Social movements for global capitalism: the transnational capitalist class in action

Sklair, Leslie

doi:10.1080/096922997347733

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“…Sklair (1997) Various institutions have performed the function of articulating strategies in this common concern: the Trilateral Commission, the OECD, the IMF, and the World Bank all serve as foci for generating the policy consensus for the maintenance and defense of the system…Prestigious business schools and international management training programs socialize new entrants to the values, lifestyles, language (in the sense of shared concepts, usages, and symbols), and business practices of the class.…”

Section: A Neo-gramscian Approach To Global Production Networkmentioning

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Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

Levy

2008

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438

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This paper develops a critical framework on international management and production that draws from the literatures on global commodity chains and global production networks (GPNs), from institutional entrepreneurship, as well as from neo-Gramscian theory in international political economy. The framework views GPNs as integrated economic, political, and discursive systems, in which market and political power are intertwined. The framework highlights the contingent stability of GPNs as well as the potential for actors to engage politically in contestation and collaboration over system governance and the distribution of benefits. The framework offers a multidimensional and multi-level approach to understanding power relations, ideology, and value appropriation in GPNs. The framework is valuable for examining the intersection of GPNs with charged political and social issues such as sweatshops and incomes for coffee growers, and the role of geography as a source of stability and tension in these networks.2

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Section: A Neo-gramscian Approach To Global Production Networkmentioning

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Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

Levy

2008

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438

313

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“…Hence, Winner's radical critique of financialization was as follows: finance-driven mechanization and the enforcement of derivative-based financial technologies have come to shape a new power complex that abandons the higher commitments of democracy and Bildung. Radical scholars, accordingly, refer to a 'crisis of democracy' or 'post-democracy' that is produced by financialization (Guéhenno 1993;Bethke Elshtain 1995;Lasch 1995;Sklair 1997;Crouch 2004;Winner 2004;Lazzarato 2009;Sim 2010;Swyngedouw 2011;Habermas 2011;Blühdorn 2013;Wright 2013;Walby 2013: 503;Schenner 2016). Among other things, radical scholars witness this crisis of democracy in the impoverishment of everyday language and the loss of imagination of political alternatives.…”

Section: The Third 'Crisis Of Modernity' Discoursementioning

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‘Crises of Modernity’ Discourses and the Rise of Financial Technologies in a Contested Mechanized World

Ossewaarde

2017

Philos. Technol.

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The aim of this article is to provide a discussion of scholarly 'crisis of modernity' discourses that have developed in the field of social philosophy. Revisiting past and present discourses can be illuminating in at least three ways: it can reveal the broader picture of the present financialized and technologized world and the rise of financial technologies; it can provide scholars with new vocabularies, concepts, and metaphors to comprehend present-day phenomena and developments; and it can reveal the variety of commitments that are possible, today, too. This article starts with a discussion of the original 'crisis of modernity' discourses (avant la lettre), in which the clashing arguments of Comte and Tocqueville are featured, and a discussion of a second 'crisis of modernity' that developed in the context of the 'Great Depression.' A third 'crisis of modernity' discourse emerged in the wake of the financial crises of the 1970s. Such crises are still ongoing and discussed within the boundaries of the third 'crisis of modernity' discourse. How financial technologies do and do not fit within this third discourse is discussed in the remainder of this article.

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“…En estos centros económicos, las personas que desempeñan cargos directivos y de responsabilidad, dirigen y controlan los principales sectores económicos mundiales. La "élite directiva" (Beaverstock, 2005) o "clase capitalista transnacional" (Sklair, 1997), está compuesta por "trabajadores móviles" que deciden, por motivación personal, desarrollar una actividad laboral en el extranjero que les permita ascender en su trayectoria profesional. Estas experiencias son valoradas en tanto en cuanto son una forma de adquirir un carácter cosmopolita al adaptarse a diferentes entornos culturales sin esfuerzo gracias al capital económico, social y simbólico (Bourdieu, 1989) reunido en su trayectoria profesional.…”

Section: Los Expatriados: Migrantes Con Recursos Y Actores De La Moviunclassified

“…Sin embargo, algunos investigadores han criticado estas categorías por tender a la homogenización del grupo (Beaverstock, 2005;Sklair, 1997), así como por la escasa atención prestada al análisis de las prácticas diarias en el espacio local (Yeoh y Willis, 2002Meier, 2015). Desde la aproximación postcolonial, la categoría de Westerner parte de la jerarquización del mundo en centro y periferia, para englobar a los "expatriados blancos" de los países del centro, a los profesionales independientes y a los "aventureros masculinos y blancos" (Meier, 2015: 5).…”

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“El paro o Argelia”: la expatriación de los españoles en Argelia como salida laboral

Fernández

Souvannavong

2017

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Social movements for global capitalism: the transnational capitalist class in action

Cited by 176 publications

References 15 publications

Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

‘Crises of Modernity’ Discourses and the Rise of Financial Technologies in a Contested Mechanized World

“El paro o Argelia”: la expatriación de los españoles en Argelia como salida laboral

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