Commodity chains and global capitalism

Praeger

1994

334 p.

Contributions in economics and economic history

9780275945732

Introduction : global commodity chains / Gary Gereffi, Miguel Korzeniewicz, and Roberto P. Korzeniewicz. Commodity chains : construct and research / Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein. The shipbuilding commodity chain, 1590-1790 / Eyüp Özveren. The grain flour commodity chain, 1590-1790 / Sheila Pelizzon. Conclusions about commodity chains / Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein. Competition, time, and space in industrial change / Erica Schoenberger. The global distribution of commodity chains / Roberto P. Korzeniewicz and William Martin. The organization of buyer-driven global commodity chains : how U.S. retailers shape overseas production networks / Gary Gereffi. Where is the chain in commodity chains? : the service sector nexus / Eileen Rabach and Eun Mee Kim. Institutionalizing flexibility : a comparative analysis of Fordist and post-Fordist models of Third World agro-export production / Laura T. Raynolds. The new spatial division of labor and commodity chains in the greater South China economic region / Xiangming Chen. Commodity chains and industrial restructuring in the Pacific Rim : garment trade and manufacturing / Richard P. Appelbaum, David Smith, and Brad Christerson. Strategic reorientations of U.S. apparel firms / Ian M. Taplin. Automobile commodity chains in the NICs : a comparison of South Korea, Mexico, and Brazil / Naeyoung Lee and Jeffrey Cason. Commodity chains and marketing strategies : Nike and the global athletic footwear industry / Miguel Korzeniewicz. Fresh demand : the consumption of Chilean produce in the United States / Walter L. Goldfrank. Commodity chains and the Korean automobile industry / Hyung Kook Kim and Su-Hoon Lee. Cocaine, commodity chains, and drug politics : a transnational approach / Suzanne Wilson and Marta Zambrano.

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