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Labour realities at Amazon and COVID-19: obstacles and collective possibilities for its warehouse workers and MTurk workers 亚马逊的劳工现实和COVID-19:仓库工人和土耳其工人的障碍和集体可能性

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-06-07 DOI: 10.1332/uvgt2823

Sarra Kassem

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引用次数: 5

Global political economy, additional blind spots and the ‘US or Europe’ problem: lessons from East Asia 全球政治经济、额外盲点和“美国还是欧洲”问题:来自东亚的教训

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-06-07 DOI: 10.1332/lmin7644

Saori Shibata

引用次数: 1

Critical junctures and state actors: towards a micro-strategies approach of the Global Political Economy 关键时刻和国家行为体:走向全球政治经济的微观战略方法

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-06-04 DOI: 10.1332/wjzz8940

Inga Rademacher

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引用次数: 1

Fighting the beast of the apocalypse: three fundamental reasons for a critical political economy approach to global political economy 与天启之兽作斗争:对全球政治经济学采取批判政治经济学方法的三个基本原因

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-05-24 DOI: 10.1332/jzoz1019

J. Jäger

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引用次数: 1

Monoliths of authoritarianism, cartographies of popular disenfranchisement and the ascendance of the far-right in Estonia 专制主义的巨石，民众被剥夺公民权的地图，以及爱沙尼亚极右翼势力的崛起

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-05-24 DOI: 10.1332/mdxm1896

Jokubas Salyga

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引用次数: 1

Building alternative scholarly folklores: an intellectual-institutional history of Global Political Economy 构建另类学术民间传说:全球政治经济学的知识制度史

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.1332/ypmh6034

Ian Bruff

引用次数: 1

The Global Political Economy of the imperial mode of living 帝国生活模式下的全球政治经济

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.1332/peir2693

Ulrich Brand

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Contemporary Capitalism 当代资本主义

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2021-08-19 DOI: 10.4324/9781003240921-6

Gregory Albo

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The Agrarian Question a Century After 1917: Capitalism in Agriculture and Agricultures in Capitalism1 1917年以后一个世纪的土地问题:农业中的资本主义和资本主义中的农业

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2021-08-19 DOI: 10.4324/9781003240921-10

Samir Amin

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Political Economy of Employment-Unemployment in Capitalism 就业的政治经济学——资本主义的失业

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2021-08-19 DOI: 10.4324/9781003240921-8

Satyaki Roy

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