Industrial Crisis and the Open Economy: Politics, Global Trade and the Textile Industry in the Advanced Economies

by Geoffrey R.D. Underhill

Book Overview

Written in the context of contemporary theoretical debate in international political economy, this book overturns a number of myths about the political economy of trade in one of the oldest areas of industry. In this way the author systematically links the changing characteristics of the trade regime to structural change and adjustment in global industry. He argues that state policy processes, international regimes and the industrial adjustment strategies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349269050
• ISBN13: 9781349269051
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"