Globalization and the City

Globalization and the City
Author: Collectif
Publisher: innsbruck University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2016-09-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3903122238

The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor and for the organization of mass demand. Further, as places of intense and continuous interactions, cities are the locations par excellence for global history to take place. Thus, there is a need to study the history of cities in connection with the history of globalization from this perspective. This book is dedicated to contribute to the still underdeveloped but growing literature connecting the history of cities worldwide and their relation to global processes. The authors do so from various disciplinary backgrounds and by referring to different times and places. We visit ancient Alexandria, nineteenth century Zanzibar, and modern-day São Paolo, among others, and we view these cities not only in their globality, but also through their heritage, their economic relevance, their architecture, or financial flows connecting them. Further, the book also contains systematic considerations about “global city”, especially the general role of cities in development, cities in global history teaching, and cities' relationships to global commodity chains.

Ports, Cities, and Global Supply Chains

Ports, Cities, and Global Supply Chains
Author: James Wang
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351909851

Global trends in policy and technology related fields are rapidly reshaping the port industry worldwide. International in scope, this volume provides multidisciplinary insights into the role port cities adopt in dealing with global supply chains. Throughout the book, concepts of strategic management, supply chain management, port and transport economics and economic and transport geography are applied to offer an in-depth understanding of the processes underlying global supply chains and associated spatial and functional dynamics in port-cities. The book also discusses policy outcomes and implications relevant to port-cities positioned in different segments of global supply chains.

Commodity Chains and World Cities

Commodity Chains and World Cities
Author: Ben Derudder
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1444351966

Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. This book assesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the most notable analytical frameworks - the world city network framework and the global commodity chain framework. Transnational spatial relations have become a key analytical lens through which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization Brings together contributions of key researchers from different backgrounds and different parts of the world Offers a set of original approaches to the study of the networked geography of globalization

Food Supply Chains in Cities

Food Supply Chains in Cities
Author: Emel Aktas
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2020-05-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030340651

This book analyses the food sector which has economic and political significance for all countries. A highly fragmented and heavily regulated sector, it has become increasingly complex owing to globalisation and geographical decoupling of production and consumption activities. The urban population of the world has grown from 746 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2014 and more than 70% of the population is anticipated to be living in urban areas by 2050. Food supply chains play a vital role in feeding the world’s most populous cities, whilst underpinning transportation, storage, distribution, and waste management activities for the sustainability of the urban environment. That is why, this book presents the latest research on food supply chain management with a focus on urbanisation. The contributions involve food distribution in cities, food waste minimisation, and food security with a focus on models and approaches to achieve more sustainable and circular food supply chains.

Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations

Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations
Author: Andrea Komlosy
Publisher: Studies in Global Social Histo
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004448032

"This edited volume provides a collection of historical and contemporary commodity chain studies by placing labor at the centre of analysis. A global historical perspective demonstrates that splitting production processes to different, hierarchically connected locations are by no means new phenomena. The book is thus an important and valuable contribution to commodity chain research, but also to the fields of social-economic and global labor history"--

Geographies of Consumption

Geographies of Consumption
Author: Juliana Mansvelt
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2005-04-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780761974307

An overview of the research into consumer behaviour and the use of space, including the internet, identity, connections through commodity chains, commercial culture and morality.

From Silver to Cocaine

From Silver to Cocaine
Author: Steven Topik
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2006-07-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822337669

DIVClaims that the history of commodities in Latin America (or anywhere) cannot be understood without considering their global context, often from a long-term perspective./div

Global Production

Global Production
Author: Edna Bonacich
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1994-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781439901106

Pacific Rim scholars look at globalization's impact on international economics.

Global City Makers

Global City Makers
Author: Michael Hoyler
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-09-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1785368958

Global City Makers provides an in-depth account of the role of powerful economic actors in making and un-making global cities. Engaging critically and constructively with global urban studies from a relational economic geography perspective, the book outlines a renewed agenda for global cities research. Focusing on financial services, management consultancy, real estate, commodity trading and maritime industries, the detailed studies in this volume are located across the globe to incorporate major world cities such as London, New York and Tokyo as well as globalizing cities including Mexico City, Hamburg and Mumbai.

Value Chains

Value Chains
Author: Intan Suwandi
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1583677828

Award-winning book showcases case studies uncovering the exploitation of labor and class in the Global South Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy—Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, Value Chains examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, this book offers a deft empirical analysis of unit labor costs that is closely related to Marx’s own theory of exploitation. Value Chains uncovers the concrete processes through which multinational corporations, located primarily in the Global North, capture value from the Global South. We are brought face to face with various state-of-the-art corporate strategies that enforce “economical” and “flexible” production, including labor management methods, aimed to reassert the imperial dominance of the North, while continuing the dependency of the Global South and polarizing the global economy. Case studies of Indonesian suppliers exemplify the growing burden borne by the workers of the Global South, whose labor creates the surplus value that enriches the capitalists of the North, as well as the secondary capitals of the South. Today, those who control the value chains and siphon off the profits are primarily financial interests with vast economic and political power—the power that must be broken if the global working class is to liberate itself. Suwandi’s book depicts in concrete detail the relations of unequal exchange that structure today’s world economy. This study, up-to-date and richly documented, puts labor and class back at the center of our understanding of the world capitalist system.