The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century by Carroll, William K.

The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848134430)

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The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century by Carroll, William K.

The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class

$26.95
The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century by Carroll, William K.

The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class

$26.95
Format: Paperback
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Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William Carroll maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the world's largest corporations and related political organizations.

Carroll provides an in-depth analysis that spans the three decades of the late 20th and early 21st century, when capitalist globalization attained unprecedented momentum, propelled both by the transnationalization of accumulation and by the political paradigm of transnational neoliberalism. This has been an era in which national governments have deregulated capital, international institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the World Economic Forum have gained prominence, and production and finance have become more fully transnational, increasing the structural power of capital over communities and workers.

Within this context of transformation, the book charts the making of a transnational capitalist class, reaching beyond national forms of capitalist class organization into a global field, but facing spirited opposition from below in an ongoing struggle that is also a struggle over alternative global futures.

Author: William K. Carroll
ISBN-10: 1848134436
ISBN-13: 9781848134430
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d

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Choice 03/01/2011
By William K. Carroll
By William K. Carroll
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Bill Carroll is a professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, where he directs the Social Justice Studies Program. Among his recent books are Remaking Media (2006), Challenges and Perils (2006) and Critical Strategies for Social Research (2004). He has won the Canadian Sociological Association's John Porter Prize twice, for his books on the structure of corporate power in Canada. He has held visiting fellowships and appointments at the University of Amsterdam, Griffith University, Kanazawa State University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. He is an associate editor of The Journal Socialist Studies, and a member of Sociologists Without Borders.
Bill Carroll is a professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, where he directs the Social Justice Studies Program. Among his recent books are Remaking Media (2006), Challenges and Perils (2006) and Critical Strategies for Social Research (2004). He has won the Canadian Sociological Association's John Porter Prize twice, for his books on the structure of corporate power in Canada. He has held visiting fellowships and appointments at the University of Amsterdam, Griffith University, Kanazawa State University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. He is an associate editor of The Journal Socialist Studies, and a member of Sociologists Without Borders.

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