The new finance capital has blurred the line between industrial and financial corporations

The difference between industrial and financial corporations is no longer clear. Both are now units of finance capital organised around managing portfolios of financial assets. Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno write that the global restructuring that has accompanied these developments has certainly made working class life more precarious, but far from simply ‘hollowing out’ production, finance has in fact been integral to the capitalist globalisation of recent decades.