Reverse Subsidies in Global Monopsony Capitalism: Gender, Labour, and Environmental Injustice in Garment Value Chains

ISBN-13: 9781316512272 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Dev Nathan

Opis

Purchase of gendered labour and environmental services below costs of production become reverse subsidies, captured by global brands.

Recenzje

'SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association) started organising women workers – working from home such as – quilt makers and garment workers, four decades ago. In fact the work of these women workers was not even counted or considered as work either by the contractors or by the Government. It was SEWA that coined the term 'Homebased Workers.' Today SEWA is glad that this term and the work of women is accepted and recognised globally. In this book, we are happy to note that the authors have integrated homeworkers into the overall analysis of exploitative conditions in global value chains.' Reema Nanavaty, Executive Director, SEWA

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. Framework: 2. Gender, labour and environmental justice in GVCs; 3. Knowledge, global monopsony capitalism and labour; Part II. Factory: 4. Living wages and labour subsidies; 5. Extractive labour subsidies: The overuse and discard of women's labour in garment production; 6. Gender based violence as supervision; Part III. Household: 7. Rural subsidies; 8. The household as production site: Homeworkers and child labour; Part IV. Environment: 9. Tiruppur: The environmental costs of success; 10. Externalized costs of cotton production; Part V. Value Capture: 11. Value capture in global monopsony capitalism; 12. Conclusion.