Rethinking value chains : tackling the challenges of global capitalism / edited by Florence Palpacuer and Alistair Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palpacuer, Florence, editor.

Smith, Alistair, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 206 pages) ; illustrations, charts.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol Policy Press 2021

Bristol, England : Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Part II Strengthening the role of people and democracy

five Civil society action towards judiciary changes in the regulation of global value chains

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

Conclusion

four Trade policy for fairer and more equitable global value chains

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?

two Global inequality chains: how global value chains and wealth chains (re)produce inequalities of wealth

The structure of GVCs and value capture

GVC upgrading and the 'smile curve'

Global wealth chains

The global inequality chain

Conclusions and ways forward

three Orchestrating environmental sustainability in a world of global value chains

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

Part I Mounting issues in the governance of global value chains

one Global production networks: the state, power and politics

Reconsidering state roles in GPNs

GPNs and the integral state

'States of discipline': GPNs, the integral state and labour control

Notes:

Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches.

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4473-5918-6

OCLC:

1263024963