1st Edition

Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation

Edited By Jason Struna Copyright 2015
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

The global capitalism perspective is a unique research program focused on understanding relatively recent developments in worldwide social, economic, and political practices related to globalization. At its core, it seeks to contextualize the rearticulation of nation-states and broad geographic regions into highly interdependent networks of production and distribution, and in so doing explain... Read more

1. Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation  2. Global Capitalism and its Anti-‘Human Face’: Organic Intellectuals and Interpretations of the Crisis  3. Transnational Capitalist Class: What’s Race Got to Do With It? Everything!  4. Networks of Cognitive Praxis: Transnational Class Formation from Below?  5. The New Structuring of Corporate Ownership  6. Translateral Politics, Class Conflict, and the State  7. The Icon Project: The Transnational Capitalist Class in Action

Biography

Jason Struna is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California Riverside. His dissertation is titled, ‘Handling Globalization: Labor, Capital, and Class in the Globalized Warehouse and Distribution Center’, and is based on ethnographic research on warehouse workers in Southern California.