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SUMMARY:Seminar by Ben Selwyn (Sussex)\, "Capitalist Value Chains: Labour
  Exploitation\, Nature Destruction\, Geopolitics"
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Nov 5th for a book launch of Prof Ben Selwy
 n's book (co-authored with Christin Bernhold) Capitalist Value Chains: L
 abour Exploitation\, Nature Destruction\, Geopolitics (OUP\, 2025). \n\n
 We will be in Sam Alex_A102 from 2-3:30pm. Ben will introduce the book a
 nd then we will have short comments from Perla Polanco Leal (UofM Politi
 cs) and Pritish Behuria (UofM GDI) as discussants. Then there will be ti
 me for Q&A and discussion.\n\n \nBenjamin Selwyn is Professor of Interna
 tional Relations and International Development\, Department of Internati
 onal Relations\, University of Sussex. He researches\, writes\, and teac
 hes about international political economy and development from the vanta
 ge point of value chains\, food and agriculture\, and labour. His previo
 us books include The Struggle for Development (2017).\n\n \nIs it true t
 hat Global Value Chains (GVCs) 'boost incomes\, create better jobs\, and
  reduce poverty'\, as commonly claimed? In this compelling book\, Selwyn
  and Bernhold show how the mainstream notion of GVCs obscures their capi
 talist character. To transcend this shortcoming\, the authors introduce 
 the concept of Capitalist Value Chains (CVCs). They explore how and why 
 CVCs generate many highly exploitative jobs\, new forms of poverty\, are
  stunting real human development\, and are destroying the world's enviro
 nment. CVCs are a historically-specific configuration of capitalist clas
 s relations that have been restructured and bolstered through geopolitic
 s. The authors argue that rather than waiting for the elusive benefits o
 f 'economic\, social\, and environmental upgrading' as promoted in mains
 tream GVC scholarship\, workers' collective actions can improve their pa
 y and conditions-under historically and geographically specific conditio
 ns of uneven development. The authors clearly explain how\, instead of s
 triving to make CVCs more 'resilient'\, progressive political economists
  need to envision a world beyond these capitalist relations of generaliz
 ed exploitation and appropriation.\n
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