Paul S Ciccantell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 126465 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul S Ciccantell |
| NOMBRES | Paul S |
| APELLIDO | Ciccantell |
| FIRMA | CICCANTELL P S |
| AFILIACIONES | Western Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1145-6439 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
From Africa to Amazon.com
What can world-systems analysis of the role of Africa in the creation of the capitalist world-economy tell us about Amazon’s model of control of global supply chains in the 21st century? How did patterns established by European imperialism and enslavement of Africans create long-lasting continuities of racial capitalism and migration that are used by Amazon to profit in the contemporary era? We argue that the analyses of imperialism and racialize…
The Political Economy of Trade, Work, and Economy
What forces will shape the global future? We begin with discussion of the central roles of globalization and the ecologically destructive Anthropocene and then move onto more current popular and political debates about questions of unchallengeable globalization versus de-globalization and re-globalization. We side with the former. The broad story is how historical global capitalism, with different leading core states or hegemons, inexorably pushe…
Labor organizing at chokepoints along Amazon's supply chain
Amazon seems to be creating a new hybrid model of capitalism combining some elements of classical Fordist vertical integration, or even the over hundred-year-old "Taylorism" of scientific management, with 21st century elements of labor "flexibility" and reliance on gig labor and subcontracting. This hybrid model offers opportunities for organized labor to gain a foothold within some of Amazon's vertically integrated nodes as the firm lengthens it…
Trade Wars and Disrupted Global Commodity Chains
The literatures on global commodity chains and global value chains rest on an unquestioned assumption: the continual expansion of globalization. The Trump Administration's trade wars challenged this foundational assumption and even today the new Biden regime also hints at the shift away from global supply chains. We find that the prior administration’s efforts caused continued disruption of long-established commodity chains in steel, aluminum, au…
Coal's Persistence in the Capitalist World-Economy
Predominant analyses of energy offer insufficient theoretical and political-economic insight into the persistence of coal and other fossil fuels. The dominant narrative of coal powering the Industrial Revolution, and Great Britain's world dominance in the nineteenth century giving way to a U.S.- and oil-dominated twentieth century, is marred by teleological assumptions. The key assumption that a complete energy “transition” will occur leads some …
Liquefied Natural Gas
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry began as a means of making use of natural gas resources in socially remote regions and of natural gas associated with oil production. Natural gas was transformed from a waste product into LNG that could be moved thousands of miles to market, redefining "waste" as a valuable raw material. As the newest large-scale LNG exporter, the United States entered the LNG industry based on another redefinition of natu…
Are Transport and Raw Materials Nodes in Global Commodity Chains Potential Places for Worker/Movement Organization
Historically, workers exerted power by interrupting long distance flows of commodities at the extraction, processing, and transport stages. Labor, often organized through traditional unions, seized this vulnerability in disparate industries to gain higher wages and better working conditions and to achieve political goals in national and international arenas. However, is this still a viable strategy in a very different era? In this context, what a…
Comparing Critical Capitalist Commodity Chains in the Early Twenty-first Century
There have been a number of critical historical opportunities for labor to exert power by interrupting long distance flows of commodities at the extraction, processing, and transport stages. This vulnerability has been used by workers in these industries to gain higher wages and better working conditions and to achieve political goals in national and international arenas. In this paper, we compare two commodity chains that are critical components…
The Steel and Shipbuilding Industries of South Korea
In this paper, we focus on the roles of the steel and shipbuilding industries as generative sectors in Korea s rapid economic ascent. We argue that a world-systems analysis focusing on these generative sectors provides a more complete understanding of Korea s rapid economic ascent than do other theoretical models. We outline the similarities between this case and those analyzed by Bunker and Ciccantell (2005, 2007) both in terms of the central ro…
Rethinking Global Commodity Chains
The global commodity chains (GCCs) approach is an insightful way to understand issues of `development' and production and consumption differentials across space. It potentially offers insight into the issue of `ecologically unequal exchange'. However, we propose three revisions to conventional GCC analysis. First, many of the GCC studies tend to focus on only part of the commodity chain — and we need, in effect, to `lengthen' the chains. Stephen …
States and Development
Evans, Peter B., Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and The da Skocpol, eds. 1985. Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Johnson, Chalmers. 1982. MITI and the Japanese Miracle. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Kim, Eun Mee. 1997. Big Business Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Devel opment, 1960-1990. Albany: State University of New York Press. Wade, Robert. 1990. Governing the Market: Eco nomic Theory and t…
Nature, raw materials, and political economy
Globalization and the Race for Resources
Globalização e desenvolvimento baseado em matérias-primas
From the notion that globalization is a long process, which shows distinct characteristics, in different industries and in different periods, the article examines the mutable nature of the globalization process in the aluminum industry. This article confirms the aluminum industry as one of the most truly global industries and analyses its trajectory, since the creation of the oligopoly structure, in the first years of this industry, until the cha…
The Economic Ascent of China and the Potential for Restructuring the Capitalist World-Economy
The economic ascent of China in the past two decades is the most dramatic change in the capitalist world-economy of this period. Analyses focus on changes in government control of the economy, the availability of low cost workers for export production, the historical characteristics of Chinese economy and society, and the role of the Chinese government as a developmental state. All highlight key parts of China s economic ascent, but none addresse…
Generative sectors and the new historical materialism
International Inequality in the Age of Globalization
This paper shows how Japanese ?rms and the Japanese state constructed a development model based on the steel industry as a generative sector that drove Japan s economic ascent in the world-historical context of U.S. hegemony. We make three arguments in this paper. First, there is a new model of capital accumulation that does create new forms of social inequality by redistributing costs and bene?ts in very di?erent ways than earlier models. Second…
Nafta and the Reconstruction of U.S. Hegemony
This paper argues that conflicting assessments of the of free trade in North America are incomplete because they do not analyse these effects in light of the key long term U.S. goal: the reconstruction of U.S. hegemony that was under siege by Japan and Europe. The declining competitiveness of U.S. raw materials supply systems badly damaged U.S. hegemony during the 1970s and l980s. The original U.S. strategy was to create a continental energy mark…
Space and Transport in the World-System
Introduction: Space, Transport, and World-Systems Theory by Paul S. Ciccantell and Stephen G. Bunker Ocean Transport Transportation Space: A Fourth Spatial Category for the World-Systems Perspective? by Philip E. Steinberg Power and the Shaping of Markets: The Global Order, Imperialism, and Shipping Nationalism by Baldev Raj Nayar It's All About Market Share: Competition Among U.S. West Coast Ports for Trans-Pacific Containerized Cargo by John Gu…
It's All About Power
What happens to rural communities in remote raw materials-rich regions when their definitions of the region's natural resources are confronted with competing and incompatible definitions presented and enforced by external actors? The social constructionist approach in environmental sociology provides an essential counterbalance to environmental determinism, but this article argues that in many contexts social construction is actually a process of…
Restructuring Markets, Reorganizing Nature
Theorists of hegemony combine a concern with the causes of war and peace with questions of dominant trade regimes. While this combination addresses issues of central importance for studies of international relations, it may somewhat confound the role of hegemony studies within a world systems perspective. The power of the world systems perspective lies in the consideration of entire worlds, not simply as the appropriate unit of analysis, but as i…
Contested Frontiers in Amazonia
Based on 15 years of research in Brazil, this book is an interdisciplinary documentation and analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern region of the state of Para. The authors' analysis was based on the idea that what they documented in the field - deforestation, settlement patterns, and the intensity of rural violence, for example - were the outcomes of the competition for resources among soci…
Rethinking Global Commodity Chains
The global commodity chains (GCCs) approach is an insightful way to understand issues of `development' and production and consumption differentials across space. It potentially offers insight into the issue of `ecologically unequal exchange'. However, we propose three revisions to conventional GCC analysis. First, many of the GCC studies tend to focus on only part of the commodity chain — and we need, in effect, to `lengthen' the chains. Stephen …
Nafta and the Reconstruction of U.S. Hegemony
This paper argues that conflicting assessments of the of free trade in North America are incomplete because they do not analyse these effects in light of the key long term U.S. goal: the reconstruction of U.S. hegemony that was under siege by Japan and Europe. The declining competitiveness of U.S. raw materials supply systems badly damaged U.S. hegemony during the 1970s and l980s. The original U.S. strategy was to create a continental energy mark…
The Economic Ascent of China and the Potential for Restructuring the Capitalist World-Economy
The economic ascent of China in the past two decades is the most dramatic change in the capitalist world-economy of this period. Analyses focus on changes in government control of the economy, the availability of low cost workers for export production, the historical characteristics of Chinese economy and society, and the role of the Chinese government as a developmental state. All highlight key parts of China s economic ascent, but none addresse…
Comparing Critical Capitalist Commodity Chains in the Early Twenty-first Century
There have been a number of critical historical opportunities for labor to exert power by interrupting long distance flows of commodities at the extraction, processing, and transport stages. This vulnerability has been used by workers in these industries to gain higher wages and better working conditions and to achieve political goals in national and international arenas. In this paper, we compare two commodity chains that are critical components…
The Steel and Shipbuilding Industries of South Korea
In this paper, we focus on the roles of the steel and shipbuilding industries as generative sectors in Korea s rapid economic ascent. We argue that a world-systems analysis focusing on these generative sectors provides a more complete understanding of Korea s rapid economic ascent than do other theoretical models. We outline the similarities between this case and those analyzed by Bunker and Ciccantell (2005, 2007) both in terms of the central ro…
Generative sectors and the new historical materialism
International Inequality in the Age of Globalization
This paper shows how Japanese ?rms and the Japanese state constructed a development model based on the steel industry as a generative sector that drove Japan s economic ascent in the world-historical context of U.S. hegemony. We make three arguments in this paper. First, there is a new model of capital accumulation that does create new forms of social inequality by redistributing costs and bene?ts in very di?erent ways than earlier models. Second…
Trade Wars and Disrupted Global Commodity Chains
The literatures on global commodity chains and global value chains rest on an unquestioned assumption: the continual expansion of globalization. The Trump Administration's trade wars challenged this foundational assumption and even today the new Biden regime also hints at the shift away from global supply chains. We find that the prior administration’s efforts caused continued disruption of long-established commodity chains in steel, aluminum, au…
Liquefied Natural Gas
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry began as a means of making use of natural gas resources in socially remote regions and of natural gas associated with oil production. Natural gas was transformed from a waste product into LNG that could be moved thousands of miles to market, redefining "waste" as a valuable raw material. As the newest large-scale LNG exporter, the United States entered the LNG industry based on another redefinition of natu…
Labor organizing at chokepoints along Amazon's supply chain
Amazon seems to be creating a new hybrid model of capitalism combining some elements of classical Fordist vertical integration, or even the over hundred-year-old "Taylorism" of scientific management, with 21st century elements of labor "flexibility" and reliance on gig labor and subcontracting. This hybrid model offers opportunities for organized labor to gain a foothold within some of Amazon's vertically integrated nodes as the firm lengthens it…
Are Transport and Raw Materials Nodes in Global Commodity Chains Potential Places for Worker/Movement Organization
Historically, workers exerted power by interrupting long distance flows of commodities at the extraction, processing, and transport stages. Labor, often organized through traditional unions, seized this vulnerability in disparate industries to gain higher wages and better working conditions and to achieve political goals in national and international arenas. However, is this still a viable strategy in a very different era? In this context, what a…
From Africa to Amazon.com
What can world-systems analysis of the role of Africa in the creation of the capitalist world-economy tell us about Amazon’s model of control of global supply chains in the 21st century? How did patterns established by European imperialism and enslavement of Africans create long-lasting continuities of racial capitalism and migration that are used by Amazon to profit in the contemporary era? We argue that the analyses of imperialism and racialize…
It's All About Power
What happens to rural communities in remote raw materials-rich regions when their definitions of the region's natural resources are confronted with competing and incompatible definitions presented and enforced by external actors? The social constructionist approach in environmental sociology provides an essential counterbalance to environmental determinism, but this article argues that in many contexts social construction is actually a process of…
Restructuring Markets, Reorganizing Nature
Theorists of hegemony combine a concern with the causes of war and peace with questions of dominant trade regimes. While this combination addresses issues of central importance for studies of international relations, it may somewhat confound the role of hegemony studies within a world systems perspective. The power of the world systems perspective lies in the consideration of entire worlds, not simply as the appropriate unit of analysis, but as i…
Contested Frontiers in Amazonia
Based on 15 years of research in Brazil, this book is an interdisciplinary documentation and analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern region of the state of Para. The authors' analysis was based on the idea that what they documented in the field - deforestation, settlement patterns, and the intensity of rural violence, for example - were the outcomes of the competition for resources among soci…
Restructuring Markets, Reorganizing Nature
Theorists of hegemony combine a concern with the causes of war and peace with questions of dominant trade regimes. While this combination addresses issues of central importance for studies of international relations, it may somewhat confound the role of hegemony studies within a world systems perspective. The power of the world systems perspective lies in the consideration of entire worlds, not simply as the appropriate unit of analysis, but as i…
It's All About Power
What happens to rural communities in remote raw materials-rich regions when their definitions of the region's natural resources are confronted with competing and incompatible definitions presented and enforced by external actors? The social constructionist approach in environmental sociology provides an essential counterbalance to environmental determinism, but this article argues that in many contexts social construction is actually a process of…
Space and Transport in the World-System
Introduction: Space, Transport, and World-Systems Theory by Paul S. Ciccantell and Stephen G. Bunker Ocean Transport Transportation Space: A Fourth Spatial Category for the World-Systems Perspective? by Philip E. Steinberg Power and the Shaping of Markets: The Global Order, Imperialism, and Shipping Nationalism by Baldev Raj Nayar It's All About Market Share: Competition Among U.S. West Coast Ports for Trans-Pacific Containerized Cargo by John Gu…
Nafta and the Reconstruction of U.S. Hegemony
This paper argues that conflicting assessments of the of free trade in North America are incomplete because they do not analyse these effects in light of the key long term U.S. goal: the reconstruction of U.S. hegemony that was under siege by Japan and Europe. The declining competitiveness of U.S. raw materials supply systems badly damaged U.S. hegemony during the 1970s and l980s. The original U.S. strategy was to create a continental energy mark…
International Inequality in the Age of Globalization
This paper shows how Japanese ?rms and the Japanese state constructed a development model based on the steel industry as a generative sector that drove Japan s economic ascent in the world-historical context of U.S. hegemony. We make three arguments in this paper. First, there is a new model of capital accumulation that does create new forms of social inequality by redistributing costs and bene?ts in very di?erent ways than earlier models. Second…
Generative sectors and the new historical materialism
The Economic Ascent of China and the Potential for Restructuring the Capitalist World-Economy
The economic ascent of China in the past two decades is the most dramatic change in the capitalist world-economy of this period. Analyses focus on changes in government control of the economy, the availability of low cost workers for export production, the historical characteristics of Chinese economy and society, and the role of the Chinese government as a developmental state. All highlight key parts of China s economic ascent, but none addresse…
Globalization and the Race for Resources
Globalização e desenvolvimento baseado em matérias-primas
From the notion that globalization is a long process, which shows distinct characteristics, in different industries and in different periods, the article examines the mutable nature of the globalization process in the aluminum industry. This article confirms the aluminum industry as one of the most truly global industries and analyses its trajectory, since the creation of the oligopoly structure, in the first years of this industry, until the cha…
Nature, raw materials, and political economy
States and Development
Evans, Peter B., Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and The da Skocpol, eds. 1985. Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Johnson, Chalmers. 1982. MITI and the Japanese Miracle. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Kim, Eun Mee. 1997. Big Business Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Devel opment, 1960-1990. Albany: State University of New York Press. Wade, Robert. 1990. Governing the Market: Eco nomic Theory and t…
The Steel and Shipbuilding Industries of South Korea
In this paper, we focus on the roles of the steel and shipbuilding industries as generative sectors in Korea s rapid economic ascent. We argue that a world-systems analysis focusing on these generative sectors provides a more complete understanding of Korea s rapid economic ascent than do other theoretical models. We outline the similarities between this case and those analyzed by Bunker and Ciccantell (2005, 2007) both in terms of the central ro…
Rethinking Global Commodity Chains
The global commodity chains (GCCs) approach is an insightful way to understand issues of `development' and production and consumption differentials across space. It potentially offers insight into the issue of `ecologically unequal exchange'. However, we propose three revisions to conventional GCC analysis. First, many of the GCC studies tend to focus on only part of the commodity chain — and we need, in effect, to `lengthen' the chains. Stephen …
Comparing Critical Capitalist Commodity Chains in the Early Twenty-first Century
There have been a number of critical historical opportunities for labor to exert power by interrupting long distance flows of commodities at the extraction, processing, and transport stages. This vulnerability has been used by workers in these industries to gain higher wages and better working conditions and to achieve political goals in national and international arenas. In this paper, we compare two commodity chains that are critical components…
Are Transport and Raw Materials Nodes in Global Commodity Chains Potential Places for Worker/Movement Organization
Historically, workers exerted power by interrupting long distance flows of commodities at the extraction, processing, and transport stages. Labor, often organized through traditional unions, seized this vulnerability in disparate industries to gain higher wages and better working conditions and to achieve political goals in national and international arenas. However, is this still a viable strategy in a very different era? In this context, what a…
Coal's Persistence in the Capitalist World-Economy
Predominant analyses of energy offer insufficient theoretical and political-economic insight into the persistence of coal and other fossil fuels. The dominant narrative of coal powering the Industrial Revolution, and Great Britain's world dominance in the nineteenth century giving way to a U.S.- and oil-dominated twentieth century, is marred by teleological assumptions. The key assumption that a complete energy “transition” will occur leads some …
Liquefied Natural Gas
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry began as a means of making use of natural gas resources in socially remote regions and of natural gas associated with oil production. Natural gas was transformed from a waste product into LNG that could be moved thousands of miles to market, redefining "waste" as a valuable raw material. As the newest large-scale LNG exporter, the United States entered the LNG industry based on another redefinition of natu…
Trade Wars and Disrupted Global Commodity Chains
The literatures on global commodity chains and global value chains rest on an unquestioned assumption: the continual expansion of globalization. The Trump Administration's trade wars challenged this foundational assumption and even today the new Biden regime also hints at the shift away from global supply chains. We find that the prior administration’s efforts caused continued disruption of long-established commodity chains in steel, aluminum, au…
The Political Economy of Trade, Work, and Economy
What forces will shape the global future? We begin with discussion of the central roles of globalization and the ecologically destructive Anthropocene and then move onto more current popular and political debates about questions of unchallengeable globalization versus de-globalization and re-globalization. We side with the former. The broad story is how historical global capitalism, with different leading core states or hegemons, inexorably pushe…
Labor organizing at chokepoints along Amazon's supply chain
Amazon seems to be creating a new hybrid model of capitalism combining some elements of classical Fordist vertical integration, or even the over hundred-year-old "Taylorism" of scientific management, with 21st century elements of labor "flexibility" and reliance on gig labor and subcontracting. This hybrid model offers opportunities for organized labor to gain a foothold within some of Amazon's vertically integrated nodes as the firm lengthens it…
From Africa to Amazon.com
What can world-systems analysis of the role of Africa in the creation of the capitalist world-economy tell us about Amazon’s model of control of global supply chains in the 21st century? How did patterns established by European imperialism and enslavement of Africans create long-lasting continuities of racial capitalism and migration that are used by Amazon to profit in the contemporary era? We argue that the analyses of imperialism and racialize…
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