Rethinking Value Chains (eBook, ePUB)

Tackling the Challenges of Global Capitalism
Redaktion: Palpacuer, Florence; Smith, Alistair

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, production processes have become fragmented with a range of activities divided among firms and workers across borders. These global value chains are being strongly promoted by international organisations, such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, but social and political backlash is mounting in a growing variety of forms. This ambitious volume brings together academics and activists from Europe to address the social and environmental imbalances of global production. Thinking creatively about how to reform the current economic system, this book will be essential reading for those interested in building sustainable alternatives at local, regional and global levels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447362142
• Artikelnr.: 62358569

Autorenporträt

Florence Palpacuer is Professor in Management Studies at the University of Montpellier.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction ~ Palpacuer & Smith; PART ONE: CURRENT TRENDS IN GVCS AND
THEIR IMPACTS ON SOCIETY AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT; The global inequality
chain: who gets what, where and how? ~ Campling & Quentin; Global
production networks: The state, power and politics ~ Hess; Green capital
accumulation: Business, power and sustainability in a world of GVCs ~
Ponte; Trade policy for fairer and more equitable GVCs ~ Curran & Eckhardt;
PART TWO: RETHINKING AND REBUILDING VALUE CHAINS: STRENGTHENING THE ROLE OF
NATURE, PEOPLE AND DEMOCRACY; Assessing the social and environmental costs
of GVCs as a tool for change ~ Alliot; Civil society action towards
judiciary changes in the regulation of GVCs ~ Croser; Worker-led strategies
for embarking lead firms into new sourcing practices ~ Smith; Empowering
local communities in their struggle for land and rights: The role of ReAcT
in the Bolloré/Socfin campaign ~ Benchehboune; Conclusion