Shadow Negotiators is the first book to demonstrate that United Nations (UN) organizations have intervened to influence the discourse, agenda and outcomes of international trade lawmaking at the World Trade Organization (WTO). While UN organizations lack a seat at the bargaining table at the...

Introduction : poverty reduction through land transfers -- Pro-poor reforms : the propertizing paradigm -- Pro-poor land reform in Eurasia -- The reform continuum : from China to Russia -- Smallholders : a fieldwork study of resilience and resistance -- Resilience : survival and growth of...

Cover -- Series Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Intervention by International Organizations -- 2. The Regime Complex for Food Security -- 3. The FAO: Mobilizing States to Protect Food Security -- 4....

State against industry : time and labor among Dominican furniture makers -- Of violence and precarity : gender, food, debt -- The end of the colmado? -- For cooperatives : mutual aid, social enterprises, and empowerment -- Jobless growth, "no labor" futures, and the investigation of popular...

Precarious work in comparative perspective -- Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia -- Global capitalism, domestic policies, and precarious work -- Dualisms of precarious work : nonstandard work, informal economy, and self-employment -- Precarious work, wages, and social protections -- Precarious...

Cover -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note on Currency -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. State against Industry: Time and Labor among Dominican Furniture Makers -- 2. Of Violence and Precarity: Gender, Food, Debt -- 3. The End of the Colmado? -- 4. For Cooperatives: Mutual Aid,...

"This book asks how Germany – a country long thought to be irrevocably European and committed to a more social market economy – could have emerged at the center of neoliberal restructuring in Europe."

World economy goes to heaven -- Killer app for world trade -- When 6 billion people go to the mall -- Driverless delivery, door-to-door -- Finding $1.7 trillion -- The big query -- Offline -- Stuck in customs -- Splinternet -- Credit crunch -- Techlash and trade wars -- Better trade by more people.

Disentangling discretionary governance -- Liquid mandate -- Setting precedence -- The status machinery -- Mobilizing for the future -- Political sway -- Conclusions : a new narrative for future globalization?