Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania

Jeb Sprague is in the Department of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara and is a founding member of the Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism. View his academic website at: https://sites.google.com/site/jebsprague/.

Introduction 1. Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation in Asia and Oceania Transnational Capitalist Class 2. Statism and the Transnational Capitalist Class in China 3. Japanese Transnational Capitalists and Asia-Pacific Free Trade 4. The Rise of China and India and the Formation of a Transnational Capitalist Class in the Asia/Oceania Region 5. Lean Production as a Tool of Global Capitalism in Asia: The Transnational Capitalist Class in Action Labor and the Global Economy 6. Global Capitalism and the Transformation of China’s Working Class 7. Transnational Class Formation: A View from Below 8. National Champions in a Global Arena: Rhetoric and Inequality in Global Capitalism Finance and Production Capital 9. Offshore Tax Havens: The Borderlands of Global Capitalism 10. Conflicts within Transnational Finance Capital and the Motivations of Climate-Interested Investors 11. From Client State to Rentier State?: New Compradors, Transnational Capital and the Internationalization of Globalizing Dynamics in Australia, 1990-2013 Transnational Dynamics and (Under-)development 12. Uneven Geographies of Transnational Capitalism in Laos 13. From Missionary to New Middle Class Schooling in the Era of Global Capitalism: Dilemmas of inclusive education reform in India 14. From Transnational Trends to Local Practices: Monitoring Social Impact in a Papua New Guinea Mining Community Transnationally Oriented Elites and the State Apparatus 15. Global Capitalism, the BRICS, and the Transnational State 16. State, Capital, and Class Struggle in Australia: Reflections on the Global Capitalism Perspective 17. The Regionalization of Capital in the Patchwork Economy and the Transnationalization of the Subnational State Conclusion 18. Global Capitalism and its Discontents: Toward a Political Economy of the Possible.