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"In this account of the offshore economy, Ronen Palan investigates the legal spaces, unregulated and yet maintained and supported by the state system, that have emerged for purposes of international finance, tax havens, export processing zones, flags of convenience, and e-commerce." "Palan believes that a rapidly expanding offshore economy is now producing a new market in sovereignty; states have discovered that their authority to create law may be...
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Examines the gendered nature of social reproduction (i.e. household chores, child care and biological reproduction) and export production in the foreign-owned assembly plants in Nogales and Ciadad Madero at the border with the United States. Studies the intersection of class and gender dynamics in the radical transformation of Mexican industrial strategy, from a State-led import substitution emphasis to a neoliberal export-orientation based on transnational...
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This book presents an analysis of contemporary Central American history from a social perspective and, more specifically, from that of one of its main components: the world of labor. Despite undeniable changes, this world is still made up of three basic logics: Labor markets reflect an inability to generate sufficient employment, labor relations remain precarious, and labor subjects and actors solid enough for their voice to be heard have not managed...
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"Expressed in such new institutions as GATT, NAFTA, the World Trade Organizations, and Maastricht, as well as by the development schemes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, economic globalization has been bulldozed through legislative bodies throughout the world, with scant public debate or discourse." "These tremendous changes are hailed by their backers as leading to a new era or prosperity and peace, but is this true?" "Now,...
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