{"product_id":"articulations-of-capital-global-production-networks-and-regional-transformations-hardback-9781118632710","title":"Articulations of Capital; Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations (Hardback) 9781118632710","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArticulations of Capital\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGlobal Production Networks and Regional Transformations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eArticulations of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e is an intellectually refreshing and stimulating analysis of the shifts in the global apparel industry and its regional and local manifestations in East-Central Europe. Pickles and Smith excel in a theoretically and conceptually rich but empirically grounded critical approach that challenges some widely held assumptions about the contemporary apparel industry, postsocialism and East-Central Europe.’ \u003cbr\u003e— \u003cb\u003ePetr Pavlínek, Professor of Geography, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘This book presents a well grounded and historically contextualized analysis of the political economy of regional transformation in a changing world of apparel global production networks. I particularly like its focus on “actually existing transitions” in selected East Central European regional economies. In this way, the authors have eschewed the snapshot approach in most studies of inter-firm industrial governance and shed much better empirical light on the critical issue of industrial upgrading.’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Professor of Economic Geography and Co-Director of the GPN@NUS Centre, National University of Singapore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Pickles (Author), Adrian Smith (Author), Robert Begg (With), Milan Bucek (With), Poli Roukova (With), Rudolf Pástor (With)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118632710, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 January 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 1.9 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eArticulations of Capital \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProposes a new theorization of global value chains as part of a conjunctural economic geography\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDevelops a set of conceptual and theoretical arguments concerning the regional embeddedness of global production\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on longitudinal empirical research from over 20 years in the Bulgarian and Slovakian apparel industries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMakes a major intervention into the debate over the economic geographies of European integration and EU enlargement\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One Articulating Capital in Global Production Networks 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Articulations of Capital 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Economic Geography, Conjuncture and the Dynamics of Capital 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two Working off the Past: Context and Complexity in Apparel Global Production Networks 53\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Working in the Post‐Socialist Apparel Economy 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Managing Europe’s Golden Bands: Trade Policy and the Regulation of Production Networks (with Robert Begg) 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Transformations, Legacies and Networks: The State and Market Globalizations (with Robert Begg and Milan Bucě k) 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three Industrial Dynamics, Regionalization and the Conjunctural Economy of Global \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eProduction Networks 135\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Theorizing Transition and the Dynamics of Capital: The Diverse Trajectories of Post‐socialist Firms (with\u003cbr\u003eRobert Begg, Milan Buček, Poli Roukova, and Rudolf Pastor) 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Border Reconfigurations and the Frontiers of Capital (with Robert Begg, Milan Buček, and Rudolf Pastor) 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Regionalization and the Palimpsests of Production: Delocalization, Legacies and Firm Differentiation (with Robert Begg and Poli Roukova) 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Cultural Economies of Post‐Socialism: Ethnicity, Garage Firms and Regional Markets (with Robert Begg and Poli Roukova) 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four Conclusion 237\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Conclusion 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 1 Firm-level Restructuring in the Slovak Textiles and Clothing Sector, 2004–2013 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 2 Key to Figure 9.14 Dimitrovgrad Market, 2011 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 281\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Geography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Geography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Geography%20%5BRG%5D%22\"\u003eRG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand 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