Description
| Product ID: | 9781108731973 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains |
| Title: | Monopsony Capitalism |
| Subtitle: | Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age |
| Authors: | Author: Ashok Kumar |
| Page Count: | 290 |
| Subjects: | Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics, Economics of industrial organization, Labour / income economics, Economic growth, Development economics and emerging economies, Political economy, Economic systems and structures, Economics of industrial organisation, Labour economics, Economic growth, Development economics & emerging economies, Political economy, Economic systems & structures, Indian sub-continent, South East Asia |
| Description: | 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. 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. By analysing workers'' collective action at various sites of production, it observes how this internal logic plays out for labour who are testing the limits of the social order, stretching it until the seams show. By examining the most valorised parts of underdeveloped sectors, one can see where capital is going and how it is getting there. These findings contribute to ongoing efforts to establish workers'' rights in sectors plagued by poverty and powerlessness, building fires and collapses. With this change and a capable labour movement, there''s hope yet that workers may close the gap. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-29 |
