The new imperialism : crisis and contradictions in North-South relations

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Title:

Author:

Biel, Robert, 1945-

ISBN:

9781856497473

9781856497466

Personal Author:

Biel, Robert, 1945-

Publication Information:

London : Zed, 2000.

Physical Description:

xi, 355 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Capitalist Development in Historical Context -- Imperialism and the Issue of Large-Scale Changes in Capitalism -- The Post-Second World War Era -- Development: Theory versus Practice -- The Socialist Challenge to Development -- The Third World Challenge -- Realities Overlooked - Women's Labour and Nature -- New Technologies and New Management Systems to the Rescue? -- The Role of the Capitalist Centre within the Current Phase of the International Political Economy -- From Periphery to Centre? The Newly Industrialising Country (NIC) Strategy -- Permanent Subordination? Structural Adjustment as Control -- Political Implications of a New Economic Order -- Globalisation versus Regionalism -- Future Challenge: Grassroots Movements and the Prospects for a New Social Order.

Subject Term:

Capitalism.

Competition, International.

Geographic Term:

Developing countries -- Dependency on foreign countries.

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Summary

This major intellectual exploration seeks to deepen our understanding of the way in which modern capitalism works. The author argues, in particular, that it has always rested in part on the unremunerated labour of women, the non-sustainable extraction of natural resources and the racist exploitation of the non-European periphery.

Robert Biel explains and illuminates how it has integrated the South into a Western-dominated system of exploitation and prevented it from making the promised transition from marginality on the periphery to prosperity at the centre. And the racist implications of this.

He also explores two fundamental questions. Are there really any indications that the global economy is slowly entering a long-term structural crisis? And would any significant disruption open up opportunities for new popular movements to fundamentally challenge it?

Robert Biel's work constitutes a major revitalisation of the tools of Marxism and Dependency Theory. In addition to scholars of political economy and development, it will interest activists seeking to reconstitute left politics in the age of globalisation.