5. The Comparative Advantages of Tropical Commodity Chain Analysis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. The Authors ix
5. 1. Global Commodity Chains: Genealogy and Review 1
6. Part I. Operationalizing Global Chains: Theoretical and Methodological Debates
7. 2. Historicizing Commodity Chains: Five Hundred Years of the Global Coffee Commodity Chain 37
8. 3. Trading Up the Commodity Chain? The Impact of Extractive and Labor-Intensive Manufacturing Trade on World-System Inequalities 63
9. 4. Protection Networks and Commodity Chains in the Capitalist World-Economy 83
10. Part II. Getting at Governance: Power and Coordination in Global Chains
11. 5. The Comparative Advantages of Tropical Commodity Chain Analysis 93
12. 6. From Commodity Chains to Value Chains. Interdisciplinary Theory Building in an Age of Globalization 110
13. 7. Global Commodity Chains, Market Makers, and the Rise of Demand-Responsive Economies 136
14. Part III. Workers and Activists in Global Chains
15. 8. Mimicking “Lean” in Global Value Chains: It’s the Workers Who Get Leaned on 165
16. 9. Unveiling the Unveiling: Commodity Chains, Commodity Fetishism, and the “Value” of Voluntary, Ethical Food Labels 190
17. 10. Chain (Re)actions: Comparing Activist Mobilization Against Biotechnology in Britain and the United States 207
18. Notes 231
19. References 239
20. Index 269