Poverty and the Production of World Politics: Unprotected Workers in the Global Political Economy

by Magnus Ryner

Global poverty is a central concern for world politics, yet we lack and adequate conception of the ways the "global poor" affect contemporary world order. This book examines the proposition, inspired by the work of Robert W. Cox and Jeffrey Harrod, that such a conception must be based on an analysis of how the "global poor" take part in power relations as unprotected workers. It examines the ways in which production and power relations constitute...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403996970
• ISBN13: 9781403996978
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 8.5"