Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy--Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, 'Value Chains' examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, this book offers a …
"Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy--Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, 'Value Chains' examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, this book offers a…
Examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, Suwandi offers a empirical analysis of unit labor costs that is closely related to Marx's own theory of exploitation. The author uncovers the concrete processes thr…
"Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy--Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, 'Value Chains' examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, this book offers a…
"This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global South. Without the safety net of the various northern welfare states, inequality in the global South is not mere…
Preface / David Francis, Imraan Valodia and Edward Webster -- Towards a southern approach to inequality : inequality studies in South Africa and the Global South / Edward Webster, Imraan Valodia and David Francis -- Is hierarchy the same as inequality? / Dilip Menon -- Inequalit…
"This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global South. Without the safety net of the various northern welfare states, inequality in the global South is not mere…
"This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global South. Without the safety net of the various northern welfare states, inequality in the global South is not mere…
More than three billion people in the world—half of humankind—live on less than two-and-a-half US dollars per person per day. Excellent books can be found on ending world poverty. These books go into depth on many important aspects of economic development but do not focus on e…
More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.S. dollars per person per day. In this book Gary Fields explains how the poor work, how they have improved their self-employment earning opportunities, how poor-country governments can stimulate more …