Richard P Appelbaum
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3630229 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard P Appelbaum |
| PRENOMES | Richard P |
| SOBRENOME | Appelbaum |
| ASSINATURA | APPELBAUM R P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4097-9850 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Essentials of Sociology
Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Sociology
Essentials of Sociology
Nanotechnology in Mexico
Globalization with Chinese Characteristics
This article introduces a special issue on globalization 'with Chinese characteristics', but also makes its own contribution to the debates. It does so by focusing on the implications of China's rise for the nature and consequences of globalization as a distinct formation. It argues that globalization needs to be understood, in part, as the externalization of particular national forms of capitalism in particular historical periods. In this contex…
The National Nanotechnology Initiative
Developmental state and innovation
In this article we examine the role of the Chinese government in fostering advances in nanotechnology, while looking at the promises and pitfalls of state-led development in the world's fastest-growing major economy. China, like many countries involved in catch-up development, is convinced that manufacturing prowess alone is not enough to make it a leading economic power in the twenty-first century. Our concern here is how, within the context of …
Socioeconomic Differentials in Global Exposure
Compiling several national survey data collected in Taiwan during 2000–2008, this study examines the differences in individuals' exposure to globalization. The authors conceptualize global exposure in terms of cross-border, transnational network relationships and consumption of global cultural products. The authors explore the effects of socioeconomic differences (education, occupational status, and income) on four dimensions of individual global…
China's New Labour Contract Law
China's new labour law is a significant reform that offers workers greater employment security and income protection. It is a product of both unprecedented industrial unrest as well as the Chinese government's decision to move its economy to a higher-wage, higher-technology future. The law has energised many workers, who are now using the courts and the Communist Party-controlled trade unions to press their claims. But the law has also evoked a s…
A New World of Retail Supremacy
In contrast to the mid-twentieth century era of transnational commerce, in which the US or European manufacturing multinationals played the leading role, twenty-first century globalization is increasingly structured by a set of retail-dominated supply chains, that of Wal-Mart first among them. This strategic shift in the locus of corporate power has arisen out of two conjoined phenomena: first, the logistical integration made possible and necessa…
The Sweatshop Epidemic
has been nearly a decade since 71 young garment workers from Thailand escaped from slave labor in a garment factory in El Monte, an urban suburb of Los Angeles. That scandalous event some of the women had been in captivity for as long as seven years, sewing clothing for Montgomery Ward, BUM Pacific, and other well-known companies focused national attention on sweatshop production in the apparel industry. Because the apparel industry is so labor i…
Monitoring Sweatshops
Global Civil Society
Toward Spatially Integrated Social Science
This article outlines the motivation for a spatial approach as a novel focus for cross-disciplinary interaction and research in the social and behavioral sciences. The authors review the emerging interest in space and place in the recent social science literature and develop a vision for a spatially integrated social science. This vision provides the conceptual basis for a program of six activities designed to promote a spatial perspective: learn…
The Future of Law in a Global Economy
In this paper I challenge the notion that an emerging global legal culture modeled on US legal practices will necessarily come to dominate global legal practices in the economic sphere. Rather, I argue that the ascendance of Asian economic power will have significant implications for the sorts of legal as well as business institutions that are likely to dominate in the next century. Specifically, I argue that Chinese busi ness culture, with its e…
Cheap Labor Strategies and Export-Oriented Industrialization
In today's global manufacturing system, production is increasingly dispersed across borders. Particularly noteworthy is the rapid expansion of industrial exports from third world countries, especially the NICs of East Asia. With the entry of the formerly socialist countries of eastern Europe into the global capitalist economy, the dynamics of global economic restructuring are likely to change. This paper focuses on the lessons that can be learned…
Imperatives for profitability in labor-intensive export industries
Global and local subcontracting
The Political Economy of the East Asian NICs
States and Development in the Asian Pacific Rim
Down and Out in America
The Redistributional Impact of Modern Rent Control
Since the early 1970s over 200 cities in the United States of America have enacted rent control. Currently 10% of the nation's renters are covered by some form of rent regulation, yet little is known about the economic consequences of rent control. Most evidence suggests that modern rent controls have little or no impact on the amount of investment in rental housing. Such a finding is primarily because of the nonrestrictive nature of most current…
The affordability gap
Theories of social change
China's New Labour Contract Law
China's new labour law is a significant reform that offers workers greater employment security and income protection. It is a product of both unprecedented industrial unrest as well as the Chinese government's decision to move its economy to a higher-wage, higher-technology future. The law has energised many workers, who are now using the courts and the Communist Party-controlled trade unions to press their claims. But the law has also evoked a s…
Toward a Sociology of Rent
We critically examine conventional economic models which assume that urban rental markets are competitive and that rent levels are determined solely by the supply and demand for housing. A review of previous research on local housing markets indicates that social factors—such as the high degree of organization among profes-sional landlords—restrict competition and affect the price of rental housing. We present a regression analysis of 1980 median…
Globalization with Chinese Characteristics
This article introduces a special issue on globalization 'with Chinese characteristics', but also makes its own contribution to the debates. It does so by focusing on the implications of China's rise for the nature and consequences of globalization as a distinct formation. It argues that globalization needs to be understood, in part, as the externalization of particular national forms of capitalism in particular historical periods. In this contex…
Marx's Theory of the Falling Rate of Profit
Conventional sociological theory is unable to account for endogenous change at the structural level. While various sociologists have attempted to develop aframework that would account for such change by abstracting formalized elements out of Marxist theory, these efforts-precisely because of their highly formal nature-are unsuccessful. Marx's theory itself seeks to explain change as built into the contradictory survival requirements of class soci…
Developmental state and innovation
In this article we examine the role of the Chinese government in fostering advances in nanotechnology, while looking at the promises and pitfalls of state-led development in the world's fastest-growing major economy. China, like many countries involved in catch-up development, is convinced that manufacturing prowess alone is not enough to make it a leading economic power in the twenty-first century. Our concern here is how, within the context of …
A New World of Retail Supremacy
In contrast to the mid-twentieth century era of transnational commerce, in which the US or European manufacturing multinationals played the leading role, twenty-first century globalization is increasingly structured by a set of retail-dominated supply chains, that of Wal-Mart first among them. This strategic shift in the locus of corporate power has arisen out of two conjoined phenomena: first, the logistical integration made possible and necessa…
Global and local subcontracting
Cheap Labor Strategies and Export-Oriented Industrialization
In today's global manufacturing system, production is increasingly dispersed across borders. Particularly noteworthy is the rapid expansion of industrial exports from third world countries, especially the NICs of East Asia. With the entry of the formerly socialist countries of eastern Europe into the global capitalist economy, the dynamics of global economic restructuring are likely to change. This paper focuses on the lessons that can be learned…
The Future of Law in a Global Economy
In this paper I challenge the notion that an emerging global legal culture modeled on US legal practices will necessarily come to dominate global legal practices in the economic sphere. Rather, I argue that the ascendance of Asian economic power will have significant implications for the sorts of legal as well as business institutions that are likely to dominate in the next century. Specifically, I argue that Chinese busi ness culture, with its e…
The Redistributional Impact of Modern Rent Control
Since the early 1970s over 200 cities in the United States of America have enacted rent control. Currently 10% of the nation's renters are covered by some form of rent regulation, yet little is known about the economic consequences of rent control. Most evidence suggests that modern rent controls have little or no impact on the amount of investment in rental housing. Such a finding is primarily because of the nonrestrictive nature of most current…
The National Nanotechnology Initiative
Socioeconomic Differentials in Global Exposure
Compiling several national survey data collected in Taiwan during 2000–2008, this study examines the differences in individuals' exposure to globalization. The authors conceptualize global exposure in terms of cross-border, transnational network relationships and consumption of global cultural products. The authors explore the effects of socioeconomic differences (education, occupational status, and income) on four dimensions of individual global…
The affordability gap
Born-Again Functionalism? a Reconsideration of Althusser's Structuralism
Less than a decade ago, for those of us in the United-States who experienced the sixties as much in the streets as in the lecture hall, Marxism first emerged as a serious intellectual alternative to conventional social science. Not that Marxism was totally new to us : lost of us as read the Communist Manifesto in some introductory philosophy course, learned that Marx believed all societies had to pass through certain necessary stages (and had the…
The future is made, not predicted
Global Civil Society
The Sociology of Progress
City Size and Urban Life
For reasons of greater selectivity, lower regeneration energy requirements, reduced corrosivity and possible greater amine stability, MDEA continues to replace DEA in numerous selective H/sub 2/S removal applications. Solvent changeouts from DEA to MDEA often require no equipment modification, yet they are generally achieved by shutting down the plant, draining the old solvent, cleaning, and finally recharging with MDEA. However, in at least one …
The future is made, not predicted
Size, Growth, and Urban Life
"Growth" is a key issue facing many American communities today. Although numerous cities have imposed growth-control measures in an effort to contain the perceived ill- effects of excessive growth, relatively little is actually known about the effects of size and growth on urban life. Using 18 indicators of various aspects of urban life, this study analyzes 115 geographically self-contained American cities, between 50,000 and 400,000 population i…
The Effects of Urban Growth
Marx's Theory of the Falling Rate of Profit
Conventional sociological theory is unable to account for endogenous change at the structural level. While various sociologists have attempted to develop aframework that would account for such change by abstracting formalized elements out of Marxist theory, these efforts-precisely because of their highly formal nature-are unsuccessful. Marx's theory itself seeks to explain change as built into the contradictory survival requirements of class soci…
Response to Goldfrank
Born-Again Functionalism? a Reconsideration of Althusser's Structuralism
Less than a decade ago, for those of us in the United-States who experienced the sixties as much in the streets as in the lecture hall, Marxism first emerged as a serious intellectual alternative to conventional social science. Not that Marxism was totally new to us : lost of us as read the Communist Manifesto in some introductory philosophy course, learned that Marx believed all societies had to pass through certain necessary stages (and had the…
Size, Growth and U.S. Cities
Swedish Housing in the Postwar Period
This article examines Swedish housing policy during the postwar period. It looks at the extent to which Social Democratic housing goals have been met, and some reasons for the successes and failures of Swedish housing programs. Of particular interest is the effort to steer housing production toward nonmarket alternatives, by means of "socialist market" mechanisms. Some of the problems created by this hybrid approach are identified and current eff…
America's Housing Crisis
Toward a Sociology of Rent
We critically examine conventional economic models which assume that urban rental markets are competitive and that rent levels are determined solely by the supply and demand for housing. A review of previous research on local housing markets indicates that social factors—such as the high degree of organization among profes-sional landlords—restrict competition and affect the price of rental housing. We present a regression analysis of 1980 median…
Rethinking Rental Housing
In recent years, almost daily media attention has been focused on the plight of the homeless in cities across the United States. Drawing upon experiences in the U.S. and Europe, John Gilderbloom and Richard Appelbaum challenge conventional assumptions concerning the operation of housing markets and provide policy alternatives directed at the needs of low- and moderate-income families. Rethinking Rental Housing is a ground-breaking analysis that s…
The affordability gap
Rethinking Rental Housing
Down and Out in America
The Redistributional Impact of Modern Rent Control
Since the early 1970s over 200 cities in the United States of America have enacted rent control. Currently 10% of the nation's renters are covered by some form of rent regulation, yet little is known about the economic consequences of rent control. Most evidence suggests that modern rent controls have little or no impact on the amount of investment in rental housing. Such a finding is primarily because of the nonrestrictive nature of most current…
States and Development in the Asian Pacific Rim
The Political Economy of the East Asian NICs
Global and local subcontracting
Imperatives for profitability in labor-intensive export industries
Cheap Labor Strategies and Export-Oriented Industrialization
In today's global manufacturing system, production is increasingly dispersed across borders. Particularly noteworthy is the rapid expansion of industrial exports from third world countries, especially the NICs of East Asia. With the entry of the formerly socialist countries of eastern Europe into the global capitalist economy, the dynamics of global economic restructuring are likely to change. This paper focuses on the lessons that can be learned…
The Future of Law in a Global Economy
In this paper I challenge the notion that an emerging global legal culture modeled on US legal practices will necessarily come to dominate global legal practices in the economic sphere. Rather, I argue that the ascendance of Asian economic power will have significant implications for the sorts of legal as well as business institutions that are likely to dominate in the next century. Specifically, I argue that Chinese busi ness culture, with its e…
Toward Spatially Integrated Social Science
This article outlines the motivation for a spatial approach as a novel focus for cross-disciplinary interaction and research in the social and behavioral sciences. The authors review the emerging interest in space and place in the recent social science literature and develop a vision for a spatially integrated social science. This vision provides the conceptual basis for a program of six activities designed to promote a spatial perspective: learn…
Global Civil Society
Political science (21 obras) · Economics (20 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Business (14 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · China (8 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 obras) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (6 obras)