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With over 120,000 copies sold worldwide, Peter Dicken's Global Shift has been the definitive work on economic globalization for almost 30 years now. A tried, trusted and unrivalled resource for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers across the social sciences, this is a seminal text from an internationally renowned author.

Global Shift is - quite simply - the definitive work on economic globalization. The extensive use of graphics, lack of jargon, and clear definition of terms has made it the standard work for the social sciences.

The Seventh Edition has been completely updated using the latest available sources. It maps the changing centres of gravity of the global economy and explains the global financial crisis. Each chapter has been extensively rewritten and new material introduced to explain the most recent empirical developments; ideas on production, distribution, consumption; and corporate governance. Global Shift provides:

• The most comprehensive and up-to-date explanation of economic globalization available, examining the role of transnational corporations, states, labour, consumers, organizations in civil society, and the power relations between them.
• A clear guide to how the global economy is being transformed through the operation of global production networks involving transnational corporations, states, interest groups and technology.
• Extended discussion of problems and institutions of global governance in the context of the global economic crisis and of the role of corporate social responsibility.
• A suite of extensive online ancillaries for both students and lecturers, including author videos, case studies, lecture notes, and free access to specially selected journal articles related to each chapter.?

There is only one definitive guide to economic globalization for the social sciences: and that's Peter Dicken's Global Shift.

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1. What in the World Is Going On? 1
The end of the world as we knew it? 1
 
Conflicting perspectives on ‘globalization’4

Grounding ‘globalization’: geography really does matter 6

I. The Changing Contours of the Global Economy 11

2. The Centre of Gravity Shifts: Transforming the Geographies of the Global Economy sample 13

The importance of taking a long view: the imprint of past geographies 14

Roller-coasters and interconnections 16

Global shifts: the changing contours of the global economic map 24

The centre of gravity has shifted 35

II. Processes of Global Shift 47

3. Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy 49

Connections, connections 50

Institutional macro-structures of the global economy 52

Global production network PNs 54

Even in a globalizing world, economic activities are geographically localized 67

Networks of networks 71

4. Technological Change: ‘Gales of Creative Destruction’74

Technology and economic transformation 75

Processes of technological change: an evolutionary perspective 75

Time–space shrinking technologies 87

Technological innovations in products, production systems and organizational forms 99

Geographies of innovation 106

5. Transnational Corporations: The Primary ‘Movers and Shapers’ of the Global Economy 114

The myth of the global corporation 115

Why firms transnationalize 118

How firms transnationalize 123 

TNCs as ‘networks within networks’130

Configuring the TNCs’ internal networks 136

TNCs within networks of externalized relationships 153

Perpetual change: reshaping TNCs’ internal and external networks 165

6. The State Really Does Matter 173

‘The state is dead’ – oh no it isn’t! 174

States as containers 178

States as regulators 183

States as collaborators 207

III. Winning and Losing in the Global Economy 227

7. The Uneasy Relationship Between Transnational Corporations and States: Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration 229

The ties that bind 230 

Bargaining processes between TNCs and states 233

8. ‘Capturing Value’ Within Global Production Networks 251

Placing places in GPNs 251

Creating, enhancing and capturing value in GPNs 253

Upgrading (or downgrading) of local economies within GPNs 258

9. ‘Destroying Value’? Environmental Impacts of Global Production Networks 279

Production–distribution–consumption as a system of materials flows and balances 280

Disturbing the delicate balance of life on earth: damaging the earth’s atmosphere 282

Fouling the nest: creating, disposing and recycling waste 292


10. Winning and Losing: Where You Live Really Matters 304

Location matters 305

Incomes and poverty 308

Where will the jobs come from? 322

Populations on the move 340

11. Making the World a Better Place 354

‘The best of all possible worlds’? 355

TNCs and corporate social responsibility 357

States and issues of global governance 363

A better world? 380

IV. The Picture in Different Sectors 393

12. ‘Making Holes in the Ground’: The Extractive Industries 395

Beginning at the beginning 396

Production circuits in the extractive industries 397

Global shifts in the extractive industries 400

Volatile demand 402

Technologies of exploring, extracting, refining, distributing 404

The centrality of state involvement in the extractive industries 408

Corporate strategies in the extractive industries 413

Resources, reserves and futures 419

13. ‘We Are What We Eat’: The Agro-food Industries 423

Transformation of the food economy: the ‘local’ becomes ‘global’ 424

Agro-food production circuits 425

Global shifts in the high-value agro-food industries 427

Consumer choices – and consumer resistances 430

Transforming technologies in agro-food production 433

The role of the state 437

Corporate strategies in the agro-food industries 440

14. ‘Fabric-ating Fashion’: The Clothing Industries 451

A highly contentious industry 452

The clothing production circuit 452

Global shifts in the clothing industries 453

Changing patterns of consumption 454

Technology and production costs 456

The role of the state 460

Corporate strategies in the clothing industries 462

Regionalizing production networks in the clothing industries 469

15. ‘Wheels of Change’: The Automobile Industry 477

All change? 478

The automobile production circuit 478

Global shifts in automobile production and trade 480

Changing patterns of consumption 482

Where will the jobs come from? 484

Over-dependence on a narrow economic base 487

Populations on the move 489

16. ‘Making the World Go Round’: Advanced Business Services 510

The centrality of advanced business services 511

The structure of ABS 512

Dynamics of the markets for ABS 541

Technological innovation and ABS 516

The role of the state: regulation, deregulation, reregulation 519

Corporate strategies in ABS 521

Geographies of ABS 530

17. ‘Making the Connections, Moving the Goods’: Logistics and Distribution Services 539

Taking logistics and distribution for granted 540

The structure of logistics and distribution services 541

The dynamics of the market for logistics services 544

Technological innovation and logistics and distribution services 545

The role of the state: regulation and deregulation of logistics and distribution services 550

Corporate strategies in logistics and distribution services 553

Logistics ‘places’: key geographical nodes on the global logistics map 562

Bibliography 566
Indedx 597