Wasted commodities, wasted labour? Global production and destruction networks and the nature of contemporary capitalism
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2015
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Rainnie, A.
Herod, A.
McGrath Champ, S.
Pickren, G.
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Newsome, K.
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Source details - Title: Putting Labour in Its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains, 2015 / Newsome, K. (ed./s), Ch.14, pp.249-265
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This book is evidence of a growing interest in the question of labour in value chains and production networks. However, whilst such interest is welcome it is unfortunate that efforts to more centrally locate labour in analyses of value chains and production networks have tended to focus almost exclusively upon processes of commodity assembly. Little attention has been given to what happens to commodities after their disposalat what are typically seen to be the ends of their lives. This is particularly regrettable because there has been a growing appreciation in other scholarly literatures of the ‘ongoingness’ of commodities’ economic lives beyond their points of initial consumption, that is to say once they have been disposed of as ‘waste’.
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Copyright 2015 Selection and editorial matter, Kirsty Newsome, Phil Taylor, Jennifer Bair and Al Rainnie; individual chapters; contributors