Dev Nathan, Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, S. Rahul

Reverse Subsidies in Global Monopsony Capitalism

Gender, Labour, and Environmental Injustice in Garment Value Chains

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a firm analytical base to discussions about justice and the unequal distribution of gains from global production utilizing the concept of reverse subsidies as the purchase of gendered labour and environmental services below their costs of production. These reverse subsidies are captured, by global brands.

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Produktdetails

• Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781316512272
• ISBN-10: 1316512274
• Artikelnr.: 62297642

Autorenporträt

Dev Nathan is Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi; and Research Director at the GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation, Haryana, India. His research interests range from the nature of global production to development issues of indigenous peoples and gender relations. He co-authored the book Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. Framework: 2. Gender, labour and environmental justice in GVCs
3. Knowledge, global monopsony capitalism and labour
Part II. Factory: 4. Living wages and labour subsidies
5. Extractive labour subsidies: The overuse and discard of women's labour in garment production
6. Gender based violence as supervision
Part III. Household: 7. Rural subsidies
8. The household as production site: Homeworkers and child labour
Part IV. Environment: 9. Tiruppur: The environmental costs of success
10. Externalized costs of cotton production
Part V. Value Capture: 11. Value capture in global monopsony capitalism
12. Conclusion.