By John Pickles, Adrian Smith et al.
Articulations of Capital offers an obtainable, grounded, but theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of worldwide creation networks, price chains, and nearby improvement in post-socialist jap and primary Europe.
- Proposes a brand new theorization of worldwide worth chains as a part of a conjunctural financial geography
- Develops a suite of conceptual and theoretical arguments about the neighborhood embeddedness of world production
- Draws on longitudinal empirical study from over two decades within the Bulgarian and Slovakian clothing industries
- Makes an important intervention into the talk over the commercial geographies of eu integration and european enlargement
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Our aim is to read the ways in which the global and regional structures of European apparel production networks: (1) became reconfigured under market transitions in ECE and global liberalizations; (2) have witnessed a series of geographical shifts in activity over the last four decades; (3) have sustained many marginal regional economies in ECE during much of the deindustrialization and post‐socialist economic crisis in the 1990s; and (4) have attempted to cope with increasing competitive pressures in the global economy that have resulted from trade liberalization and price competition.
At times, our narrative builds on the common sense that has come to mark the literatures on the global economy, particularly global value chain (GVC) and global production network (GPN) research (Smith et al. 2002; Henderson et al. 2002; Coe et al. 2004; Gereffi et al. 1 At other times, we resist some of the central concepts of these approaches, particularly when they see low‐wage work as unskilled, outsourcing as wage‐driven, delocalization as a natural or necessary outcome of globalization, and Europe as a site in which apparel production can only be sustained temporarily until it is dislodged or dies.
We develop this argument in more detail in Chapter Two by focusing on a theory of capitalist transformations that is attentive to the relational geographies of historical legacies, social networks and linkages, and forms of institutional and regulatory embeddedness (see also Massey 2005; Yeung 2005). Overton and Murray (2014) have emphasized the articulation of different forms of capital as a way of considering the diversity of economic forms in the New Zealand wine industry. Our usage extends this by emphasizing how capital is articulated with other social formations which work to construct the forms of capital dynamics at play in the apparel industry.