Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations

320 Pages·2016·1.47 MB·English

by  John Pickles

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Articulations
of Capital
Global Production Networks and
Regional Transformations
John Pickles and Adrian Smith,
with Robert Begg, Milan Buček,
Poli Roukova and Rudolf Pástor
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Articulations of capital : global production networks and regional transformations / John
Pickles and Adrian Smith, with Robert Begg, Milan Buček, Poli Roukova and Rudolf Pástor.
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1. Economic geography. 2. Globalization–Economic aspects. 3. Clothing trade–
Bulgaria. 4. Clothing trade–Slovakia. I. Smith, Adrian, author. II. Begg, Robert Burns,
author. III. Buček, M. (Milan), author. IV. Roukova, Poli, author. V. Pástor, Rudolf,
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Contents
Series Editors’ Preface vii
List of Figures viii
List of Tables xi
Preface and Acknowledgements xii
Abbreviations xxi
Part One Articulating Capital in Global Production
Networks 1
1 Articulations of Capital 3
2 Economic Geography, Conjuncture and the Dynamics
of Capital 23
Part Two Working off the Past: Context and
Complexity in Apparel Global Production Networks 53
3 Working in the Post‐Socialist Apparel Economy 55
4 Managing Europe’s Golden Bands: Trade Policy and the
Regulation of Production Networks (with Robert Begg) 86
5 Transformations, Legacies and Networks: The State and
Market Globalizations (with Robert Begg and Milan Bucě k) 104
Part Three Industrial Dynamics, Regionalization
and the Conjunctural Economy of Global
Production Networks 135
6 Theorizing Transition and the Dynamics of Capital:
The Diverse Trajectories of Post‐socialist Firms (with
Robert Begg, Milan Buček, Poli Roukova, and Rudolf Pástor) 137
vi contents
7 Border Reconfigurations and the Frontiers of Capital
(with Robert Begg, Milan Bucě k, and Rudolf Pástor) 162
8 Regionalization and the Palimpsests of Production:
Delocalization, Legacies and Firm Differentiation
(with Robert Begg and Poli Roukova) 182
9 The Cultural Economies of Post‐Socialism: Ethnicity,
Garage Firms and Regional Markets (with Robert Begg
and Poli Roukova) 214
Part Four Conclusion 237
10 Conclusion 239
Appendix 1 Firm-level Restructuring in the Slovak Textiles and
Clothing  Sector, 2004–2013 253
Appendix 2 Key to Figure 9.14 Dimitrovgrad Market, 2011 257
References 260
Index 281
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List of Figures
1.1 Eastern and Central Europe. 5
1.2 The apparel production system. 11
1.3 Producer‐driven and buyer‐driven value chains. 12
2.1 Two circuits of capital in sub‐contracting apparel production
networks. 29
2.2 Types of economic upgrading in global apparel value chains. 32
3.1 Average net monthly wages, 2013, by country. 62
3.2 Clothing employment in East‐Central Europe, 1989–2010. 66
3.3 Clothing employment as a percentage of total manufacturing
employment in East‐Central Europe, 1989–2010. 67
3.4 Share of EU15 apparel imports by macro‐region,
1995–2012. 68
3.5 Apparel exports from selected ECE suppliers to EU15
markets, 1995–2012. 69
3.6 The changing position of apparel suppliers to the EU15
market, 1995, 2005 and 2012. 70
4.1 Unit values of EU apparel imports. 93
5.1 The structure of coercive bargaining in the socialist
enterprise. 107
5.2 The social wages and community investments of socialist
enterprises. 108
5.3 Map of Slovakia. 111
5.4 Employment in the Slovak apparel industry, 1970–2011. 112
5.5 OZKN apparel factory in the mid‐1990s. 112
5.6 Map of Bulgaria. 114
5.7 Apparel employment in Bulgaria, 1980, 1985–2012. 115
5.8 International Fair Plovdiv. 118
5.9 International Fair Plovdiv, International Exhibition of Textile,
Clothing and Leather Goods, 2004. 119