Ashok Kumar (University of London Birkbeck)

Monopsony Capitalism

Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the combination of capital's changing composition and labour's subjective agency to examine whether the waning days of the 'sweatshop' have indeed begun. Focused on the garment and footwear sectors, it introduces a universal logic that governs competition and reshapes the chain.

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Produktdetails

• Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 150mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781108731973
• ISBN-10: 110873197X
• Artikelnr.: 59258166

Autorenporträt

Ashok Kumar teaches International Political Economy at Birkbeck, University of London. He has authored and edited a number of publications and is on the editorial collective of Historical Materialism. He completed his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction. The return of the sweatshop
Part I. Past: 1. The bottleneck
2. The global sweatshop
Part II. Present: 3. China: a strike at a giant footwear producer
4. India: a warehouse workers struggle at a 'full package' supplier
5. Honduras: A transnational campaign at a cotton commodity producer
Part III. Future: 6. Cartels of capital
7. Labour's power in the chain
8. Conclusion. The end of the sweatshop? Bibliography
Index.