Articulations of capital : global production networks and regional transformations

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part 1 Articulating Capital in Global Production Networks -- Chapter 1 Articulations of Capital -- Introduction -- Globalization, Post-Socialist Liberalization and Structural Adjustment -- Transformations in Apparel Global Value Chains -- Consequences of the Global Shift -- The Structure of the Book -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Economic Geography, Conjuncture and the Dynamics of Capital -- Introduction -- From Global Commodity and Value Chains to Global Production Networks and Beyond -- Articulation/Disarticulation and Differential Inclusion in Global Production Networks -- Towards a Conjunctural Economic Geography of Global Production Networks: Conjuncturalism, Context and Embeddedness -- Conclusion: Post-Socialism and Conjunctural Economic Geographies -- Notes -- Part 2 Working off the Past: Context and Complexity in Apparel Global Production Networks -- Chapter 3 Working in the Post-Socialist Apparel Economy -- Starting Again with Labour -- From State Socialist Full-Package Production to Export Processing -- Post-Socialist Regional Divisions of Labour -- Low-Wage Production and the "Sweatshop Trope" -- Struggles over Work and Working Conditions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Managing Europe's Golden Bands: Trade Policy and the Regulation of Production Networks -- Institutional and Policy Frameworks of the Golden Bands -- Trade Policy in Apparel Global Production Networks -- Global and Macro-Regional Trade Liberalization in Textiles and Apparel -- Outward Processing Trade and the Origins and Reconfiguration of Pan-European Apparel Production -- European Union Apparel Lead Firms and the Europeanization of Supply Chains -- Conclusion -- Notes.