The Associative Economy: Insights beyond the Welfare State and into Post-Capitalism

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Are Welfare States in crisis? Forty years after Gunnar Myrdal's seminal Beyond the Welfare State it is still little grasped in the "reform" debate that the whole structure and economies of our societies are being transformed. This book reasserts the importance of a new employment and productive model--that of the "associative economy"--which integrates social solidarity with economic planning.

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Today's women work not one but three shifts: the first from nine to five, the second at home, and the third in their minds as they review the decisions and actions of the day. While the first and second shifts may be physically exhausting, the third shift can be psychologically rending because many women use it to second-guess their motives, doubt their choices, and question their trade-offs. Michele Bolton shows women how to turn the third shift into a source of self-awareness and self-confidence instead. Drawing from a three-year study of women in Silicon Valley and her own experiences as a working mother, Bolton explores the three most important dilemmas all women face, whether they're corporate executives, entrepreneurs, or full-time moms. She then presents women with a practical plan for facing these dilemmas, making the hard choices, and embracing their decisions.

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The Third Shift: Create Maximum Power for Self-Actualization.......2001-01-06

In this single volume, women are provided with excellent advice on how to manage hard choices in their career, their home, and (in fact) their entire life. The title refers to the "self-destructive and exhausting ritual" to which so many women become hostage. For many of them, this shift seems endless. Bolton observes: "Rather than deriving joy from their choices as women -- to work, to stay at home, to help out in the community -- many women are half-crazed by the constant demands, options, and trade-offs." She organizes her material within three Parts:

The Identity Challenge: Who Are We?

The Task Challenge: What Do We Do?

The Balance Challenge: Who Comes First?

Bolton draws upon a wealth of research (hers and others') which guides and informs her observations, recommendations, and conclusions. In the Afterword, she suggests that "In many ways, women today live in a surreal world, floating back and forth between an outdated cultural mirror that prescribes certain genderized roles, and then careening suddenly toward the possibility of an entirely new image, with as-yet-unknown life scripts and patterns for its many actors and actresses." Although written for women, this book should also be be read by men who also have "hard choices" to make. If they make the correct choices, perhaps many of the decisions made by women will be less difficult.

The Third Shift.......2000-10-27

This book is great! I am 45, a highly driven person with two school age children. I left a corporate management carreer after 15+ years feeling completely burned out and confused. Even though I knew it was not possible to be a Superwoman, I still tried to do it all. This book explains my feelings about my corporate experience and is a good guide to me for my current at home experience. I have gone back to reread it many times. I am now aware of my Third Shift, always have had it, just never gave it a name.

The Third Shift=Practical and Thoughtful Advice!.......2000-10-15

Choices are always tough, and Michele Bolton's THE THIRD SHIFT makes them so much easier to make. I am a professional woman who, like many other readers of this book, am a mother, wife and involved community member as well. The societal infrastructure for women hasn't yet caught up with our aspirations as women -- to be the best at work, to be the best at home, to change the world -- and it is because we live in this transitional era that Bolton's book is so important for women like me to read. Instead of chastizing ourselves for trying to take on so much, Bolton's study shows that questioning oneself and others is the very essence of being a successful woman. In addition to providing useful suggestions for professional women in the corporate workplace to be (and feel) more successful, Bolton also turns her attention to entrepreneurial women launching their own businesses, a move she says that is so much more than a job change, but that involves a more profound change in one's very identity. Finally, Bolton even offers several chapters of suggestions for "stay-at-home" moms, so that no matter what your life choices are, you can find out how to feel better about them by reading this book! Best of all in this book is the personal voice of the author. She writes as a researcher, academic and executive coach, but also as a woman and mother. As you read each chapter (even the ones that don't seem to relate to you directly), you often feel as though you are reading about yourself or someone you know. Take time to buy this book and then sit down and browse through it. This book won't change the world, but it will change how you look at the world, and how you feel about your place in it.

The Third Shift:Full of practical and thoughtful advice!.......2000-10-15

Excellent read for all women in and out of the workplace.......2000-07-22

I purchased this book as I am a woman about to have my first child after spending many years building a career. I found this book to be enlightening and fascinating. Like many first time older mothers I have concerns about continuing to work and raise a child. Not only did this book help me come to terms with the fact that it is okay to work and have children but it helped me understand how women's behavior in the workplace and their tendency towards self-doubt is normal. Michele Bolton's use of examples from her meetings with numerous women is an excellent way for the reader to identify with the problems that all women face on a daily basis, both at home and in the workplace.

I have very rarely read a non-fiction book that I wanted to keep reading as if it was a good novel. It is written in a great style and uses a "self awareness" versus "self-doubt" analogy in each chapter with which I claimed total identification. I am recommending this book to all my friends. Many men could also benefit from reading this book too.

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New collaboration mechanisms and organizational forms supported by networking tools not only induce new business domains but "invade" all traditional sectors and organizations, which requires thinking of each business as part of a wider economic ecosystem and environment.

The virtual enterprise / virtual organization developments, although initially technology-driven, are gathering more and more contributions of a multi-disciplinary nature, namely from the socio-economic and organizational areas. New behavioral forms, new cooperation agreements and social contracts, new liability agreements and risk negotiation practices, new ways of generating value for common developments, and correspondingly new challenges on intellectual property and ownership identification are among the major trends.

This book contains selected articles from PRO-VE'02, the third working conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Sesimbra, Portugal in May 2002. The included articles represent relevant examples of the current state of the art in virtual enterprises and other collaborative and networked organizations, and provide valuable insights on future trends and challenges. The book contents clearly reflect a growing maturation and diversification of the area. Important development directions are well represented, such as: modeling and reference architectures, formation of virtual organizations, including contract management and negotiation, operation support functionalities, infrastructures and interoperability, virtual communities and new collaboration forms, best practices and strategic planning, economic aspects and performance metrics, training and new ways of working.

Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises is essential reading for researchers, engineers, managers, practitioners, sociologists, and students in production engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, organizational science, and industrial sociology.

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Preserving And Protecting Family Business Legacies: Hearing Before The Committee On Finance, U.s. Senate

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0756724120

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Ace Your Case II: Fifteen More Consulting Cases (WetFeet Insider Guide)
WetFeet
Manufacturer: WetFeet, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Job Hunting | Job Hunting & Careers | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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Case in Point:Complete Case Interview Preparation - 5th edition

Vault Guide to the Case Interview

The Wharton MBA Case Interview Study Guide Volume II (Wharton Econometric Studies Series)

ASIN: 1582074720

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Consulting recruiters use the case interview as a primary means of evaluating interviewees. This follow up to WetFeet'ss popular Ace Your Case guide provides 15 more case questions to help consulting hopefuls sharpen their case-cracking skills.

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WHIZBAL, America's Simplest Checkbook Balancing in 3 to 6 En

Whizbal: America's Simplest Checkbook Balancing in 3 to 6 Entries
Jack Patermaster
Manufacturer: Pcb Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Personal Finance | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 053314115X

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WHIZBAL, America's Simplest Checkbook Balancing in 3 to 6 En.......2003-01-18

Whizbal is a great book because it simplifies the balancing for any kind of checkbook, a manual checkbook or computer checkbook. It has exclusive patented concepts such as "EVEN" balancing of your checkbook with the bank statement and a unique balancing format designed to accommodate EVEN balancing. Also, since Whizbal works with a bank and checkbook balance and has the exclusive EVEN balancing and format, it really is America's simplest checkbook balancing in just 3 to 6 transaction entries because it cuts most detail transaction work.

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Digital Harmony: Business, Technology & Life After Paperwork
Arno Penzias
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 088730785X

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Harmony: Business, technology & life after paperwork
Arno A Penzias
Manufacturer: HarperBusiness
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006DLE88

Book Description

From Timex to Rolex and from Levi's to Liz Clairborne, brand names conjure up definite images in the minds of most Americans. While brand loyalty may be going the way of the Edsel, the importance of product brands can't be easily dismissed.

The 3-vol. Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands is the first reference of its kind to compile the origin, evolution and current market status of some of the world's most recognizable consumer brands. It's unrivaled comprehensive scope and generous article length make it a valuable reference for students, librarians, job seekers, advertising and business professionals and other researchers who want to learn about the historical and modern development of products that have impacted American culture.

Each volume of the Encyclopedia contains approximately 200 entries, written in case-study style, that highlight interesting details including how a product originated and was first marketed, how it developed commercially and how it fares today compared with its competitors and its own past history. Peppered throughout are fun facts and amusing anecdotes pertaining to the famous -- or infamous -- marketing strategies and advertising campaigns that managed to capture the sometimes jaded viewers' attention.

Special features found throughout the Encyclopedia strengthen its usefulness. Look for helpful at-a-glance data boxes offering vital statistics including market share, major competitors, advertising agencies, parent company, address, phone and fax numbers. Researchers needing supplemental information can turn to the end of each entry for sources for further reading. Easy-to-use brand name, company and persons, advertising agency and category indexes allow users to quickly locate and cross-reference brand information.

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Much has been written about a state's use of the threat of military force or economic sanctions to change the behavior of another state. Less is known about the use of positive measures such as economic assistance and investment as a means of influence. This study looks at the ways in which government officials use economic instruments for foreign policy gains. More specifically, it examines the means by which a government can enhance its efforts at economic persuasion by inducing domestic business trade and investing in the target nation. The author demonstrates the domestic conditions under which the state can use commercial economic incentives to achieve foreign policy goals, especially where these incentives are meant to induce cooperative behavior from another state. Using the process of German-Polish reconciliation in the 1970s and 1980s as a case study, The Art of Economic Persuasion, argues that complex institutional links between the German government and the German business community enabled the government to encourage commercial relations with Poland, which supported the government's policies.

With singular access to archives of business associations in Germany as well as numerous interviews with German and Polish officials, the author carefully retraces German foreign policy towards Poland in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Art of Economic Persuasion is a theoretical addition to the literature on international political economy and international relations. It will be of interest to specialists in international relations, foreign policy, and international political economy, as well as economists, political scientists, and historians of Germany, Poland, the United States, and Cold War relations.

Patricia Davis is Assistant Professor of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame.

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International Marketing: Consuming Globally, Thinking Locally has been written for students taking a modular or one semester course in international marketing. In this book, Andrew McAuley examines key aspects of international marketing from the perspective of SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises), as well as MNCs (multinational companies). He includes numerous examples throughout the text that describe the experiences of both SMEs and MNCs. Examples and case studies are provided that illustrate situations faced by marketers in the international marketplace e.g. market entry decisions, international expansion decisions, the use of strategic alliances, dealing with distributors, and issues raised in cross cultural negotiations.

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Detailed information on conducting offshore business and investment activity in the country. Updated annually, available on a CD-ROM.

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This book is a comparative analysis of residential, social, economic, and political rights for aliens. The book analyzes the concepts of nationality and citizenship. Some foreigners are increasingly able to enjoy traditional citizenship rights though residential and/or regional citizenship. There is no previous research for Japan in addition to the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and America. Also, it is fruitful to construct the bridge among several disciplines such as jurisprudence, political science, and sociology.

Citizenship in A Global World : Comparing Citizenship Rights for Aliens (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship)

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Citizenship in A Global World : Comparing Citizenship Rights for Aliens (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship)
Palgrave Macmillan
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OV4542

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Change Your Course, It's Time for E-biz
Janusz Szajna
Manufacturer: Progress International
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

E-Commerce | Business & Culture | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0968482015

Book Description

You can find many books written for somebody and only a few written for you. "Change Your Course, It's Time for E-biz" is one of few.

"Change Your Course..." is now available in English, Polish and Russian. Soon it will also be offered in Czech, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Korean.

"Change Your Course, It's Time For E-biz" is one of the best books written in recent times.

The author effectively Links the process of change to the everyday life of every person.

The reader participates in the whole process of change presented in the book, and begins to understand that he can transform from a passive observer and participant to an active co-creator and partner obtaining his rightful profits.

Because of the content, format, as well as literary language, the book finds many readers and is an excellent tool in many businesses connected with the Internet. One can dare to say that as a writer Janusz is unequalled in this subject.

In a very skilled way he shows readers that it is indeed time to change their way of thinking and begin to see and use the various changes affecting us. Szajna gives a series of examples of disregarded, overlooked and unobserved opportunities. He skilfully transforms himself into the reader who observes his own mistakes.

Two friends meet:
- Oh I feel like going to Paris again.
- You've already been there before?
- No, but I felt like going before.

At the same time, he points out that "time past does not have to be time lost", if the information, knowledge and experience from the past is used correctly.

The author teaches simple, but useful methods of analysing changes as well as predicting the outcomes. All along, the reader partakes in the process of evolution from a passive participant to an active initiator.

The writer presents a great number of examples and statistics from independent sources, showing the direction and dynamics of modern changes and the part we play in them.

The increase in the number of Internet web sites was as such:
1993............130
1995.........23,500
1997......1,044,163
1998......3,358,989
1999......7,078,194
2002.....72,000,000

The information given is not dry facts and data, but an illustration of occurrences that touch all people. Janusz Szajna brings to light the opportunities that every one of us has in the creation of the future. Page after page, the book leads to the conclusion that it is in fact "time to change the course" because "either we will use the new technologies, or they will use us".

- You know, thanks to the Internet I have saved on my water-bill.
- How?
- I took a virtual shower in one of the houses put up for sale on it.

The reader discovers, that as a consumer of different goods he "makes business even in his sleep". Unfortunately he does it for somebody else. Yet all one has to do is change their course, change their way of thinking and change from being a regular client to a co-operator.

The author brings to attention, that one should not fear any innovations and inventions, because it is not them making business, but people.

Two workers are chatting:
- I'm sure that a computer will never replace a human at work.
- How can you be so sure?
- Because a computer can't laugh at the boss's jokes.

This is why he recommends that his readers should look for and start a partnership with a company that besides great technical subsidiaries offers a proper plan for partnership, enabling the benefit of unlimited income, as well as a proper, top-quality system of motivation and education. Szajna emphasizes that the power which results from good human relationships is much more important than the best technical subsidiaries.

The book closes with a chapter titled “If not now, then when?”, in which the author reasons that the conditions right now are the best to involve oneself in the building of one's own business.

Humour, anecdotes and stories taken straight out of life greatly portray and conclude the topics discussed in the respective chapters.

A wife about her husband: - He's very stubborn. You can't imagine how hard it is for me to convince him that he's wrong when he's right.

- Daddy you wrote a pretty good book.
- Really?! What do you want?
- It\222s true! It\222s very hard to find any one like it.
- Why do you think that?
- Because in introducing very important and serious things you use very good language, understandable for everybody. All readers will enjoy it.
- Paulina, author\222s daughter, student of language at York University in Toronto

I hope you will enjoy this book. Thank YOU for your interest in \223Change Your Course, It\222s Time for E-biz\224.
- Editor

Now, still available is the first book written by Janusz Szajna \223Network Marketing \226 the Way of Life\224, printed in Czech, English, French, German, Polish, Romanian and Russian. It\222s absolutely the best book for everybody who wants to know, understand and use Network Marketing for developing his or her own business. The author introduces and describes Network Marketing\222s principles, mechanisms and secrets of this type of industry. He also answers the many questions and doubts concerned with this business. Janusz Szajna does not claim that Network Marketing is the only way, the only route through life. He claims and proves that it is the best one.

This book is used by many network-marketers in many countries.

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Making the Work Opportunity Tax Credit a Success for Small Business: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, U.S. House of Representatives

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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Excellent Guide Not Enough Cases

Marginally helpful and overpriced

Get the newer (Sept. 2000) addition

Bad walk-throughs

An indispensable Guide!

Vault.com Guide to Case Interviews, 3rd Edition
Mark Asher
Manufacturer: Vault.com
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Case in Point:Complete Case Interview Preparation - 5th edition

ASIN: 1581311222

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Excellent Guide Not Enough Cases.......2001-01-14

This is an excellent book for undergraduates who are looking to prepare themselves for an interview in consulting or finance. I took account a couple years ago and didn't remember everything about it. But this book gives a good review of all the necessary topics that would be needed during an interview. It covers business strategy technics, marketing strategies, and finance related topics. While the review covers half of the book, another tenth is focused on some real interviews from MBA students or other companies. Another quarter is actual case interviews. The author does go through on how to answer these cases. However, the maximum length give to each case was 2 pages. To me, that was not nearly enough for a case. And also, there are only about 15 real cases, there are about 15 practice ones. The last 15 percent is dedicated to guesstimates and brainteasers.

So overall, it's a good book; however, I wish there were more cases.

Marginally helpful and overpriced.......2000-11-03

This book is poorly written, inconsistent, and not very helpful. It's also very overpriced. You might have better luck with another guide (Wetfeet.com). But avoid this as it's a waste of money and time.

Get the newer (Sept. 2000) addition.......2000-10-14

Thanks Vault,

I would make sure to get the updated addition:

Vault.com Guide to Case Interviews, 3rd Edition by Mark Asher (Paperback - September 2000)

Bad walk-throughs.......2000-06-03

This book has some really good explanations of the case interview format, pointers on conduct and overviews of frameworks. However, it had some really bad case examples. The sample solutions given did not seem to follow the clean logical and analytical approach that Wet Feet Press' "15 Cases" displayed for their sample responses. In fact, the answers given in this book are a good example of what to avoid: a lot of flair and big words and not a whole lot of case-solving.

An indispensable Guide!.......1999-11-24

It was the perfect reference guide for my consulting innterviews- especially the guesstimate questions. Also, a great companion to the Vault.com Guide to Consulting!

Book Description

A college education has been the key to higher real wages and living standards. But as college enrollment has increased, so has the difficulty in paying for higher education.

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How True it All Is.......2000-03-28

As a middle-class student trying to work his way through an education, I know first-hand that college tuition costs are incredibly out of whack with the income of the populous. By reading this book, not only did I receive insight on how to keep myself in school while slaving through the minimum-wage jungle, but also gave me hope. Knowing that I'm not alone helps tremendously, and gives me new strength to keep on going

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This work argues that the coming of "a new consumerism" in the affluent societies marks a distinct phase of modernity. Limits of production no longer confine consumption to what is necessarty or instrumental. Demands for increasing production no longer shape ideology and culture as they did previously. Contemporary themes of morality, the body, citizenship and inequality are here placed in a new theoretical light. The book provides examples of new codes of happiness in consuming products, culture and entertainment. Issues of nutrition, consumer policy, environmental risk and health are discussed in the light of these new codes.

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The world's multinational enterprises face a spell of rough weather, political economist Ray Vernon argues, not only from the host countries in which they have established their subsidiaries, but also from their home countries. Such enterprises--a few thousand in number, including Microsoft, Toyota, IBM, Siemens, Samsung, and others--now generate about half of the world's industrial output and half of the world's foreign trade; so any change in the relatively benign climate in which they have operated over the past decade will create serious tensions in international economic relations.

The warnings of such a change are already here. In the United States, interests such as labor are increasingly hostile to what they see as the costs and uncertainties of an open economy. In Europe, those who want to preserve the social safety net and those who feel that the net must be dismantled are increasingly at odds. In Japan, the talk of "hollowing out" takes on a new urgency as the country's "lifetime employment" practices are threatened and as public and private institutions are subjected to unaccustomed stress. The tendency of multinationals in different countries to find common cause in open markets, strong patents and trademarks, and international technical standards has been viewed as a loss of national sovereignty and a weakening of the nation-state system, producing hostile reactions in home countries.

The challenge for policy makers, Vernon argues, is to bridge the quite different regimes of the multinational enterprise and the nation-state. Both have a major role to play, and yet must make basic changes in their practices and policies to accommodate each other.

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The troubled prospects of multinational enterprises.......2000-04-04

The book's subtitle reveals the author's position. Thirty years ago, Raymond Vernon was one of the first economists to document the increasing importance of globalization and of the multinational corporations that benefited most directly from the trend. In this, his last book before his recent death, he revisits the subject, and finds cause for growing concern about the future of the multinationals, despite the fact that they have grown tremendously in terms of size and power.

Once their expansion was viewed with suspicion and hostility by many of their new host countries, but now multinationals are actively wooed throughout most of the world for their job-creating investments in local economies. However, within their own home countries (predominantly the advanced economies of the U.S., Europe, and Japan), the multinationals are increasingly a source of political tension. There is a fundamental conflict between the desire of the state to maximize the well-being of its own people and the desire of a multinational to optimize its global system regardless of the impact that might have within any individual country, including its own home country. The combination of global competition and aging populations has increased the demand for government sponsored social support in the most advanced economies, even as the same pressures encourage multinationals to move investments and jobs out of their high-cost home countries. Although globalization is not likely to be reversed, the multinationals may increasingly find themselves used as convenient scapegoats for the problems caused by this massive restructuring of the global economy. The recent WTO riots in Seattle may only be the beginning.

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This volume addresses many of the complex issues raised by North American integration through the lens of one of the largest and most global industries in the region: textiles and apparel. In part, this is a story of winners and losers in the globalization process, especially if one focuses on jobs lost and jobs gained in different countries and communities within North America, defined here as: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. However, it would be a mistake to view the industry solely in these zerosum terms. The North American apparel industry is an excellent illustration of larger trends in the global economy, in which regional divisions of labor appear to be one of the most stable and effective responses to globalization.

The contributors to this volume are an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who have all done detailed fieldwork at the firm and factory levels in one or more countries of North America. Taken together the essays offer theoretical and methodological innovations built around the intersection of the global commodity chains and industrial districts literatures, as well as innovative approaches to studying the impact of cross-national, interfirm networks in terms of production and trade issues, and local development outcomes for workers and communities.

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