Andreotti / Unknown / Benassi Western capitalism in transition

Global processes, local challenges
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2240-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Since its birth, industrial capitalism has been punctuated by the need to find new ways to develop institutions that make the capitalist production process socially sustainable. These transitions are examined in the contemporary climate by a collection of world renowned thinkers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Andreotti, Alberta

Benassi, David

Kazepov, Yuri

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Framing the issues at stake
1 Western capitalism in transition: global processes, local challenges – Alberta Andreotti, David Benassi, Yuri Kazepov
2 A child of its times: the “new urban sociology” in context and its legacy – Michael Harloe

Part I: The transformations of global capitalism
3 Abstract from the concrete: capitalism spiralling out of control – David Harvey
4 Rethinking social reproduction in an era of the dominance of finance capital – Gavin Smith
5 On the social (dis)embedding of the economy in a local context: where anthropology and sociology share metaphors as analytical tools – Simone Ghezzi

Part II: Welfare capitalism and rights
6 The underclass and international comparison, variety and universalism – Jean-Claude Barbier
7 Welfare migration and civic stratification: Britain's emergent rights regime – Lydia Morris
8 The Mediterranean welfare states between recalibration and change in the cultural paradigm – Nicola Negri and Chiara Saraceno

Part III: Citizenship and migration
9 Deconstructing labour demand: implications for low wage employment – Saskia Sassen
10 International migrations and the Mediterranean – Enrico Pugliese
11 Cities under economic austerity: the return of citizenship claims – Marisol García

Part IV: Cities and urban transformations
12 The sense of touch – Richard Sennett
13 Urban disorder and the transformation of global governance – Sophie Body-Gendrot
14 Urban political economy beyond convergence: robust but differentiated unequal European cities – Patrick Le Galès

Part V: Segregation and the spatial dimension of poverty
15 The spatial dimension of poverty – Susan S. Fainstein and Norman Fainstein
16 Urban segregation, inequalities and local welfare: the challenges of neoliberalisation – Marco Oberti and Edmond Préteceille
17 Urban poverty and social cohesion: lessons from Naples – Enrica Morlicchio

Perspectives on the future of western capitalism
18 The double movement and the perspectives of contemporary capitalism – Enzo Mingione

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alberta Andreotti is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca

David Benassi is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca

Yuri Kazepov is Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Vienna