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Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site
for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in
the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally
related to ecological and human well-being, food products now
travel far flung trade routes to reach us. International trade in
food has tripled in value and quadrupled in volume since 1960 and
tracing the production, movement, transformation, and consumption
of food necessitates research that situates localities within
global networks and facilitates our capacity to "see the trees and
the forest" by zooming from the global to the local and back to the
global. Our need for food is a constant; how we acquire food is a
variable; and the production, commercialization, and consumption of
food therefore offer an invaluable window onto the globalization of
the world we inhabit. Food provides an ideal site for answering the
fundamental questions of governance of central concern to
globalization debates. This book presents recent and
interdisciplinary scholarship about the variety of mechanisms
governing global food systems and their impacts on human and
environmental well-being This book was previously published as a
special issue of Globalizations
Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site
for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in
the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally
related to ecological and human well-being, food products now
travel far flung trade routes to reach us. International trade in
food has tripled in value and quadrupled in volume since 1960 and
tracing the production, movement, transformation, and consumption
of food necessitates research that situates localities within
global networks and facilitates our capacity to "see the trees and
the forest" by zooming from the global to the local and back to the
global. Our need for food is a constant; how we acquire food is a
variable; and the production, commercialization, and consumption of
food therefore offer an invaluable window onto the globalization of
the world we inhabit. Food provides an ideal site for answering the
fundamental questions of governance of central concern to
globalization debates. This book presents recent and
interdisciplinary scholarship about the variety of mechanisms
governing global food systems and their impacts on human and
environmental well-being This book was previously published as a
special issue of Globalizations
Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million
people a year worldwide. The United States, with its complex
regulatory system, has one of the highest rates of occupational
fatality in the developed world, and deteriorating working
conditions more generally. Why, after a century of reform, are U.S.
workers growing less safe and secure? Comparing U.S. regulatory
practices to their European and Latin American counterparts,
Root-Cause Regulation provides insight into the causes of this
downward trend and ways to reverse it, offering lessons for rich
and poor countries alike. The United States assigns responsibility
for wages and hours, collective bargaining, occupational safety,
and the like to various regulatory agencies. In France, Spain, and
their former colonies, a single agency regulates all firms. Drawing
on history, sociology, and economics, Michael Piore and Andrew
Schrank examine why these systems developed differently and how
they have adapted to changing conditions over time. The U.S. model
was designed for the inspection of mass production enterprises by
inflexible specialists and is ill-suited to the decentralized and
destabilized employment of today. In the Franco-Iberian system, by
contrast, the holistic perspective of multitasking generalists
illuminates the root causes of noncompliance—which often lie in
outdated techniques and technologies—and offers flexibility to
tailor enforcement to different firms and market conditions. The
organization of regulatory agencies thus represents a powerful
tool. Getting it right, the authors argue, makes regulation not the
job-killer of neoliberal theory but a generative force for both
workers and employers.
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