Stefan Schmalz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 219554 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stefan Schmalz |
| PRENOMES | Stefan |
| SOBRENOME | Schmalz |
| ASSINATURA | SCHMALZ S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Erfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6403-1311 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Avoiding the China shock
The state-backed internationalization of Chinese companies has led to conflicts in the EU over potential market distortions and security concerns. The EU has responded to this challenge with increasing state intervention and defensive measures in trade and investment regulation, competition policy, and industrial policy. Drawing on comparative capitalisms research and Neo-Gramscian perspectives on European integration, we analyze how European eco…
Eine endlose Finanzkrise? Die kapitalistische Weltwirtschaft zwischen Transformation und Refiguration
Die Weltwirtschaft hat seit den 1990er-Jahren eine Reihe von Finanzkrisen durchlaufen, deren Häufigkeit und Intensität in der Nachkriegsgeschichte bisher unbekannt waren. Diese „endlose Krise“ wird meist mit der Finanzialisierung der Volkswirtschaften in Nordamerika, Europa und anderen OECD-Ländern in Verbindung gebracht. In dem Artikel wird der räumlichen Verfasstheit des globalen (Finanzmarkt‐)Kapitalismus eine entscheidende Rolle für die Entst…
The Grand Delusions of Globalization
This introductory essay will give a brief overview of the debate on globalization, including different periodizations (500-year perspective 250-year perspective and 50-year perspective) which shape diverging understandings of (de)globalization. Regarding the current conjuncture, we have diagnosed three areas that are causing cracks in the status quo of neoliberal globalization: geoeconomic competition between nation states; conflicts within socie…
Varieties of Digital Capitalism and the US-China Rivalry
The rise of China as a global high-tech nation is challenging US hegemony. While US tech companies like Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft have expanded globally and have integrated most world regions into US-led digital capitalism, China has developed its own variety of digital capitalism. Shielded by the 'Great Firewall', Chinese corporations such as Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent have emerged as innovative high-tech companies. Instead of relying on…
World-System of Vaccine Distribution
This article analyzes spatial hierarchies and geopolitical conflicts during the COVID-19 pandemic from a world-systems perspective. Drawing on data on global vaccine production and distribution, we argue that the trimodal structure of the capitalist world-system—core, semi-periphery, and periphery—has been reproduced through unequal access to vaccines, constituting hierarchically structured “vaccine worlds”. These vaccine worlds are geopoliticall…
An emerging ‘China-threat-corporatism’? CRRC’s acquisition of a German locomotive company and its impact on labour relations
The China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) is presently the largest player in the global rolling stock industry and has increasingly expanded to mature markets. In 2019, CRRC acquired a German locomotive company, establishing a manufacturing foothold in the EU. This paper presents the findings of extensive field research on the impact of CRRC’s investment on industrial relations. Drawing on comparative capitalisms research and recent deba…
Varieties of platform unionism
Nearly three decades ago, Manuel Castells declared the atomising effects of the new technologies of the ‘information age’ to presage the ‘end of labour’. There is little doubt that the labour movement worldwide is no longer the social force it was in the twentieth century. Much of the debate on the future of work and consequences for worker organisation, moreover, has focused on defensive struggles against the introduction of new technologies in …
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry
How did geo-economic and technological competition between the United States and China arise? And what is the Chinese perspective on the US-China rivalry? In this forum article, we analyze the conflict from a critical political economy perspective. We argue that the US has mobilized its structural power as the leading high-tech country in global value chains to curtail China’s ascent. By elucidating Chinese responses to American structural power,…
Das Weltsystem der Impfstoffnutzung
Der Beitrag analysiert räumliche Hierarchien und geopolitische Konfliktdynamiken bei der Bekämpfung der COVID-19-Pandemie aus der Perspektive des Weltsystemansatzes. Datensätze zeigen, dass sich das Modell aus Zentrum, Semiperipherie und Peripherie bei der Impfstoffverteilung und -produktion reproduziert. Die asymmetrische Verteilung von Ressourcen zur Bekämpfung der COVID-19-Krise übersetzt sich in hierarchisch strukturierte Impfstoffwelten, die…
Soziologie der Deglobalisierung
Flassbeck und Steinhardt 2018), einer "gefesselten Globalisierung" (Menzel 2021) oder eines "globalization backlash" (Crouch 2019) hat mittlerweile auch Einzug in der einschlgigen wissenschaftlichen Literatur gehalten. Die globalisierungskritische Konjunktur in den Sozialwissenschaften hat durch die COVID-19-Pandemie und die russische Invasion in der Ukraine einen weiteren Schub bekommen
Challenging the three faces of extractivism
The Mapuche movement is among the most important social movements in post-dictatorship Chile. Since the 1990s, the Mapuche struggle has increasingly turned into a violent conflict over land usage and environmental degradation. By referring to theories of global capitalism and political ecology, we show how forestry extractivism has shaped the Mapuche struggle. Based on extensive fieldwork in the region of La Araucanía, we analyze how different fo…
The whole world is becoming more like Russia.” A conversation on deglobalization in the wake of the war in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is having profound repercussions for the international system and the global economy. In this conversation, Boris Kagarlitsky, professor at the Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences and long-standing analyst of Russian society, politics, and the global political economy, discusses the implications of the war on the Russian economy, its financial sector, and the Russian elite. Furthermore, Kagarlitsky analy…
Umkämpfte Globalisierung
The rise of China has led to a series of conflicts with the leading Western countries. The reasons for these disputes are that Chinese corporations have become serious competitors for US and European companies and that there are diverging approaches of governing the market between Western and Chinese power elites. In China, political and economic power are organized differently than in the US and the EU. The party-state is the (partial) owner of …
Political discontent and labour in a post-growth region
The article traces the political economy and labour relations in East Thuringia, a 'post-growth region' in East Germany with a structurally weak periphery and a declining populace. We argue that the regional decline results from a process of peripheralization which has led to economic stagnation and a shrinking population, and also has fostered political discontent. By drawing on a regional survey, an intensive case study at a manufacturing site …
Two forms of transnational organizing
It has become a commonplace belief among academics and trade union officials that globalization has weakened trade unions. However, the expansion of global capital has also led to a rise of transnational labor organizing. Since the 2000s, Global Union Federations have developed different strategies to tackle the challenges of globalization. In this article, we analyze two such forms of transnational organizing: A network-based and an event-based …
Der Corona-Crash in China
Die Covid-19-Epidemie hat China in eine Wirtschaftskrise getrieben, mit weltweiten Auswirkungen auf Lieferketten und Märkte. Die relativ erfolgreiche Bekämpfung der Epidemie in China hat nun jedoch eine neue Dynamik hervorgerufen: Chinas Ökonomie könnte sich in der Situation als resilienter als die meisten westlichen Volkswirtschaften erweisen. Hierdurch wird auch die hegemoniale Auseinandersetzung mit den USA neu strukturiert
The Power Resources Approach
Prekarität in der chinesischen Hochwachstumsgesellschaft
Socializing Labour Protest
Over the course of the last decade, China has experienced growing labour unrest in many economic sectors including electronics, textiles and services. One reason for this is that the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is not engaged at the shop floor level; it does not represent workers and has failed to organize strikes. Instead, labour non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have stepped in to fill the representation gap and to support …
Between Power and Powerlessness
The article analyzes the recent wave of labor unrest in Western Europe after the 2008 financial and economic crisis. It draws theoretically on the global capitalism school and a labor power resource approach, and empirically on a database on social conflict (JenaConDa). Unlike the last cycle of contention between 1968 and 1973, the post-2008 conflicts have changed in two respects: First, the uneven and combined development of European integration…
The Yue Yuen Strike
In April 2014, approximately 40,000 workers stalled production at Yue Yuen (YY) Gaobu, a shoemaker, in Guangdong, China. We identify three reasons for the strike: First, China’s rise is leading to a wave of capital relocation to lower wage countries. Accordingly, YY Gaobu faces increasing pressure, which contributes to a deterioration of working conditions to save costs. Second, the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption campaign is creating n…
After Neoliberalism? Brazil, India, and China in the Global Economic Crisis
Against the backdrop of debates about ‘post-neoliberalism’, we examine the implications of the global economic crisis for three important semi-peripheral states: Brazil, India, and China. Deploying a framework which combines neo-Gramscian theory, radical economic geography, and materialist state theory, we find that all their political-economic models have undergone processes of substantial neoliberalisation, albeit to varying degrees and partly …
Uma crise de transição
Após analisar a dimensão espacial da crise econômica mundial, os deslocamentos de poder de longo prazo na economia mundial e a formação de desigualdades globais, o artigo investiga as estratégias regionais de enfrentamento da crise. Nessa direção, busca conhecer os estímulos de uma emancipação econômica e política de diferentes áreas mundiais em relação ao Ocidente - sobretudo no leste da Ásia, na Índia e na América do sul. Tese central: a fase d…
The Yue Yuen Strike
In April 2014, approximately 40,000 workers stalled production at Yue Yuen (YY) Gaobu, a shoemaker, in Guangdong, China. We identify three reasons for the strike: First, China’s rise is leading to a wave of capital relocation to lower wage countries. Accordingly, YY Gaobu faces increasing pressure, which contributes to a deterioration of working conditions to save costs. Second, the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption campaign is creating n…
Socializing Labour Protest
Over the course of the last decade, China has experienced growing labour unrest in many economic sectors including electronics, textiles and services. One reason for this is that the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is not engaged at the shop floor level; it does not represent workers and has failed to organize strikes. Instead, labour non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have stepped in to fill the representation gap and to support …
Political discontent and labour in a post-growth region
The article traces the political economy and labour relations in East Thuringia, a 'post-growth region' in East Germany with a structurally weak periphery and a declining populace. We argue that the regional decline results from a process of peripheralization which has led to economic stagnation and a shrinking population, and also has fostered political discontent. By drawing on a regional survey, an intensive case study at a manufacturing site …
After Neoliberalism? Brazil, India, and China in the Global Economic Crisis
Against the backdrop of debates about ‘post-neoliberalism’, we examine the implications of the global economic crisis for three important semi-peripheral states: Brazil, India, and China. Deploying a framework which combines neo-Gramscian theory, radical economic geography, and materialist state theory, we find that all their political-economic models have undergone processes of substantial neoliberalisation, albeit to varying degrees and partly …
Challenging the three faces of extractivism
The Mapuche movement is among the most important social movements in post-dictatorship Chile. Since the 1990s, the Mapuche struggle has increasingly turned into a violent conflict over land usage and environmental degradation. By referring to theories of global capitalism and political ecology, we show how forestry extractivism has shaped the Mapuche struggle. Based on extensive fieldwork in the region of La Araucanía, we analyze how different fo…
The whole world is becoming more like Russia.” A conversation on deglobalization in the wake of the war in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is having profound repercussions for the international system and the global economy. In this conversation, Boris Kagarlitsky, professor at the Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences and long-standing analyst of Russian society, politics, and the global political economy, discusses the implications of the war on the Russian economy, its financial sector, and the Russian elite. Furthermore, Kagarlitsky analy…
Eine endlose Finanzkrise? Die kapitalistische Weltwirtschaft zwischen Transformation und Refiguration
Die Weltwirtschaft hat seit den 1990er-Jahren eine Reihe von Finanzkrisen durchlaufen, deren Häufigkeit und Intensität in der Nachkriegsgeschichte bisher unbekannt waren. Diese „endlose Krise“ wird meist mit der Finanzialisierung der Volkswirtschaften in Nordamerika, Europa und anderen OECD-Ländern in Verbindung gebracht. In dem Artikel wird der räumlichen Verfasstheit des globalen (Finanzmarkt‐)Kapitalismus eine entscheidende Rolle für die Entst…
Varieties of Digital Capitalism and the US-China Rivalry
The rise of China as a global high-tech nation is challenging US hegemony. While US tech companies like Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft have expanded globally and have integrated most world regions into US-led digital capitalism, China has developed its own variety of digital capitalism. Shielded by the 'Great Firewall', Chinese corporations such as Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent have emerged as innovative high-tech companies. Instead of relying on…
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry
How did geo-economic and technological competition between the United States and China arise? And what is the Chinese perspective on the US-China rivalry? In this forum article, we analyze the conflict from a critical political economy perspective. We argue that the US has mobilized its structural power as the leading high-tech country in global value chains to curtail China’s ascent. By elucidating Chinese responses to American structural power,…
Umkämpfte Globalisierung
The rise of China has led to a series of conflicts with the leading Western countries. The reasons for these disputes are that Chinese corporations have become serious competitors for US and European companies and that there are diverging approaches of governing the market between Western and Chinese power elites. In China, political and economic power are organized differently than in the US and the EU. The party-state is the (partial) owner of …
The Grand Delusions of Globalization
This introductory essay will give a brief overview of the debate on globalization, including different periodizations (500-year perspective 250-year perspective and 50-year perspective) which shape diverging understandings of (de)globalization. Regarding the current conjuncture, we have diagnosed three areas that are causing cracks in the status quo of neoliberal globalization: geoeconomic competition between nation states; conflicts within socie…
World-System of Vaccine Distribution
This article analyzes spatial hierarchies and geopolitical conflicts during the COVID-19 pandemic from a world-systems perspective. Drawing on data on global vaccine production and distribution, we argue that the trimodal structure of the capitalist world-system—core, semi-periphery, and periphery—has been reproduced through unequal access to vaccines, constituting hierarchically structured “vaccine worlds”. These vaccine worlds are geopoliticall…
Prekarität in der chinesischen Hochwachstumsgesellschaft
Uma crise de transição
Após analisar a dimensão espacial da crise econômica mundial, os deslocamentos de poder de longo prazo na economia mundial e a formação de desigualdades globais, o artigo investiga as estratégias regionais de enfrentamento da crise. Nessa direção, busca conhecer os estímulos de uma emancipação econômica e política de diferentes áreas mundiais em relação ao Ocidente - sobretudo no leste da Ásia, na Índia e na América do sul. Tese central: a fase d…
After Neoliberalism? Brazil, India, and China in the Global Economic Crisis
Against the backdrop of debates about ‘post-neoliberalism’, we examine the implications of the global economic crisis for three important semi-peripheral states: Brazil, India, and China. Deploying a framework which combines neo-Gramscian theory, radical economic geography, and materialist state theory, we find that all their political-economic models have undergone processes of substantial neoliberalisation, albeit to varying degrees and partly …
Between Power and Powerlessness
The article analyzes the recent wave of labor unrest in Western Europe after the 2008 financial and economic crisis. It draws theoretically on the global capitalism school and a labor power resource approach, and empirically on a database on social conflict (JenaConDa). Unlike the last cycle of contention between 1968 and 1973, the post-2008 conflicts have changed in two respects: First, the uneven and combined development of European integration…
The Yue Yuen Strike
In April 2014, approximately 40,000 workers stalled production at Yue Yuen (YY) Gaobu, a shoemaker, in Guangdong, China. We identify three reasons for the strike: First, China’s rise is leading to a wave of capital relocation to lower wage countries. Accordingly, YY Gaobu faces increasing pressure, which contributes to a deterioration of working conditions to save costs. Second, the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption campaign is creating n…
Prekarität in der chinesischen Hochwachstumsgesellschaft
Socializing Labour Protest
Over the course of the last decade, China has experienced growing labour unrest in many economic sectors including electronics, textiles and services. One reason for this is that the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is not engaged at the shop floor level; it does not represent workers and has failed to organize strikes. Instead, labour non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have stepped in to fill the representation gap and to support …
The Power Resources Approach
Der Corona-Crash in China
Die Covid-19-Epidemie hat China in eine Wirtschaftskrise getrieben, mit weltweiten Auswirkungen auf Lieferketten und Märkte. Die relativ erfolgreiche Bekämpfung der Epidemie in China hat nun jedoch eine neue Dynamik hervorgerufen: Chinas Ökonomie könnte sich in der Situation als resilienter als die meisten westlichen Volkswirtschaften erweisen. Hierdurch wird auch die hegemoniale Auseinandersetzung mit den USA neu strukturiert
Political discontent and labour in a post-growth region
The article traces the political economy and labour relations in East Thuringia, a 'post-growth region' in East Germany with a structurally weak periphery and a declining populace. We argue that the regional decline results from a process of peripheralization which has led to economic stagnation and a shrinking population, and also has fostered political discontent. By drawing on a regional survey, an intensive case study at a manufacturing site …
Two forms of transnational organizing
It has become a commonplace belief among academics and trade union officials that globalization has weakened trade unions. However, the expansion of global capital has also led to a rise of transnational labor organizing. Since the 2000s, Global Union Federations have developed different strategies to tackle the challenges of globalization. In this article, we analyze two such forms of transnational organizing: A network-based and an event-based …
Das Weltsystem der Impfstoffnutzung
Der Beitrag analysiert räumliche Hierarchien und geopolitische Konfliktdynamiken bei der Bekämpfung der COVID-19-Pandemie aus der Perspektive des Weltsystemansatzes. Datensätze zeigen, dass sich das Modell aus Zentrum, Semiperipherie und Peripherie bei der Impfstoffverteilung und -produktion reproduziert. Die asymmetrische Verteilung von Ressourcen zur Bekämpfung der COVID-19-Krise übersetzt sich in hierarchisch strukturierte Impfstoffwelten, die…
Soziologie der Deglobalisierung
Flassbeck und Steinhardt 2018), einer "gefesselten Globalisierung" (Menzel 2021) oder eines "globalization backlash" (Crouch 2019) hat mittlerweile auch Einzug in der einschlgigen wissenschaftlichen Literatur gehalten. Die globalisierungskritische Konjunktur in den Sozialwissenschaften hat durch die COVID-19-Pandemie und die russische Invasion in der Ukraine einen weiteren Schub bekommen
Challenging the three faces of extractivism
The Mapuche movement is among the most important social movements in post-dictatorship Chile. Since the 1990s, the Mapuche struggle has increasingly turned into a violent conflict over land usage and environmental degradation. By referring to theories of global capitalism and political ecology, we show how forestry extractivism has shaped the Mapuche struggle. Based on extensive fieldwork in the region of La Araucanía, we analyze how different fo…
The whole world is becoming more like Russia.” A conversation on deglobalization in the wake of the war in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is having profound repercussions for the international system and the global economy. In this conversation, Boris Kagarlitsky, professor at the Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences and long-standing analyst of Russian society, politics, and the global political economy, discusses the implications of the war on the Russian economy, its financial sector, and the Russian elite. Furthermore, Kagarlitsky analy…
Umkämpfte Globalisierung
The rise of China has led to a series of conflicts with the leading Western countries. The reasons for these disputes are that Chinese corporations have become serious competitors for US and European companies and that there are diverging approaches of governing the market between Western and Chinese power elites. In China, political and economic power are organized differently than in the US and the EU. The party-state is the (partial) owner of …
Varieties of platform unionism
Nearly three decades ago, Manuel Castells declared the atomising effects of the new technologies of the ‘information age’ to presage the ‘end of labour’. There is little doubt that the labour movement worldwide is no longer the social force it was in the twentieth century. Much of the debate on the future of work and consequences for worker organisation, moreover, has focused on defensive struggles against the introduction of new technologies in …
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry
How did geo-economic and technological competition between the United States and China arise? And what is the Chinese perspective on the US-China rivalry? In this forum article, we analyze the conflict from a critical political economy perspective. We argue that the US has mobilized its structural power as the leading high-tech country in global value chains to curtail China’s ascent. By elucidating Chinese responses to American structural power,…
World-System of Vaccine Distribution
This article analyzes spatial hierarchies and geopolitical conflicts during the COVID-19 pandemic from a world-systems perspective. Drawing on data on global vaccine production and distribution, we argue that the trimodal structure of the capitalist world-system—core, semi-periphery, and periphery—has been reproduced through unequal access to vaccines, constituting hierarchically structured “vaccine worlds”. These vaccine worlds are geopoliticall…
An emerging ‘China-threat-corporatism’? CRRC’s acquisition of a German locomotive company and its impact on labour relations
The China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) is presently the largest player in the global rolling stock industry and has increasingly expanded to mature markets. In 2019, CRRC acquired a German locomotive company, establishing a manufacturing foothold in the EU. This paper presents the findings of extensive field research on the impact of CRRC’s investment on industrial relations. Drawing on comparative capitalisms research and recent deba…
Eine endlose Finanzkrise? Die kapitalistische Weltwirtschaft zwischen Transformation und Refiguration
Die Weltwirtschaft hat seit den 1990er-Jahren eine Reihe von Finanzkrisen durchlaufen, deren Häufigkeit und Intensität in der Nachkriegsgeschichte bisher unbekannt waren. Diese „endlose Krise“ wird meist mit der Finanzialisierung der Volkswirtschaften in Nordamerika, Europa und anderen OECD-Ländern in Verbindung gebracht. In dem Artikel wird der räumlichen Verfasstheit des globalen (Finanzmarkt‐)Kapitalismus eine entscheidende Rolle für die Entst…
The Grand Delusions of Globalization
This introductory essay will give a brief overview of the debate on globalization, including different periodizations (500-year perspective 250-year perspective and 50-year perspective) which shape diverging understandings of (de)globalization. Regarding the current conjuncture, we have diagnosed three areas that are causing cracks in the status quo of neoliberal globalization: geoeconomic competition between nation states; conflicts within socie…
Varieties of Digital Capitalism and the US-China Rivalry
The rise of China as a global high-tech nation is challenging US hegemony. While US tech companies like Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft have expanded globally and have integrated most world regions into US-led digital capitalism, China has developed its own variety of digital capitalism. Shielded by the 'Great Firewall', Chinese corporations such as Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent have emerged as innovative high-tech companies. Instead of relying on…
Avoiding the China shock
The state-backed internationalization of Chinese companies has led to conflicts in the EU over potential market distortions and security concerns. The EU has responded to this challenge with increasing state intervention and defensive measures in trade and investment regulation, competition policy, and industrial policy. Drawing on comparative capitalisms research and Neo-Gramscian perspectives on European integration, we analyze how European eco…
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