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Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism »

Authors: Gary Gereffi (Editor), Miguel Korzeniewicz (Editor), Miguel Korzeniewicz
ISBN-13: 9780275945732, ISBN-10: 0275945731
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: November 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

GARY GEREFFI is Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University.

MIGUEL KORZENIEWICZ is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico.

This book develops a new set of conceptual categories for analyzing new patterns of global economic organization.

	Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Global Commodity Chains	1
2	Commodity Chains in the Capitalist World-Economy Prior to 1800	17
2.1	Commodity Chains: Construct and Research	17
2.2	The Shipbuilding Commodity Chain, 1590-1790	20
2.3	The Grain Flour Commodity Chain, 1590-1790	34
2.4	Conclusions About Commodity Chains	48
3	Competition, Time, and Space in Industrial Change	51
4	The Global Distribution of Commodity Chains	67
5	The Organization of Buyer-Driven Global Commodity Chains: How U.S. Retailers Shape Overseas Production Networks	95
6	Where Is the Chain in Commodity Chains? The Service Sector Nexus	123
7	Institutionalizing Flexibility: A Comparative Analysis of Fordist and Post-Fordist Models of Third World Agro-Export Production	143
8	The New Spatial Division of Labor and Commodity Chains in the Greater South China Economic Region	165
9	Commodity Chains and Industrial Restructuring in the Pacific Rim: Garment Trade and Manufacturing	187
10	Strategic Reorientations of U.S. Apparel Firms	205
11	Automobile Commodity Chains in the NICs: A Comparison of South Korea, Mexico, and Brazil	223
12	Commodity Chains and Marketing Strategies: Nike and the Global Athletic Footwear Industry	247
13	Fresh Demand: The Consumption of Chilean Produce in the United States	267
14	Commodity Chains and the Korean Automobile Industry	281
15	Cocaine, Commodity Chains, and Drug Politics: A Transnational Approach	297
	Bibliography	317
	Index	321
	About the Contributors	331