Rethinking Value Chains : Tackling the Challenges of Global Capitalism

Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches.

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A creative approach to regulation in a neoliberal policy environment -- The Transparency in Supply Chains clause in the Modern Slavery Act 2015 -- Monitoring and enforcement: the missing pieces -- From reporting to acting: mandatory HRDD and parent company liability -- Alignment across Europe, without Europe? -- Note -- References -- six Assessing the economic, social and environmental impacts of global value chains as a tool for change -- Introduction -- Information for citizen action: the background -- Mining data or data minefields? The missing information on value chains

Making the TSD chapters subject to the same dispute settlement as other parts of the agreement -- Addressing enforcement -- Addressing the negative distributional effects of trade within FTAs -- Preferential access: the Generalized System of Preferences regime -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Part II Strengthening the role of people and democracy -- five Civil society action towards judiciary changes in the regulation of global value chains -- Introduction -- CORE: a civil society coalition pushing for corporate responsibility

Empirical insights from the coffee and biofuels GVCs -- Coffee -- Bargaining power -- Demonstrative power -- Institutional power -- Constitutive power -- Orchestration -- Biofuels -- Bargaining power -- Demonstrative power -- Institutional power -- Constitutive power -- Orchestration -- Conclusion -- References -- four Trade policy for fairer and more equitable global value chains -- Introduction -- Setting the context -- Bilateral agreement: FTAs -- Making the entering into force of an agreement conditional on ratification and application of a list of conventions

Towards deglobalisation and new economic nationalism? -- Notes -- References -- two Global inequality chains: how global value chains and wealth chains (re)produce inequalities of wealth -- Introduction -- The structure of GVCs and value capture -- GVC upgrading and the 'smile curve' -- Global wealth chains -- The global inequality chain -- Conclusions and ways forward -- Note -- References -- three Orchestrating environmental sustainability in a world of global value chains -- Introduction -- Orchestration for sustainability -- Governance and power in GVCs

Front Cover -- Rethinking Value Chains: Tackling the Challenges of Global Capitalism -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rethinking value chains in times of crisis -- Notes -- References -- Part I Mounting issues in the governance of global value chains -- one Global production networks: the state, power and politics -- Introduction -- Reconsidering state roles in GPNs -- GPNs and the integral state -- 'States of discipline': GPNs, the integral state and labour control

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EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This original volume brings together academics and activists from Europe to think creatively about the social and environmental imbalances of global production and how to reform the current economic system.

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