Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class

Bill Carroll is a professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, where he directs the Social Justice Studies Program. Among his recent books are Remaking Media (2006), Challenges and Perils (2006) and Critical Strategies for Social Research (2004). He has won the Canadian Sociological Association's John Porter Prize twice, for his books on the structure of corporate power in Canada. He has held visiting fellowships and appointments at the University of Amsterdam, Griffith University, Kanazawa State University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. He is an associate editor of The Journal Socialist Studies, and a member of Sociologists Without Borders.

The longitudinal approach, rigorous empirical research, and great theoretical sensitivity and nuance give the book a unique and exemplary quality. It raises numerous questions for further research and debate and makes a major contribution to critical social research.

• IntroductionPart I: The Formation of a Transnational Corporate Community1. Is there a transnational corporate community?2. Forging a new hegemony: the transnational corporate-policy network, 19963. Global cities in the global corporate networkPart II: Into the 21st Century: The Changing Organization of Corporate Power4. Transnational accumulation and global networking5. Transnationalists and national networkers6. Billionaires and networkers: wealth, position, and corporate powerPart III: A Transnational Historic Bloc?7. Constituting corporate Europe8. Consolidating the transnational corporate-policy network, 1996-20069. Hegemony and counter-hegemony in a global fieldConclusion