The struggle for development / Ben Selwyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selwyn, Ben, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Physical Description:

viii, 195 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2017.

Summary:

"The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist development? What can be done to overcome this destructive dynamic? In this hard-hitting analysis, Benjamin Selwyn shows how capitalism generates widespread poverty, gender discrimination and environmental destruction. He debunks the World Bank's dollar-a-day methodology for calculating poverty, arguing that the proliferation of global supply chains is based on the labour of impoverished women workers and environmental ruin. Development theories -- from neoliberal to statist and various strands of Marxism -- are revealed as justifying and promoting labouring-class exploitation despite their pro-poor rhetoric. Selwyn also offers an alternative in the form of labour-led development, which shows how collective actions by labouring classes -- can and do generate new forms of human development. This labour-led struggle for development can empower even the poorest nations to overcome many of the obstacles that block their way to more prosperous and equitable lives."-- Back cover.

Contents:

The big lie

Capitalism and poverty

Poverty chains and the world economy

Deepening exploitation : capital-centred development

Resisting exploitation : labour-led development

Beyond exploitation: democratic development.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-184) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Selwyn, Ben, author. Struggle for development

ISBN:

9781509512782

1509512780

9781509512799

1509512799

OCLC:

969416558