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The Global Division of Labour

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-56718-5

ISBN: 978-1-349-57564-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 11, 2015

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Introduction: The Dynamics of Global Labour Division

Münch, Richard

Pages: 1 –26

[The globalization of societal life looks back upon a long history (O’Rourke and Williamson 2002; Osterhammel and Petersson 2006; Stearns 2009). Our present time excels, however, in having made globalization a first-rate topic of social science research, public debate and politics. Among many...
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The Field of Global Trade: IOs, NGOs and Transnational Corporations

Münch, Richard

Pages: 27 –68

[Global free trade is generally considered the dynamic force of unleashing entrepreneurial profit maximization. The businesses operating on the world market are released from national restrictions of social partnership and public responsibility. Production is shifted to countries with the lowest...
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The Principles of Global Trade: The WTO

Münch, Richard

Pages: 69 –102

[The world trade order is the central field of struggles for harmonization between the social integration of the nation states and the functional integration of the world economy. It would be a mistake, however, to look at this harmonization exclusively with regard to the differentiation between...
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Development and Inequality under the Regime of Free Trade: What Do We Know?

Münch, Richard

Pages: 103 –147

[The liberalization of trade all over the world is among the most far-reaching forces of social change in our time, and it is also a much debated one. On the one hand there is the promise of increasing wellbeing for the whole world, while there is the fear of rising inequality, social...
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Global Labour Division, Development and Inequality; with Christian Dressel

Münch, Richard

Pages: 148 –222

[Studies carried out by Dollar (1992), Sachs and Warner (1995) and Edwards (1998) have demonstrated a long-term significant and positive correlation between openness and economic growth. A study conducted by Greenaway et al. (2002) arrives at the same conclusion but refers to the timelag of...
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Conclusion: Development and Inequality in World Society

Münch, Richard

Pages: 223 –230

[The debate about the international division of labour, coming along with expanding world trade, has gone through a number of phases characterized by dominant definitions of the situation since the 1950s (cf. Held et al. 1999). At the beginning, economic development theory and sociological...

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