Abstract
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 â 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.
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