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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795052403321

Titolo

Western capitalism in transition : global processes, local challenges / / edited by Alberta Andreotti, David Benassi and Yuri Kazepov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2018

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2018

ISBN

1-5261-2242-1

1-5261-2240-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

330.122

Soggetti

Capitalism

Vergleichende Kapitalismusforschung

Wirtschaftsordnung

Westliche Staaten

Kapitalismus

Aufsatzsammlung

Aufsatzsammlung

Westliche Welt

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Enthält 17 Beiträge

Sommario/riassunto

Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical exploration of capitalism in transition, bringing together cutting edge, world renowned scholars who reflect from different disciplinary points of view. This collection engages with the primarily Western themes of welfare capitalism and social fragmentation. Structured over three parts, the book analyses; the transformations of welfare societies and capitalism with a focus on



South European welfare states and their (in)capacity to tackle poverty; the transformation of work and migration with a special attention to informality and the question of social rights; and the transformation of cities.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, No poverty.