Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania [Hardcover]

News headlines warn of rivalries and competing nations across Asia and the Pacific, even as powerful new cross-border relations form as never before. This book looks behind the Asia-Pacific curtain: at the new forms of social, economic, and political integration taking place through a global capitalism that is rife with contradictions, inequality, and crisis. We are moved beyond traditional conceptualizations of the inter-state system with its nation-state competition as the core organizing principle of world capitalism and the principal institutional framework that shapes the makeup of global social forces.

These important studies examine and debate over how there is a growing transnationality of material (economic) relations in the global era, as well as an emerging transnationality of many social and class relations. How does transnational capitalist class fractions, new middle strata, and labor undergird globalization in Asia and Oceania? How have states and institutions become entwined with such processes? This book provides insight into a field of dynamic change.

Introduction 1. Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation in Asia and Oceania, Jeb Sprague  Transnational Capitalist Class2. Statism and the Transnational Capitalist Class in China, Jerry Harris 3. Japanese Transnational Capitalists and Asia-Pacific Free Trade, Hisanao Takase 4. The Rise of China and India and the Formation of a Transnational Capitalist Class in the Asia/Oceania Region, Jenny Chesters 5. Lean Production as a Tool of Global Capitalism in Asia: The Transnational Capitalist Class in Action, Robert Jones, Samir Shrivastava, Christopher Selvarajah, and Bernadine Van Gramberg  Labor and the Global Economy6. Global Capitalism and the Transformation of Chinas Working Class, Kevin Lin 7. Transnational Class Formation: AlS!