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Author: Marion Werner (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.299kg
ISBN: 9781118941980
ISBN 10: 1118941985
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 04 December 2015
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
`In this moving and audacious book, Marion Werner challenges us to reckon with the real costs of global capitalism. Her inspiring stories of human struggles in Caribbean garment factories expose the tremendous courage needed to fight the odds and create more just futures.' - Melissa W. Wright, Professor of Geography and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA `Werner's important new ethnography of garment work in Haiti and the Dominican Republic not only updates our knowledge of global apparel production for a new era of disinvestment and more skilled production, but develops a new analytical framework to show how a history of coloniality and its production of racial and gender difference remains central to global manufacturing.' - Jane Collins, Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
At a time when empirical work is increasingly done as fast research or sidelined altogether, it is a pleasure to see what good monographs are capable of achieving Werner brilliantly demonstrates how the global factory works as a set of discourses and spatial imaginaries in addition to the mechanisms of capitalist accumulation Global Displacements offers provocative insights enabling the reader to look behind the veils of all-too-simplistic representations that promise economic development with the help of global factory and global value chain. - Christian Berndt, Economic Geography, Vol. 93 No. 2.
At a time when empirical work is increasingly done as fast research or sidelined altogether, it is a pleasure to see what good monographs are capable of achieving Werner brilliantly demonstrates how the global factory works as a set of discourses and spatial imaginaries in addition to the mechanisms of capitalist accumulation Global Displacements offers provocative insights enabling the reader to look behind the veils of all-too-simplistic representations that promise economic development with the help of global factory and global value chain. - Christian Berndt, Economic Geography, Vol. 93 No. 2.
Author Information
Marion Werner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her research lies at the intersection of critical development studies, feminist theory, and political economy with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.
