Summary The Global Value Chains (GVC) literature intervenes in today's challenging
development context by focusing on the means by which developing-country industries can …

Accelerating processes of economic globalization have fundamentally reshaped the
organization of the global economy towards much greater integration and functional …

Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and environmental degradation in
global industries, leading many large retailers and brands to adopt standards for fairness …

The phrase “fast fashion” refers to low-cost clothing collections that mimic current luxury
fashion trends. Fast fashion helps sate deeply held desires among young consumers in the …

As social movements co-evolve with changes in states and markets, it is crucial to examine
how they make particular kinds of actors into focal points for the expression of grievances …

This paper assesses the achievements and limitations of commodity chain research as it has
evolved over the last decade. The primary objectives are two-fold. First, I highlight an …

The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has generated a fundamental re-
evaluation of the free-market policies that have dominated American politics for three …

The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt
in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narrative that illuminates the globalization …

This paper contributes to the global production networks (GPNs) literature by analyzing the
relationship between economic upgrading (increase in the value added of production) and …

World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students
and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach …