Arguing against those who say that our communities are powerless in the face of footloose corporations, DeFilippis considers what localities can do in the face of heightened capital mobility in order to retain an autonomy that furthers egalitarian social justice, and explores how we go about accomplishing this in practical, political terms.

James DeFilippis is Assistant Professor of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College.

Introduction: Challenging Capital Mobility Through Local Control 1. Local Autonomy in the New Urban Politics of Capital Mobility 2. The Local State and the Politics of Local Economic Development 3. Collective Ownership and Local Control: The Long View 4. From Community Control to Non-Confrontational Organizing: Critiquing the Politics of Community Organizing and Development from the 1960s to the Present 5. Collective Ownership of the Means of Production 6. Collective Ownership of the Means of Reproduction 7. Collective Ownership of the Means of Exchange 8. A Voyage to Lilliput? The Potential of Localized Collectives in the Global Economy Epilogue: Our Resistance Must Be Local as Capitalism