Rethinking value chains : tackling the challenges of global capitalism

Rethinking value chains tackling the challenges of global capitalism

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This original volume brings together academics and activists from Europe to think creatively about the social and environmental imbalances of global production and how to reform the current economic system.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Palpacuer, Florence, editor (editor), Smith, Alistair, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, England : Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press 2021.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Capitalism.
Globalization > Economic aspects.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A creative approach to regulation in a neoliberal policy environment
  • The Transparency in Supply Chains clause in the Modern Slavery Act 2015
  • Monitoring and enforcement: the missing pieces
  • From reporting to acting: mandatory HRDD and parent company liability
  • Alignment across Europe, without Europe?
  • Note
  • References
  • six Assessing the economic, social and environmental impacts of global value chains as a tool for change
  • Introduction
  • Information for citizen action: the background
  • Mining data or data minefields? The missing information on value chains
  • Making the TSD chapters subject to the same dispute settlement as other parts of the agreement
  • Addressing enforcement
  • Addressing the negative distributional effects of trade within FTAs
  • Preferential access: the Generalized System of Preferences regime
  • Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part II Strengthening the role of people and democracy
  • five Civil society action towards judiciary changes in the regulation of global value chains
  • Introduction
  • CORE: a civil society coalition pushing for corporate responsibility
  • Empirical insights from the coffee and biofuels GVCs
  • Coffee
  • Bargaining power
  • Demonstrative power
  • Institutional power
  • Constitutive power
  • Orchestration
  • Biofuels
  • Bargaining power
  • Demonstrative power
  • Institutional power
  • Constitutive power
  • Orchestration
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • four Trade policy for fairer and more equitable global value chains
  • Introduction
  • Setting the context
  • Bilateral agreement: FTAs
  • Making the entering into force of an agreement conditional on ratification and application of a list of conventions
  • Towards deglobalisation and new economic nationalism?
  • Notes
  • References
  • two Global inequality chains: how global value chains and wealth chains (re)produce inequalities of wealth
  • Introduction
  • The structure of GVCs and value capture
  • GVC upgrading and the 'smile curve'
  • Global wealth chains
  • The global inequality chain
  • Conclusions and ways forward
  • Note
  • References
  • three Orchestrating environmental sustainability in a world of global value chains
  • Introduction
  • Orchestration for sustainability
  • Governance and power in GVCs
  • Front Cover
  • Rethinking Value Chains: Tackling the Challenges of Global Capitalism
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Rethinking value chains in times of crisis
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part I Mounting issues in the governance of global value chains
  • one Global production networks: the state, power and politics
  • Introduction
  • Reconsidering state roles in GPNs
  • GPNs and the integral state
  • 'States of discipline': GPNs, the integral state and labour control

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