Everyday politics of the world economy / edited by John M. Hobson and Leonard Seabrooke.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-242) and index.

Everyday IPE: revealing everyday forms of change in the world economy / John M. Hobson, Leonard Seabrooke -- The agency of labour in global change: remaining the spaces and scales of trade union praxis within a global economy / Andrew Herod -- The agency of peripheral actors: small state tax havens and international regimes as weapons of the weak / J.C. Sharman -- Southern sites of female agency: informal regimes and female migrant labour resistance in East and Southeast Asia / Michele Ford, Nicola Piper -- The everyday social sources of imperial and hegemonic financial orders / Leonard Seabrooke -- Everyday investor subjects and global financial change: the rise of Anglo-American mass investment / Paul Langley -- Peasants as subaltern agents in Latin America: neoliberalism, resistance and the power of the powerless / Adam David Morton -- Eastern agents of globalisation: oriental globalization in the rise of Western capitalism / John M. Hobson -- Diasporic agents and trans-Asian flows in the making of Asian modernity: the case of Thailand / Ara Wilson -- The agency of subordinate politics: Western hegemony in the East Asian mirror / Shogo Suzuki -- Conclusion: Everyday IPE puzzle sets, teaching and policy agendas / John M. Hobson, Leonard Seabrooke.

How do our everyday actions shape and transform the world economy? This volume of original essays argues that current scholarship in international political economy (IPE) is too highly focused on powerful states and large international institutions. The contributors examine specific forms of 'everyday' actions to demonstrate how small-scale actors and their decisions can shape the global economy. They analyse a range of seemingly ordinary or subordinate actors, including peasants, working classes and trade unions, lower-middle and middle classes, female migrant labourers and Eastern diasporas, and examine how they have agency in transforming their political and economic environments. This book offers a novel way of thinking about everyday forms of change across a range of topical issues including globalisation, international finance, trade, taxation, consumerism, labour rights and regimes. It will appeal to students and scholars of politics, international relations, political economy and sociology. -- PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION.

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