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Nathan, Dev (ed.); Tewari, Meenu (ed.); Sarkar, Sandip (ed.) - 2016

""Brings together a set of studies of labour conditions in GVCs - in labour-intensive sectors, medium- and high-technology …

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At the margins of the global market : making commodities, workers, and crisis in rural Colombia

Hough, Phillip A. - 2022

"Drugs, violence, mafias, death squads, guerrilla armies, authoritarianism, corruption, crisis, death. These are the images conjured up when I tell people about my research on labor regime dynamics in rural Colombia. Sensationalized in popular films and mass media, Colombian society is often...

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The sweatshop regime : labouring bodies, exploitation, and garments made in India

Mezzadri, Alessandra - 2017

Introduction -- The chain and the sweatshop -- The commodity & the sweatshop -- Difference & the sweatshop -- The regional lord & the sweatshop -- The broker & the sweatshop -- The body & the sweatshop -- Conclusions

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At the margins of the global market : making commodities, workers, and crisis in rural Colombia

Hough, Phillip A. - 2022

Contemporary scholars debate the factors driving despotic labour conditions across the world economy. Some emphasize … state violence. At the Margins of the Global Market engages in this debate through a comparative and world …, global commodity chains, and world historical sociology, this book offers a novel understanding of the broad range of factors …

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The sweatshop regime : labouring bodies, exploitation, and garments made in India

Mezzadri, Alessandra - 2017

This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in India. Drawing from Marxian and feminist insights, the book theorises the garment sweatshop in India as a complex 'regime' of exploitation and oppression, jointly crafted by global, regional and local actors,...

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Gender and work in global value chains : capturing the gains?

Barrientos, Stephanie - 2020 - First paperback edition

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. This has affected the working lives of hundreds of millions of workers in high-, middle- and low-income countries. The growth of...

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Monopsony capitalism : power and production in the twilight of the sweatshop age

Kumar, Ashok - 2020

"Monopsony Capitalism 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 - which epitomize the leading edges in the advance of globalization...

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Reverse subsidies in global monopsony capitalism : gender, labour, and environmental injustice in garment value chains

Nathan, Dev - 2022

This book provides a firm analytical base to discussions about injustice and the unequal distribution of gains from global production in the form of global monopsony capitalism. It utilizes the concept of reverse subsidies as the purchase of gendered labour and environmental services below their...

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Gender and work in global value chains : capturing the gains?

Barrientos, Stephanie - 2019

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Television in the streaming era : the global shift

Chalaby, Jean - 2023

infrastructure (communication satellites, subsea cable networks, data centres) and technology (cloud computing, machine learning and …

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