Table of Contents
Series Editors’ Preface vii
List of Figures viii
List of Tables xi
Preface and Acknowledgements xii
Abbreviations xxi
Part One Articulating Capital in Global Production Networks 1
1 Articulations of Capital 3
2 Economic Geography, Conjuncture and the Dynamics of Capital 23
Part Two Working off the Past: Context and Complexity in Apparel Global Production Networks 53
3 Working in the Post‐Socialist Apparel Economy 55
4 Managing Europe’s Golden Bands: Trade Policy and the Regulation of Production Networks (with Robert Begg) 86
5 Transformations, Legacies and Networks: The State and Market Globalizations (with Robert Begg and Milan Bucě k) 104
Part Three Industrial Dynamics, Regionalization and the Conjunctural Economy of Global Production Networks 135
6 Theorizing Transition and the Dynamics of Capital: The Diverse Trajectories of Post‐socialist Firms (withRobert Begg, Milan Buček, Poli Roukova, and Rudolf Pastor) 137
7 Border Reconfigurations and the Frontiers of Capital (with Robert Begg, Milan Buček, and Rudolf Pastor) 162
8 Regionalization and the Palimpsests of Production: Delocalization, Legacies and Firm Differentiation (with Robert Begg and Poli Roukova) 182
9 The Cultural Economies of Post‐Socialism: Ethnicity, Garage Firms and Regional Markets (with Robert Begg and Poli Roukova) 214
Part Four Conclusion 237
10 Conclusion 239
Appendix 1 Firm-level Restructuring in the Slovak Textiles and Clothing Sector, 2004–2013 253
Appendix 2 Key to Figure 9.14 Dimitrovgrad Market, 2011 257
References 260
Index 281