Frontiers of commodity chain research
By: edited by Jennifer Bair.
Contributors: Bair, Jennifer, 1973-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780804759236; 9780804759243
Subjects: Commercial products; International trade; International division of labor; International economic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Commodity chains : genealogy and review / Jennifer Bair; title: Historicizing commodity chains : five hundred years of the global coffee commodity chain / Steven Topik; title: Trading up the commodity chain? : the impact of extractive and labor-intensive manufacturing trade on world-system inequalities / David Smith and Matthew Mahutga; title: Protection networks and commodity chains in the capitalist world-economy / Immanuel Wallerstein; title: The comparative advantages of tropical commodity chain analysis / John Talbot; title: From commodity chains to value chains : interdisciplinary theory building in an age of globalization / Timothy J. Sturgeon; title: Global commodity chains, market makers, and the rise of demand-responsive economies / Gary Gereffi and Gary Hamilton; title: Mimicking "lean" in global value chains : it's the workers who get leaned on / Kate Raworth and Thalia Kidder; title: Unveiling the unveiling : commodity chains, commodity fetishism, and the "value" of voluntary, ethical food labels / Julie Guthman; title: Chain (re)actions : comparing activist mobilization against biotechnology in Britain and the U.S. / William Munro and Rachel Schurman.