Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age

by Ashok Kumar

This book explores the combination of capital's changing composition and labour's subjective agency to examine whether the waning days of the 'sweatshop' have indeed begun. Focused on the garment and footwear sectors, it introduces a universal logic that governs competition and reshapes the chain. By analysing workers' collective action at various sites of production, it observes how this internal logic plays out for labour who are testing the limits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110873197X
• ISBN13: 9781108731973
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 8.7"