Full Description
On February 5th 2002, 800 workers in an English vacuum cleaner factory were told their jobs were relocating to Malaysia. The company claimed this was inevitable. But was it really? Using extensive archival research, ethnographic storytelling and local myths to powerful effect, this bold new book uses the closure of one factory as a case study to explore the contradictions of globalisation and the sociological problem of order.Deftly examining how global network capitalism operates within and through particular places at particular moments, the book raises fundamental questions about the meaning of society.
Contents
IntroductionHobbes and the AirbladeTwo Escaped PigsQuasi-Subjects/Quasi-ObjectsHannah Twynnoy/Twynney 'Kil'd by a Tygre'Decisions, conditions and 'matters of fact'Eilmer the 'Flying' MonkA shadow factory, outsourcing and dating a non-event9,000 Patents or GBP9,000 feesThing TheoryThe Problem of Order. Where is society now?In Conclusion
