technical Upgrading in the Taiwanese Semiconductor Industry: Is Petty Commodity Production Still Relevant to High-Technology Development? Jinn-yuh Hsu 9. Toward A (Proper) Postwar History of Southeast Asian Petty Capitalism: Predation, the State, and Chinese Small Business Capital in Malaysia Donald M. Nonini 10. Labor Standard Regulation and the Modernization of Small-Scale Carpet Production in Kathmandu Nepal Tom O'Neill 11. Fair(er) Trade for the Global Markets: Capitalizing on Work Alternatives in Crafts in the Rural Philippines B. Lynne Milgram 12: The Moral Significance of Petty Capitalism Michael Blim Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Alan Smart and Josephine Smart are Professors of Anthropology at the University of Calgary. Alan Smart is the author of Making Room: Squatter Clearance in Hong Kong. Josephine Smart is the author of The Political Economy of Street Hawkers in Hong Kong and the coeditor (with Martha W. Rees) of Plural Globalities in Multiple Localities: New World Borders.

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