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Modern Slavery And The Governance Of Global Value Chains

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 This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. Provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the links between GVCs governance, regulation, and vulnerability to severe forms of labour market exploitation by focusing on governance initiatives that seek to induce corporate action to end or mitigate modern slavery.
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Television In The Streaming Era - The Global Shift

by Jean Chalaby

38,43€ + 10% CARD

 This comprehensive analysis of the TV industry applies a global value chain perspective to the new video ecosystem that combines streaming platforms, tech giants, and digital infrastructure and technologies.
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Television In The Streaming Era - The Global Shift

by Jean Chalaby

38,43€ + 10% CARD

 This comprehensive analysis of the TV industry applies a global value chain perspective to the new video ecosystem that combines streaming platforms, tech giants, and digital infrastructure and technologies.
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Television In The Streaming Era - The Global Shift

by Jean (City University London) Chalaby

39,20€ + 10% CARD

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 This comprehensive analysis of the TV industry applies a global value chain perspective to the new video ecosystem that combines streaming platforms, tech giants, and digital infrastructure and technologies.
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Television In The Streaming Era - The Global Shift

by Jean (City University London) Chalaby

117,61€ + 10% CARD

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 This comprehensive analysis of the TV industry applies a global value chain perspective to the new video ecosystem that combines streaming platforms, tech giants, and digital infrastructure and technologies.
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Reverse Subsidies In Global Monopsony Capitalism - Gender, Labour, And Environmental Injustice In Garment Value Chains

by Dev Nathan, Immanuel Dahagani, Padmini Swaminathan, Purushottam Kumar, S. Rahul, Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee e Sukhpal Singh

121,90€ + 10% CARD

 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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At The Margins Of The Global Market - Making Commodities, Workers, And Crisis In Rural Colombia

by Phillip A. Hough

37,10€ + 10% CARD

 Hough recasts Colombia's endemic rural violence in a world-historical perspective that connects local labour and development dynamics to the arc of US global hegemony. This book will appeal to scholars of labour studies, agrarian studies, development, globalisation, Latin America, political science, political economy and economic sociology.
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At The Margins Of The Global Market - Making Commodities, Workers, And Crisis In Rural Colombia

by Phillip A. Hough

37,10€ + 10% CARD

 Hough recasts Colombia's endemic rural violence in a world-historical perspective that connects local labour and development dynamics to the arc of US global hegemony. This book will appeal to scholars of labour studies, agrarian studies, development, globalisation, Latin America, political science, political economy and economic sociology.
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Friends Of Freedom - The Rise Of Social Movements In The Age Of Atlantic Revolutions

by Micah Alpaugh

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 From the Sons of Liberty to British reformers, Irish nationalists to French Jacobins, Haitian revolutionaries and American Democrats, the greatest social movements of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions grew as part of an interconnected pattern. Friends of Freedom tells how activists worked together across nations to alter and overthrow regimes.
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Reverse Subsidies In Global Monopsony Capitalism - Gender, Labour, And Environmental Injustice In Garment Value Chains

by Dev Nathan, Immanuel Dahagani, Padmini Swaminathan, Purushottam Kumar, S. Rahul, Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee e Sukhpal Singh

124,37€ + 10% CARD

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 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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At The Margins Of The Global Market - Making Commodities, Workers, And Crisis In Rural Colombia

by Phillip A. (Florida Atlantic University) Hough

140,60€ + 10% CARD

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 Hough recasts Colombia's endemic rural violence in a world-historical perspective that connects local labour and development dynamics to the arc of US global hegemony. This book will appeal to scholars of labour studies, agrarian studies, development, globalisation, Latin America, political science, political economy and economic sociology.
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Monopsony Capitalism - Power And Production In The Twilight Of The Sweatshop Age

by Ashok Kumar

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 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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The Sweatshop Regime - Labouring Bodies, Exploitation, And Garments Made In India

by Alessandra (School Of Oriental And African Studies, University Of London) Mezzadri

32,45€ + 10% CARD

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 This book theorises the garment sweatshop in India as a complex 'regime' of exploitation and oppression, jointly crafted by global, regional and local actors, composed of factory and non-factory settings, and working across productive and reproductive realms. It engages with key debates on industrial modernity, modern slavery, and ethical consumerism.
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Gender And Work In Global Value Chains - Capturing The Gains?

by Stephanie (University Of Manchester) Barrientos

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 This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. It examines how gendered patterns of work have changed and explores the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.
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Gender And Work In Global Value Chains - Capturing The Gains?

by Stephanie Barrientos

34,45€ + 10% CARD

 This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. It examines how gendered patterns of work have changed and explores the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.
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Gender And Work In Global Value Chains - Capturing The Gains?

by Stephanie (University Of Manchester) Barrientos

110,85€ + 10% CARD

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 This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. It examines how gendered patterns of work have changed and explores the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.
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Global Value Chains And Development - Redefining The Contours Of 21st Century Capitalism

by Gary Gereffi

42,40€ + 10% CARD

 This book traces the emergence of arguably the most influential approach used to analyze globalization and its impacts. It studies the conceptual foundations of global value chains (GVC) analysis, and the twin pillars of 'governance' and 'upgrading', along with detailed case studies of China, Mexico and other emerging economies.
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Development With Global Value Chains - Upgrading And Innovation In Asia

50,35€ + 10% CARD

 Can firms and economies utilize global value chains (GVC) for development? How can they move from low-income to middle-income and even high-income status? This book addresses these questions through a series of case studies examining upgradation and innovation by firms operating in GVCs in Asia.
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Intangible Economy - How Services Shape Global Production And Consumption

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 Studies the role of services in development and on sectoral issues, with policy considerations embedded in the analysis. Highlights the evolution and significance of services in the global economy, including as a vehicle for development. Discusses the major pillars that hold the services infrastructure together, namely, its governance and financing mechanisms.
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Making Cars In The New India - Industry, Precarity And Informality

by Tom Barnes

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing upon a range of critical social and economic theories, this book argues that the problem of conflict can be addressed by bringing together key elements of GVC and GPN traditions, which focus on firms and inter-firm relations, with social-relational explanations found in theories of social class, gender and caste.
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Development With Global Value Chains - Upgrading And Innovation In Asia

51,37€ + 10% CARD

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 Can firms and economies utilize global value chains (GVC) for development? How can they move from low-income to middle-income and even high-income status? This book addresses these questions through a series of case studies examining upgradation and innovation by firms operating in GVCs in Asia.
ENGLISH

Global Value Chains And Development - Redefining The Contours Of 21st Century Capitalism

by Gary (Duke University, North Carolina) Gereffi

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 This book traces the emergence of arguably the most influential approach used to analyze globalization and its impacts. It studies the conceptual foundations of global value chains (GVC) analysis, and the twin pillars of 'governance' and 'upgrading', along with detailed case studies of China, Mexico and other emerging economies.
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Why Mugabe Won - The 2013 Elections In Zimbabwe And Their Aftermath

by Julia (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Gallagher e Stephen (School Of Oriental And African Studies, University Of London) Chan

121,67€ + 10% CARD

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 An account of the 2013 elections in Zimbabwe, examining the events, personalities and the wider socio-political context that led to President Mugabe's re-election. It is for students and scholars studying African politics, comparative studies and development studies, and for those exploring the political context and history of the region.
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The Sweatshop Regime - Labouring Bodies, Exploitation, And Garments Made In India

by Alessandra (School Of Oriental And African Studies, University Of London) Mezzadri

110,85€ + 10% CARD

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 This book theorises the garment sweatshop in India as a complex 'regime' of exploitation and oppression, jointly crafted by global, regional and local actors, composed of factory and non-factory settings, and working across productive and reproductive realms. It engages with key debates on industrial modernity, modern slavery, and ethical consumerism.
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