China is in the midst of transitioning from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by innovation and knowledge. In this up-to-date investigation, leading experts evaluate China's state-led approach to science and technology and provide a comprehensive analysis of which policies have...

Half title page -- Half title verso -- Title page -- Title verso -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: The Legal Culture of Global Business Transactions -- Part One. The New Global Environment of Business Transactions -- 1. Sovereignty and...

In this study, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare state and its strong unions and the rise in global and...