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Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics

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Availability:In StockContributor:Benjamin Selwyn, Christin BernholdPublish date:10/22/2025Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198887836ISBN-10:198887833UPC:9780198887836Book Category:Business & Economics, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Money & Monetary Policy, Economics, Public PolicyBook Topic:Social Services & WelfareSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3603Product ID:SC4XA7Z8JQ
Is it true that Global Value Chains (GVCs) 'boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty', as commonly claimed? In this compelling book, Selwyn and Bernhold show how the mainstream notion of GVCs obscures their capitalist character. To transcend this shortcoming, the authors introduce the concept of Capitalist Value Chains (CVCs). They explore how and why CVCs generate many highly exploitative jobs, new forms of poverty, are stunting real human development, and are destroying the world's environment.

CVCs are a historically-specific configuration of capitalist class relations that have been restructured and bolstered through geopolitics. The authors argue that rather than waiting for the elusive benefits of 'economic, social, and environmental upgrading' as promoted in mainstream GVC scholarship, workers' collective actions can improve their pay and conditions-under historically and geographically specific conditions of uneven development. The authors clearly explain how, instead of striving to make CVCs more 'resilient', progressive political economists need to envision a world beyond these capitalist relations of generalized exploitation and appropriation.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198887836ISBN-10:198887833UPC:9780198887836Book Category:Business & Economics, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Money & Monetary Policy, Economics, Public PolicyBook Topic:Social Services & WelfareSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3603Product ID:SC4XA7Z8JQ
Benjamin Selwyn, Professor of International Relations and International Development, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, Christin Bernhold, Junior Professor of Economic and Political Geography, with a focus on Bioeconomy and Sustainability, University of Hamburg

Benjamin Selwyn is Professor of International Relations and International Development, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex. He researches, writes, and teaches about international political economy and development from the vantage point of value chains, food and agriculture, and labour. His previous books include The Struggle for Development (2017).

Christin Bernhold is a Junior Professor of Economic and Political Geography with a focus on Bioeconomy and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg. Her research group investigates corporate strategies in the German meat industry. Her broader academic interests include value chains, agrarian change, and international class relations. Her previous book is titled Global Value Chains and Uneven Development (2022).

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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