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Global Commodity Chains & World Income Inequalities: The Missing Link of Inequality and the “Upgrading” Paradox

Journal of World-Systems Research

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Title Global Commodity Chains & World Income Inequalities: The Missing Link of Inequality and the Upgrading Paradox
 
Creator Brewer, Benjamin D.
 
Description This article links key findings from two major research literatures within contemporary development and globalization studies: global commodity/value chains, and world income inequalities. Forging this missing link exposes what I call the upgrading paradox within commodity and value chain analysis. The paradox hinges on the disconnect between the global commodity/value chain literatures focus on the potential for firms and nations to upgrade their position within chains and the roots of the global commodity chain construct in world-systems analysis, a theoretical framework that rejects the potential for widespread and generalizable developmental progress. Findings from the world income inequalities literature do indeed confirm the paradoxical nature of the upgrading discourse, so I conclude by discussing two potential paths for a post-paradox commodity chain analysis.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
Date 2011-08-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/423
10.5195/jwsr.2011.423
 
Source Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 17, Issue 2, 2011; 308-327
1076-156X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/423/435
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2015 Benjamin D. Brewer
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