Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations

Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe.

• Proposes a new theorization of global value chains as part of a conjunctural economic geography
• Develops a set of conceptual and theoretical arguments concerning the regional embeddedness of global production
• Draws on longitudinal empirical research from over 20 years in the Bulgarian and Slovakian apparel industries
• Makes a major intervention into the debate over the economic geographies of European integration and EU enlargement

Keywords: Global value chains, global production networks, post-socialism, trade, employment, work, regional development, Eastern and Central Europe, economic geography, economic sociology, economic anthropology, human geography, regulation, apparel industry, development studies, European economies, European Union, ethnicity, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Global value chains, global production networks, post-socialism, trade, employment, work, regional development, Eastern and Central Europe, economic geography, economic sociology, economic anthropology, human geography, regulation, apparel industry, development studies, European economies, European Union, ethnicity, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Human Geography