Everyday Politics of the World Economy

By - EVE

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007

ISBN 10 - 0521701635

ISBN 13 - 9780521701631

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - International economic relations

Shelf No - 17

Call Number - 337 EVE

Physical Description - x, 254 pages ; 23 cm

Notes - Includes Index

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How do our everyday actions shape and transform the world economy? This volume of original essays argues that current scholarship in international political economy (IPE) is too highly focused on powerful states and large international institutions. The contributors examine specific forms of 'everyday' actions to demonstrate how small-scale actors and their decisions can shape the global economy. They analyse a range of seemingly ordinary or subordinate actors, including peasants, working classes and trade unions, lower-middle and middle classes, female migrant labourers and Eastern diasporas, and examine how they have agency in transforming their political and economic environments. This book offers a novel way of thinking about everyday forms of change across a range of topical issues including globalisation, international finance, trade, taxation, consumerism, labour rights and regimes. It will appeal to students and scholars of politics, international relations, political economy and sociology.

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