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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Long Waves of Class Formation -- Class Formation in the World System -- The Temporal Dimension of Class Formation -- Class Formation and the Political Articulation of Class Interests -- Capital Fractions -- Concepts of Control -- Generations in the Bourgeoisie -- 2 The Rise and Fall of British Hegemony -- The Making of the British Class Structure -- The Rise of British Capitalism -- The Nature of the British State -- The Logic of Priority -- The Class Structure of the Pax Britannica -- The Heyday of British Industrial Capital -- The Aristocratization of the Bourgeoisie -- Britain's Imperial Decline -- British Foreign Investment -- The Incorporation of the Labour Movement -- The Downfall of the Liberal Party -- Towards the General Strike -- 3 Between New Deal and Fascism: Depression, War and Transition in Britain -- The Turn to Protectionism -- Corporate Liberalism in the 1930s -- The Strength of the State Monopoly Bourgeoisie -- The Structure of the British Economy During the 1930s -- The Declining Industries -- The Fordist Industries -- The Balance of Depression -- The Long Decline: Determination vs. Contingency -- 4 The Redefinition of Britain's Global Position 1941-73 -- Global Fordism -- Postwar Reconstruction of the Global Order and the Birth of the 'Special Relation' -- Britain's Relationship with Europe -- Early European Integration Projects -- Suez and the Special Relationship -- The Move Towards Europe -- The World Market and the British Political Economy in the 1950s -- The Multinationalization of the British Economy -- The Effects of City Dominance for British Monetary Policy -- 5 The Postwar Fordist Offensives.

This paper argues that the development towards a common migration policy in the European Union reflects the emergence of a new form of regionalism resulting from the recent structural transformations in the global political economy. The European governments are caught in a web of contradictory interests and tendencies. On one side, the logic of global economic restructuring dictates continued deregulation and flexibilisation of the labour market, implying increased high levels of immigration. On the other hand, the political backlash against globalisation pushes towards a closure of the external borders. The result is the construction of a Fortress Europe, with a set of specific cooperation agreements with the regions surrounding the European Union in order to regulate the inflow of migrants.

Neo-liberal globalisation has primarily entailed the liberalisation of trade and capital flows, but largely ignored the issue of labour mobility. Most literature on the political economy of globalisation likewise ignores global labour mobility. This paper first asks how globalisation affects human mobility. The conclusion is that globalisation integrates the world population into the global labour market in three principal ways: through accelerated commodification of labour power, through the integration via transnational production of national and regional labour markets, and by various (sometimes new) forms of international labour mobility. Regulation of the global economy is increasingly informalised and privatised, argues the paper. This trend is also noticeable in the governance of migration flows. The emerging de facto international regime for the regulation of migration is at the same time restrictive (to curb undesirable forms of migration and strengthen state control) and liberal (to enhance the deregulation and liberalisation of the global economy). This emerging form of governance largely lacks democratic legitimacy. In the final section the paper argues that a new, democratic, multilateral regime for the regulation of migration flows must be set up which can reflect the interests not just of governments and transnational capital, but those of migrants and the populations at large as well. ; Neoliberale Globalisierung hat bisher die Liberalisierung von Handel und Kapitalflüsse impliziert, aber die Frage der Arbeitsmobilität weitgehend ignoriert. Die meiste Verhandlungen über die politische Ökonomie der Globalisierung haben ebenso die internationale Mobilität von Arbeit negiert. Dieses Arbeitspapier fängt an mit der Frage nach den Effekten von Globalisierung auf Mobilität von Personen. Die Schlussfolgerung ist dass Globalisierung die Weltbevölkerung in einen weltweiten Arbeitsmarkt integriert auf drei Weisen: durch beschleunigte commodification (?) der Arbeitskraft, durch Integration (über transnationale Produktion) von nationale und regionale Arbeitsmärkte, und durch verschiedene (manchmal neue) Formen internationaler Arbeitsmobilität. Regulierung der Weltwirtschaft wird zunehmend informell und privatisiert, und diesen Trend lässt sich auch bemerken bei der Regulierung von Migrationsflüsse. Das entstehende Regime für internationale Migration ist zugleich restriktiv (um unerwünschte Migrationsformen entgegen zu gehen und die Kontrolle des Staates zu stärken) und liberal (um die Deregulierung und Liberalisierung der Weltwirtschaft zu ergänzen). Dieses Regime entbehrt demokratische Legitimität. In den letzten Abschnitt wird argumentiert dass ein neues, demokratisches, multilaterales Regime für die Regulation von internationalen Migrationen errichtet werden soll, das sowohl die Interessen von Regierungen und Großunternehmen als auch die Interessen von Aus- und Einwanderer und betroffene Bevölkerungen repräsentieren kann.

Globalization involves the international expansion of market relations & the global pursuit of economic liberalism. The essential factor in this process is commodification, including the commodification of human labor. Globalization integrates an increasing proportion of the world population directly into capitalist labor markets & locks national & regional labor markets into an integrated global labor market. We are on the threshold of global initiatives to shift the balance even further, especially regarding the management of global migration flows. The answer cannot be a return to strictly national forms of migration control & should not be a complete capitulation to market-driven regulation of migration. One possible answer is a new, multilateral, democratically screened, global migration regime to set forth & guarantee the general principles governing the regulation of transnational migrations, ensure proper coordination between regional & national migration regimes, & call into existence new institutional forms of transnational democratic governance. 34 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications, Inc.]