Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age

ISBN-13: 9781108731973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 290 str.

Ashok Kumar

Opis

Explores the combination of capital's changing composition and labour's subjective agency.

Recenzje

'Monopsony Capitalism is ambitious, engaging, and provocative, revealing much about the dynamics of conflict and regulation, mainly in the global garment industry ... [a] stimulating contribution that deserves serious attention by all advanced students and scholars interested in eliminating sweatshops.' Stephen J. Frenkel, ILR Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction. The return of the sweatshop; Part I. Past: 1. The bottleneck; 2. The global sweatshop; Part II. Present: 3. China: a strike at a giant footwear producer; 4. India: a warehouse workers struggle at a 'full package' supplier; 5. Honduras: A transnational campaign at a cotton commodity producer; Part III. Future: 6. Cartels of capital; 7. Labour's power in the chain; 8. Conclusion. The end of the sweatshop? Bibliography; Index.