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| Work
and Well-Being In The Age of Finance |
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| Edited
by: Jayati Ghosh and C.P. Chandrasekhar |
Published
by: Tulika Books, New Delhi |
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The last two decades
have been characterized by remarkable changes
in the structures and policy regimes governing
accumulation in the world system. The qualitatively
different global conjecture that has resulted
from these changes is loosely captured by the
term 'globalization', which is used to characterize
the process that have unfolded during these years.
While these processes were driven in the first
instance by developments that occurred in the
metropolitan centres of the world capitalism,
they have affected the rest of the world as well.
They have changed the distribution of resources,
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assets and incomes
between and within individual countries, as well
as triggered institutional changes that are altering
the nature of capitalism in developed and developing
countries. They have also changed, quite significantly
in some cases, the conditions of work and the
associated conditions of life for people across
the world.
The last two decades have been characterized by
remarkable changes in the structures and policy
regimes governing accumulation in the world system.
The qualitatively different global conjecture
that has resulted from these changes is loosely
captured by the term 'globalization', which is
used to characterize the process that have unfolded
during these years. While these processes were
driven in the first instance by developments that
occurred in the metropolitan centres of the world
capitalism, they have affected the rest of the
world as well. They have changed the distribution
of resources, assets and incomes between and within
individual countries, as well as triggered institutional
changes that are altering the nature of capitalism
in developed and developing countries. They have
also changed, quite significantly in some cases,
the conditions of work and the associated conditions
of life for people across the world.
Assessing and analyzing the precise nature of
these changes was the dominant concern at a conference
on 'Globalization, Structural Change and Income
Distribution', convened at Muttukadu, Tamil Nadu,
India, in December 2000. The conference was aimed
at furthering the understanding of the institutional
features that define the current conjecture in
world capitalism., of the mechanisms of expansion
and accumulation that those features entail and
their implications for growth and distribution
in different regions of the world. The papers
collected in this volume were first presented
at this conference. |
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| January 21, 2003. |
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