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Product Identifiers

PublisherMonthly Review Press

ISBN-10158367781X

ISBN-139781583677810

eBay Product ID (ePID)8038635193

Product Key Features

Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NameValue Chains : the New Economic Imperialism

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

SubjectGlobalization, Geopolitics, Management, Economics / Theory

TypeTextbook

AuthorIntan Suwandi

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews"This book belongs on the shelf alongside Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine as one of the most powerful indictments of capital in our era."-John Bellamy Foster,Editor of Monthly Review

SynopsisWinner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy--Paul A. Baran Memorial Award, this volume examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South, focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains and offering a deft empirical analysis of unit labor costs that is closely related to Marx's own theory of exploitation.tion., Award-winning book showcases case studies uncovering the exploitation of labor and class in the Global South Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy--Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, Value Chains examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, this book offers a deft empirical analysis of unit labor costs that is closely related to Marx's own theory of exploitation. Value Chains uncovers the concrete processes through which multinational corporations, located primarily in the Global North, capture value from the Global South. We are brought face to face with various state-of-the-art corporate strategies that enforce "economical" and "flexible" production, including labor management methods, aimed to reassert the imperial dominance of the North, while continuing the dependency of the Global South and polarizing the global economy. Case studies of Indonesian suppliers exemplify the growing burden borne by the workers of the Global South, whose labor creates the surplus value that enriches the capitalists of the North, as well as the secondary capitals of the South. Today, those who control the value chains and siphon off the profits are primarily financial interests with vast economic and political power--the power that must be broken if the global working class is to liberate itself. Suwandi's book depicts in concrete detail the relations of unequal exchange that structure today's world economy. This study, up-to-date and richly documented, puts labor and class back at the center of our understanding of the world capitalist system.