1 Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Petty Production: The Enduring Alternative 23
6. Movers and Fixers: Historical Forms of Exploitation and the Marketing of a Regional Economy in Spain 45
7. Flexibility for Whom?: Small-Scale Garment Manufacturing in Rural Mexico 67
8. Capitalism from Below?: Small Firms, Petty Capitalists, and Regional Transformations in Eastern Europe 83
9. Global Market and Local Concerns: Petty Capitalists in the Brianza 99
10. They Were Promised a Rosegarden: Reunification and Globalization in Small- and Medium-size Firms in Eastern Germany 121
11. New Firm Formation and Technical Upgrading in the Taiwanese Semiconductor Industry: Is Petty Commodity Production Still Relevant to High-Technology Development? 145
12. Toward a (Proper) Postwar History of Southeast Asian Petty Capitalism: Predation, the State, and Chinese Small Business Capital in Malaysia 167
13. Labor Standard Regulation and the Modernization of Small-Scale Carpet Production in Kathmandu Nepal 201
14. Fair(er) Trade for Global Markets: Capitalizing on Work Alternatives in Crafts in the Rural Philippines 227
15. The Moral Significance of Petty Capitalism 253
16. Bibliography 271
17. Contributors 307
18. Index 311