Throughout recent economic history, social struggle over the regulation and distribution of social costs, benefits and risks associated with capitalist economic relations have been both pervasive and continually evolving. Such contestation surrounding how capitalist forms of accumulation,...

From corporate boardrooms to the butcher's paper and whiteboards of activist workshops, the phrase ‘supply chain politics' has become increasingly commonplace. It is now routine practice for major global companies to hire specialist staff responsible for ‘supply chain compliance', which...

There is a rising sense within contemporary global politics that the advance of those processes of global interconnectedness that we bluntly refer to as globalisation brings with it increasing problems of injustice on a global scale, in the form of entrenched poverty, social exclusion and the...

This paper reviews a range of initiatives that attempt to transform the global institutional arrangements through which production and trade of coffee is organised and governed. Specifically, it examines the Fair Trade system, Starbucks' CAFÉ Practices Program, and a range of wider campaigning...

In recent years, one of the central claims promoted by critics of “globalization” has been that the existing system of global economic governance is being undermined by the emergence of “accountability deficits.” According to this widespread view, the expanding power of multinational...