Contagious capitalism [[electronic resource] ] : globalization and the politics of labor in China / / Mary Elizabeth Gallagher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461142003321
• Autore: Gallagher Mary Elizabeth <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2005
• ISBN: 1-283-13336-9; 9786613133366; 1-4008-3729-4
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.951
• Soggetti: Investments, Foreign - Government policy - China; Investments, Foreign - Political aspects - China; Labor - China; Capitalism - China; Globalization - Economic aspects - China; Electronic books.; China Commercial policy; China Politics and government 1976-2002
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2001.; "Third printing, and first paperback printing, 2007."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Contagious Capitalism -- Chapter 3. Blurring Boundaries: Foreign Direct Investment and the Evolution of Enterprise Ownership in China -- Chapter 4. The Unmitigated Market -- Chapter 5. "Use the Law as Your Weapon!" -- Chapter 6. From State-owned to National Industry -- Conclusion. The Contradiction of "Reform and Openness" -- Appendix: Firms and Interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "reform and openness" will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and the general relationship between economic liberalization and democratization. ; Moreover, it analyzes the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization on Chinese labor politics. Market reforms and increased integration with the global economy have brought about unprecedented economic growth and social change in China during the last quarter of a century. Contagious Capitalism contends that FDI liberalization played several roles in the process of China's reforms. First, it placed competitive pressure on the state sector to produce more efficiently, thus necessitating new labor practices. Second, it allowed difficult and politically sensitive labor reforms to be extended to other parts of the economy. Third, it caused a reformulation of one of the key ideological debates of reforming socialism: the relative importance of public industry. China's growing integration with the global economy through FDI led to a new focus of debate--away from the public vs. private industry dichotomy and toward a nationalist concern for the fate of Chinese industry. In comparing China with other Eastern European and Asian economies, two important considerations come into play, the book argues: China's pattern of ownership diversification and China's mode of integration into the global economy. This book relates these two factors to the success of economic change without political liberalization and addresses the way FDI liberalization has affected relations between workers and the ruling Communist Party. Its conclusion: reform and openness in this context resulted in a strengthened Chinese state, a weakened civil society (especially labor), and a delay in political liberalization.

Food festivals and local development in italy : a viewpoint from economic anthropology / / Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910468242003321
• Autore: Fontefrancesco Michele Filippo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]; ©2020
• ISBN: 3-030-53321-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2020.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XLVI, 179 p. 30 illus., 20 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 394.26945
• Soggetti: Food festivals - Italy; Rural development - Italy; Economic anthropology - Italy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: Introduction: Rural marginality and its development -- Chapter 2: Food festivals and the Italian foodscape -- Chapter 3: Food festivals as identity devices -- Chapter 4: Food festivals as political devices -- Chapter 5: Food festivals as economic devices -- Chapter 6: Conclusions: Food festivals as development devices.
• Sommario/riassunto: What does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas? How can these celebrations pave the way to a better future for the local communities? This book is addressing these questions contributing to the ongoing debate about the future of rural peripheries in Europe. The volume is based on the ethnographic research conducted in Italy, a country internationally known for its food tradition and one of the European countries where the gap between rural and urban space is most pronounced. It offers an anthropological analysis of food festivals, exploring the transformational role they have to change and develop rural communities. Although the festivals aim mostly at tourism, they contribute in a wider way to the life of the rural communities, acting as devices through which a community redefines itself, reinforces its sociality, reshapes the perception and use of the surrounding environment. In so doing, thus, the books suggests to read the festivals not just as celebrations driven by food fashion, but ; rather fundamental grassroots instruments to contrast the effects of rural marginalization and pave the way to a possible better future for the community. Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, in Italy. His research focuses on themes of economic anthropology and, in particular, in issues concerning local development in Europe and Eastern Africa. .