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.
- ISBN13 9781529210293
- Publish Date 1 September 2021
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bristol University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English