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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches -- The interest of models, but which model? -- Going beyond value distribution -- Supporting transparency for more informed dialogue and negotiation -- Notes -- References -- seven Worker- and small farmer-led strategies to engage lead firms in responsible sourcing -- Introduction -- Who are the 'lead firms' in the case of bananas? -- A very short history of the process of empowerment of organised workers and farmers: consolidating a 'slave-free triangle'1 -- Moving up a gear: 1998 to 2005 -- Confronting retailers with challenging messages -- A permanent multi-stakeholder forum is born -- Navigating complexity as a prerequisite for influencing lead firms -- Innovative proposals from the ground up -- Putting gender equity at the heart of common action to transform the sector -- Conclusion -- Notes.

References -- eight Empowering local communities in their struggle for land and rights -- Palm oil and rubber: value unfairly distributed along the product chains -- In the face of powerlessness and isolation, collective organisation -- The impasse created by illusions -- The impasse created by blind anger -- The feeling of injustice as a cement for the foundations of the process -- The path to collective organisation -- Developing a repertoire of actions -- We are not alone: building a transnational alliance -- Relocating the fight -- Strengthening grassroots power: community organisation in remote areas -- Concrete progress that shows it is possible -- Increasing leverage to exert pressure -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion: Pondering the future of global value chains -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.

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