Volume 20, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2014

The Politcal Economy of Commodity Chains

• Editors Introduction: Commodity Chains in and of the World System

  Jennifer Bair

  1-10

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• Global Production Networks and International Inequality: Making a Case for a Meso-Level Turn in Macro-Comparative Sociology

  Mathew C. Mahutga

  11-37

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• Private Governance, Hegemonic Struggles, and Institutional Outcomes in the Transnational Cotton Commodity Chain

  Amy Quark

  38-63

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• Bringing Commodity Chain Analysis Back to Its World-Systems Roots: Rediscovering Womens Work and Households

  Wilma A. Dunaway

  64-81

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• The Core of the Apple: Degrees of Monopoly and Dark Value in Global Commodity Chains

  Donald A. Clelland

  82-111

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• Comparing Critical Capitalist Commodity Chains in the Early Twenty-first Century: Opportunities For and Constraints on Labor and Political Movements

  Elizabeth Sowers, Paul S. Ciccantell, David A. Smith

  112-139

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• Review of "The Endless Crisis," by John Bellamy Foster and Robert McChesney

  Vivek Chibber

  140-141

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• Review of "The Arc of War," by Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson

  Sinisa Malesevic

  141-144

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• Review of "Bilderberg People," by Ian Richardson, Andrew Kakabadse, and Nada Kakabadse

  William K. Carroll

  144-146

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• Review of "Methods for Quantitative Macro-Comparative Research," by Salvatore Babones

  Isabel Martinez

  146-149

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• Review of "Invisible Nature," by Kenneth Worthy

  Dan Auerbach

  149-152

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• Review of "Global Rivalries," by Amy Quark

  Stefano Ponte

  152-155

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• Review of "The Economic War Against Cuba," by Salman Lamrani

  Paolo Spadoni

  155-157

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