Leslie Sklair

Biographic Data

ID3624796
NAMELeslie Sklair
GIVEN NAMESLeslie
FAMILY NAMESklair
SIGNATURESKLAIR L
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • The Anthropocene in Global Media

    Leslie SklairBOOKAnthropocene in Global Media2020

  • The Transnational Capitalist Class, Social Movements, and Alternatives to Capitalist Globalization

    Leslie SklairARTICLEInternational Critical Thought2016Cited by: 10References: 11

    This paper attempts to rethink and globalize the concept of the capitalist class, to suggest ways in which this class uses social movements, and to explore what might come after capitalist globalization and the hegemony of the transnational capitalist class (TCC). The first section of the paper provides evidence that there is now a flourishing community of scholars largely but not exclusively connected with the Network for Critical Studies of Glo…

  • Report on Prague conference on global capitalism

    Leslie Sklair, Jill TimmsARTICLEInternational Critical Thought2012

  • Iconic architecture in globalizing cities

    Leslie SklairARTICLEInternational Critical Thought2012Cited by: 2References: 3

    This paper attempts to construct a theory connecting capitalist globalization and iconic architecture. Iconic architecture is defined as buildings and spaces that are famous for professional architects and/or the public at large and have special symbolic/aesthetic significance attached to them. The drivers of capitalist globalization are conceptualized as the transnational capitalist class, organized analytically in four (sometimes overlapping) f…

  • The Sociology of Progress

    Leslie SklairBOOKThe Sociology of Progress:…2003

  • Capitalism and Development

    Leslie SklairBOOKCapitalism and Development2002

    Histories and theories of capitalist development development - lodestar or illusion, Henry Berntein democracy and development - deconstruction and debate, Mahmoud Dhaouadi Agrarian classes in capitalist development, Rhys Jenkins capitalist development in the NICS, Kyong-Dong Kim Confucianism and capitalist development in East Asia, Maria Mies gender and global capitalism, Ronaldo Munck development and the environment - managing the contradictions…

  • The Transnational Capitalist Class

    Leslie SklairBOOKThe Transnational Capitalist Class2000Cited by: 1

  • Globalization

    Steve Taylor, Leslie SklairBOOKSociology1999References: 1

    Globalization refers to the growing interdependence of different parts of the world. Globalization theories involve looking beyond nation states and the relations between them to social processes which result from social interaction on a world scale, such as the development of an increasingly Integrated global economy and the explosion of worldwide telecommunications. The aim of this chapter is to explain some of the different ways in which socio…

  • Sociology of the global system

    Leslie SklairBOOKSociology of the global system1991

  • Macmillan Student Encyclopedia of Sociology

    Open AccessM Macmillan, Gard Ltd et al.BOOKMacmillan Student Encyclopedia of…1983Cited by: 10

    The Macmillan Student Encyclopedia of Sociology is a major comprehensive encyclopedia aimed at all students of social science. The book explains all the important sociological terms, theories, concept