John Pickles is Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His publications include A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World (2004), Globalization and Regionalization in Post-socialist Economies: the Common Economic Spaces of Europe (edited, 2009), and Towards Better Work: Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains (co-edited with A. Rossi and A Luinstra, 2014). Adrian Smith is Professor of Human Geography and Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. Editor-in-Chief of the journal European Urban and Regional Studies, Dr. Smith has authored and co-edited five books on post-socialist Europe, including Domesticating Neo-Liberalism: Spaces of Economic Practice and Social Reproduction in Post-Socialist Cities (with A. Stenning, A. Rochovská, and D. Świątek, Wiley, 2010). Robert Begg is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Regional Planning at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Milan Buček is Professor and Head of the Department Public Administration and Regional Developmente at the University of Economics in Bratislava. Poli Roukova is a Senior Research Fellow in Economic and Social Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Rudolf Pástor is Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department Public Administration and Regional Developmente at the University of Economics in Bratislava.

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• Series Editors’ Preface viiList of Figures viiiList of Tables xiPreface and Acknowledgements xiiAbbreviations xxiPart One Articulating Capital in Global Production Networks 11 Articulations of Capital 32 Economic Geography, Conjuncture and the Dynamics of Capital 23Part Two Working off the Past: Context and Complexity in Apparel Global Production Networks 533 Working in the Post‐Socialist Apparel Economy 554 Managing Europe’s Golden Bands: Trade Policy and the Regulation of Production Networks (with Robert Begg) 865 Transformations, Legacies and Networks: The State and Market Globalizations (with Robert Begg and Milan Bucě k) 104Part Three Industrial Dynamics, Regionalization and the Conjunctural Economy of Global Production Networks 1356 Theorizing Transition and the Dynamics of Capital: The Diverse Trajectories of Post‐socialist Firms (withRobert Begg, Milan Buček, Poli Roukova, and Rudolf Pastor) 1377 Border Reconfigurations and the Frontiers of Capital (with Robert Begg, Milan Buček, and Rudolf Pastor) 1628 Regionalization and the Palimpsests of Production: Delocalization, Legacies and Firm Differentiation (with Robert Begg and Poli Roukova) 1829 The Cultural Economies of Post‐Socialism: Ethnicity, Garage Firms and Regional Markets (with Robert Begg and Poli Roukova) 214Part Four Conclusion 23710 Conclusion 239Appendix 1 Firm-level Restructuring in the Slovak Textiles and Clothing Sector, 2004–2013 253Appendix 2 Key to Figure 9.14 Dimitrovgrad Market, 2011 257References 260Index 281