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  • Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis

    This book assesses the forces of social struggle shaping the past and present of the global political economy from the perspective of historical materialism. Based on the philosophy of internal relations, the character of capital is understood in such a way that the ties between the relations of production, state-civil society, and conditions of class struggle can be realised. By conceiving the ... Read more

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  • Globalisation and Enlargement of the European Union

    Austrian and Swedish Social Forces in the Struggle over Membership

    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    On January 1 1995, Austria and Sweden joined the European Union (EU). This book examines why these two countries joined at such a moment and studies their accession against the structural background of globalization. In this cutting-edge analysis, Andreas Bieler argues that conventional neo-functionalist and intergovernmentalist theories fail to explain such structural change as they take existing ... Read more

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  • Fighting for Water

    Resisting Privatization in Europe

    In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe. At the same time, the struggle against water privatization has continued to pick up pace; from the re-municipalization of water in Grenoble in 2000, to the United Nations declaration of water as a human right in 2010.In Fighting for Water, Andreas Bieler draws on years of extensive ... Read more

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  • Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis

    This book analyses the intertwined crises facing the European Union within their global context through the lens of critical political economy. Challenging conventional narratives of European integration, it explores the power structures, inequalities, and socio-political implications that underpin modern European politics. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters. ... Read more

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  • Labour and the Challenges of Globalization

    What Prospects For Transnational Solidarity?

    This book critically examines the responses of the working classes of the world to the challenges posed by the neoliberal restructuring of the global economy.Neoliberal globalisation, the book argues, has created new forms of polarisation in the world. A renewal of working class internationalism must address the situation of both the more privileged segments of the working class and the more ... Read more

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  • Labour Conflicts in the Global South

    Edited by Andreas Bieler, Jörg Nowak ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth engines of the global political economy as part of the so-called BRICS.This volume systematically ... Read more

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  • Religion and Migration

    Negotiating Hospitality, Agency and Vulnerability

    This volume explores religious discourses and practices of hospitality in the context of migration. It articulates the implied ambivalences and even contradictions as well as the potential to contribute to a more just world through social interconnection with others. The book features contributors from diverse national, denominational, cultural, and racial backgrounds. Their essays reveal a ... Read more

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  • Chinese Labour in the Global Economy

    Capitalist Exploitation and Strategies of Resistance

    Edited by Andreas Bieler, Chun-Yi Lee ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Chinese development is widely considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up with double-digit growth rates year on year. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay and lack of welfare benefits. Increasing levels of inequality ... Read more

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  • Images of Gramsci

    Connections and Contentions in Political Theory and International Relations

    Edited by Andreas Bieler, Adam Morton ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    A comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Gramsci’s theory and practice at the beginning of the twenty-first century.Whilst commentaries on Antonio Gramsci and arguments surrounding his political and intellectual legacy have proliferated, little attention has been hitherto directed to linking the connections and contentions between Political Theory and International Political Economy. This ... Read more

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  • Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis

    Series series Studies in Social and Global Justice
    Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other. The global economic crisis has intensified these pressures further. And yet, economic and political integration processes have also provided workers with new possibilities to organize resistance.Emphasizing ... Read more

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  • Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity

    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Globalisation has put national labour movements under severe pressure, due to the increasing transnationalisation of production, with the production of many goods being organised across borders, and the informalisation of the economy.Through a range of case studies, this volume examines the possibilities and obstacles to transnational solidarity of labour in a period of global restructuring and ... Read more

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  • Free Trade and Transnational Labour

    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Resistance against free trade agreements based on an expanded trade agenda, including issues related to intellectual property rights, trade in services and trade-related investment measures, has increased since the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle in 1999. While the WTO Doha negotiations have broken down, the EU and USA are increasingly engaged in bilateral free trade ... Read more

    $65.99 USD