Objections to Economic Restructuring and the Strategies of Coercion: An Analytical Evaluation of Policies and Practices in Australia and the United States

Clark, Gordon L.; McKay, John P.; Missen, Geoff; Webber, Michael

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“…Cases of economic restructuring in general and industrial restructuring in particular are distinguished in terms of the entities restructured, the role of the state, and the nature of the labor market (Webber et al, 1991). An industrial restructuring`package' is then offered by the economic and political elite as an idealized solution benefiting society, though it may primarily represent a strategy to protect and enhance the industrial interests of the economic core (Clark et al, 1992). Industrial restructuring comprises changes that involve the divergent interests of social groups, competition between corporations, and market decisions.…”

Section: Industrial Restructuringmentioning

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The Restructuring Stages of Israeli Arab Industrial Entrepreneurship

Sofer

Schnell

2000

Environ Plan A

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IntroductionIsraeli Arab industry expanded rapidly between the 1970s and the 1980s. The number of plants grew from a few dozens in the 1950s, to 450 in the early 1980s, to over 900 in the early 1990s (Atrash, 1992; Czamanski and Meir-Brodnitz, 1986;Schnell et al, 1995). About one hundred plants have grown in size, employing dozens of workers and using relatively advanced modes of operation. Most plants, however, have remained small in size, employing up to five workers, using simple technologies and modes of operation. Despite these developments, Israeli Arab industry has remained marginal to the national economy (Haidar, 1993). Moreover, since the mid-1990s, the number of plants operating has decreased because of the closure of many textiles and clothing sewing shops, and the transfer of production to facilities in Jordan and Egypt.The underlying point of view taken in this paper is that there is an uneven pattern of industrial development in Israel, created, preserved, and supported by forces at the national levelöessentially by the government, large corporations, and owners of industrial capital. Based on that assumption, the main argument here is that the historical stages of the industrialization process of Israeli Arab settlements have been

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Section: Industrial Restructuringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Restructuring Stages of Israeli Arab Industrial Entrepreneurship

Sofer

Schnell

2000

Environ Plan A

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“…According to Clark et al . (), from the firm to the community and the nation, restructuring should be thought of as a process of strategic decision making whose design is shaped by an inherited past and a planned future. Case studies of restructuring show that plans for structural change are normally conceived during moments of crisis.…”

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The political economy and geopolitical context of India's economic crisis, 1990–91

Ahmed

2014

Singap J Trop Geogr

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The Indian economy suffered a balance of payment crisis in 1991, which provided the context for the rolling out of neoliberal policies, also referred to as the New Economic Policy in India. This paper examines the national and global causes and context of India's economic crisis and adoption of neoliberal policies. While grounding my analysis in historical-geographical materialism, I argue that India's economic crisis was a product of certain contingent conditions. I draw attention to India's pre-neoliberal economic regime and analyse how the earlier-established relationship between revenue generation and expenditure ran into trouble; what changes occurred in the organization and management of revenues and capital; nature of interventions of the state in the circulation of capital; changes in the physical aspects of circulation of commodities, together with foreign trade and the formation of the 'world market'; and the rise of the United States as the only global superpower. I conclude that India's economic crisis of 1990-91, and the neoliberal policies that followed, are products of contingent historical and geographical conditions. A teleological approach towards examining global capitalism and production of economic crisis often neglect such contingencies and provide a set of causalities that may, at best, be classified as incomplete.

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“…There is by now a rich literature attesting to the ways in which social relations-particularly those of class and gender-are transformed (and implicated in) processes of industrial restructuring. Schematically this literature includes microscale studies of "restructuring in situ," which track the impact of corporate strategies on plant-level industrial relations (e.g., Florida and Kenney 1992) or trace its effects through gendered divisions of labor to changing practices of social reproduction in the home (Gibson 1991;Cravey 1998;Meier 1999;Safa 1999); mesoscale analyses, focused on either restructuring's effects on labor markets and spatial divisions of labor or the reorganization of production and the linking of new forms of interfirm relationships to the rise of new industrial districts and the fortunes of regional economies (Massey 1984;Hudson 1989;Clark, McKay, Missen, and Webber 1992); and macroscale studies, which attempt to explain different national and regional forms of capitalism by reference to regionally distinctive networks of social relations that regulate underlying processes of accumulation (Aglietta 1979;Peck and Miyamachi 1994;Tickell and Peck 1995;Jessop 1995;Goodwin and Painter 1997).…”

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Grounding Globalization: The Prospects and Perils of Linking Economic Processes of Globalization to Environmental Outcomes

Bridge

2002

Economic Geography

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This article advances the argument that economic geography has prioritized the understanding of processes over the evaluation of outcomes. Contemporary research on globalization-like earlier studies of industrial restructuring, deindustrialization, and "localities"-tends to address outcomes only in so far as they shed light on underlying processes. Yet the earlier generation of research also produced a number of instructive methodological and epistemological critiques that now frame current attempts to understand the socioenvironmental effects of globalization. Three of these challenges are outlined in the context of research on the environmental effects of foreign direct investment: linking processes with outcomes; bridging across scales; and demonstrating the "difference that difference makes." The article contrasts the limited engagement by economic geographers with globalization's environmental effects with a growing body of work outside geography. Preliminary links between this well-developed, external literature and proximate bodies of geographic scholarship are put forth to demonstrate how hybrid approaches may best be able to capture the ways in which processes of economic globalization drive environmental outcomes. The article concludes with a worked example of ongoing research into the environmental impacts of foreign direct investment to illustrate how such an approach may engage globalization "on the ground."

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Objections to Economic Restructuring and the Strategies of Coercion: An Analytical Evaluation of Policies and Practices in Australia and the United States

Cited by 10 publications

References 31 publications

The Restructuring Stages of Israeli Arab Industrial Entrepreneurship

The Restructuring Stages of Israeli Arab Industrial Entrepreneurship

The political economy and geopolitical context of India's economic crisis, 1990–91

Grounding Globalization: The Prospects and Perils of Linking Economic Processes of Globalization to Environmental Outcomes

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