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Exploring the contentious relationship between trade and labour,
this book looks at the impact of the EU's 'new generation' free
trade agreements on workers. Drawing upon extensive original
research, including over 200 interviews with key actors across the
EU and its trading partners, it considers the effectiveness of the
trade-labour linkage in an era of global value chains. The EU
believes trade can work for all, claiming that labour provisions in
its free trade agreements ensure that economic growth and high
labour standards go hand-in-hand. Yet whether these actually make a
difference to workers is strongly contested. This book explains why
labour provisions have been profoundly limited in the EU's
agreements with the CARIFORUM group, South Korea and Moldova. It
also shows how the provisions were mismatched with the most
pressing workplace concerns in the key export industries of sugar,
automobiles and clothing, and how these concerns were exacerbated
by the agreements' commercial provisions. This pioneering approach
to studying the trade-labour linkage provides insights into key
debates on the role of civil society in trade governance, the
relationship between public and private labour regulation, and the
progressive possibilities for trade policy in the twenty-first
century. This book will appeal to research scholars, post-graduate
students, trade policy practitioners, policy researchers allied to
labour movements, and informed activists.
Exploring the contentious relationship between trade and labour,
this book looks at the impact of the EU's 'new generation' free
trade agreements on workers. Drawing upon extensive original
research, including over 200 interviews with key actors across the
EU and its trading partners, it considers the effectiveness of the
trade-labour linkage in an era of global value chains. The EU
believes trade can work for all, claiming that labour provisions in
its free trade agreements ensure that economic growth and high
labour standards go hand-in-hand. Yet whether these actually make a
difference to workers is strongly contested. This book explains why
labour provisions have been profoundly limited in the EU's
agreements with the CARIFORUM group, South Korea and Moldova. It
also shows how the provisions were mismatched with the most
pressing workplace concerns in the key export industries of sugar,
automobiles and clothing, and how these concerns were exacerbated
by the agreements' commercial provisions. This pioneering approach
to studying the trade-labour linkage provides insights into key
debates on the role of civil society in trade governance, the
relationship between public and private labour regulation, and the
progressive possibilities for trade policy in the twenty-first
century. This book will appeal to research scholars, post-graduate
students, trade policy practitioners, policy researchers allied to
labour movements, and informed activists.
This book argues that class relations are constitutive of
development processes and central to understanding inequality
within and between countries. It does so via a transdisciplinary
approach that draws on case studies from Asia, Latin America and
sub-Saharan Africa. Contributors illustrate and explain the
diversity of forms of class relations, and the ways in which they
interplay with other social relations of dominance and
subordination, such as gender and ethnicity as part of a wider
project to revitalise class analysis in the study of development
problems and experiences. Class is conceived as arising out of
exploitative social relations of production, but is formulated
through and expressed by multiple determinations. By illuminating
the diversity of social formations, this book illustrates the depth
and complexity present in Marx's method. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
This book argues that class relations are constitutive of
development processes and central to understanding inequality
within and between countries. It does so via a transdisciplinary
approach that draws on case studies from Asia, Latin America and
sub-Saharan Africa. Contributors illustrate and explain the
diversity of forms of class relations, and the ways in which they
interplay with other social relations of dominance and
subordination, such as gender and ethnicity as part of a wider
project to revitalise class analysis in the study of development
problems and experiences. Class is conceived as arising out of
exploitative social relations of production, but is formulated
through and expressed by multiple determinations. By illuminating
the diversity of social formations, this book illustrates the depth
and complexity present in Marx's method. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Winner of the IPEG 2022 Book Prize The global ocean has through the
centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and
supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are
drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines
developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to
absorb the toxic discharges of our carbon civilization - warming,
expanding, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways
that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the
rest of the biosphere. In this bold and radical new book, Campling
and Colás analyse these and other sea-related phenomena through a
historical and geographical lens. In successive chapters dealing
with the political economy, ecology and geopolitics of the sea, the
authors argue that the earth's geographical separation into land
and sea has significant consequences for capitalist development.
The distinctive features of this mode of production continuously
seek to transcend the land-sea binary in an incessant quest for
profit, engendering new alignments of sovereignty, exploitation and
appropriation in the capture and coding of maritime spaces and
resources.
There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization
of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form
of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the
structuring, organization and dynamics of global systems of
production and reproduction. The concept has a long heritage that
can be traced back to the 1970s and the contributions to this book
seek to develop further this emerging field. The book traces the
intellectual development of labour regime concepts across various
disciplines, notably political economy, development studies,
sociology and geography. Building on these foundations it considers
conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production
relating to issues of scale, informality, gender, race, social
reproduction, ecology and migration, and offers new insights into
the work conditions of global production chains from Amazon's
warehouses in the United States, to industrial production networks
in the Global South, and to the dormitory towns of migrant workers
in Czechia. It also explores recent mobilizations of labour regime
analysis in relation to methods, theory and research practice.
There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization
of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form
of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the
structuring, organization and dynamics of global systems of
production and reproduction. The concept has a long heritage that
can be traced back to the 1970s and the contributions to this book
seek to develop further this emerging field. The book traces the
intellectual development of labour regime concepts across various
disciplines, notably political economy, development studies,
sociology and geography. Building on these foundations it considers
conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production
relating to issues of scale, informality, gender, race, social
reproduction, ecology and migration, and offers new insights into
the work conditions of global production chains from Amazon's
warehouses in the United States, to industrial production networks
in the Global South, and to the dormitory towns of migrant workers
in Czechia. It also explores recent mobilizations of labour regime
analysis in relation to methods, theory and research practice.
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Today, production processes have become fragmented with a range of
activities divided among firms and workers across borders. These
global value chains are being strongly promoted by international
organisations, such as the World Bank and the World Trade
Organization, but social and political backlash is mounting in a
growing variety of forms. This ambitious volume brings together
academics and activists from Europe to address the social and
environmental imbalances of global production. Thinking creatively
about how to reform the current economic system, this book will be
essential reading for those interested in building sustainable
alternatives at local, regional and global levels.
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