Petty capitalists and globalization : flexibility, entrepreneurship, and economic development

Introduction / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart -- Petty production : the enduring alternative / Hill Gates -- Movers and fixers : historical forms of exploitation and the marketing of a regional economy in Spain / Gavin Smith and Susana Narotzky -- Flexibility for whom? : small-scale garment manufacturing in rural Mexico / Frances Abrahamer Rothstein -- Capitalism from below? : small firms, petty capitalists and regional transformations in Eastern Europe / Adrian Smith -- Global market and local concerns : petty capitalists in the Brianza / Simone Ghezzi -- They were promised a rosegarden : reunification and globalization in small- and medium-sized firms in eastern Germany / Hans Buechler and Judith-Maria Buechler -- New firm formation and technical upgrading in the Taiwanese semiconductor industry : is petty commodity production still relevant to high-technology development? / Jinn-yuh Hsu -- Toward a (proper) postwar history of Asian petty capitalism : predation, the state, and Chinese small business capital in Malaysia / Donald M. Nonini -- Labour standard regulation and the modernization of small-scale carpet production in Kathmandu, Nepal / Tom O'Neill -- Fair(er) trade for global markets : capitalizing on work alternatives in crafts in the rural Philippines / B. Lynne Milgram -- The moral significance of petty capitalism / Michael Blim