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

Intro -- Petty Capitalists and Globalization: Flexibility, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development -- Contents -- Illustrations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Petty Production: The Enduring Alternative -- 3. Movers and Fixers: Historical Forms of Exploitation and the Marketing of a Regional Economy in Spain -- 4. Flexibility for Whom?: Small-Scale Garment Manufacturing in Rural Mexico -- 5. Capitalism from Below?: Small Firms, Petty Capitalists, and Regional Transformations in Eastern Europe -- 6. Global Market and Local Concerns: Petty Capitalists in the Brianza -- 7. They Were Promised a Rosegarden: Reunification and Globalization in Small- and Medium-size Firms in Eastern Germany -- 8. New Firm Formation and Technical Upgrading in the Taiwanese Semiconductor Industry: Is Petty Commodity Production Still Relevant to High-Technology Development? -- 9. Toward a (Proper) Postwar History of Southeast Asian Petty Capitalism: Predation, the State, and Chinese Small Business Capital in Malaysia -- 10. Labor Standard Regulation and the Modernization of Small-Scale Carpet Production in Kathmandu Nepal -- 11. Fair(er) Trade for Global Markets: Capitalizing on Work Alternatives in Crafts in the Rural Philippines -- 12. The Moral Significance of Petty Capitalism -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.