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020			_a9781583677810
082			_a331.1091724 _bS8V2
100			_aSuwandi, Intan _9394754
245			_aValue chains: the new economic imperialism
260			_bMonthly Review Press _c2019 _aNew York
300			_a215 p. _bIncludes bibliographical references and index
504			_aTable of Contents 1.The Hidden Abode of Global Production 2.Labor-Value Commodity Chains: Power and Class Relations in the World Economy 3.Flexibility and Systemic Rationalization: Control in Labor-Value Commodity Chains 4."We're Just a Seamstress": Case Studies of Two Indonesian Companies 5.The New Economic Imperialism: Looking through the Eyes of the Global South.
520			_aWinner of the 2018 Paul A. Baran—Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, Intan Suwandi’s Value Chains examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains—vast networks of people, tools, and activities needed to deliver goods and services to the market and controlled by multinationals—Suwandi 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. https://monthlyreview.org/product/value-chains/
650			_aDeveloping countries _9394755
650			_aCommerce _9394756
650			_aEconomic development _9394757
650			_aImperialism _9394758
650			_aInternational trade _9394759
650			_aLabor _9394760
650			_aLabor market _9394761
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