MUST- Only use academic sources and the ones provided must be used.
– uploaded will be the powerpoint – only for guidelines not to use as a source.
-essay to be split into two sections in order to concise and narrow topic down – first Part – explaining major debates on GC chains, main actors, new marganalization, concentrated firms , when it became important and revelant, the role of labour and why it is important,
2nd Half-
choose a specific commodity chain and assessing it and analysing it from top to bottom.
Sources to use : (please add some other but academic only)
Jennifer Blair Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research
William I Robinson A Theory of Global Capitalism : Production Class and State in a Transnational world- Chapter 1 & 3
Ben Selwyn – Beyond Firm- Centrism; re-integrating labour and capitalism into global commodity chain analysis
Mike Davis – Planet of the Slums
Spatial Division of Labour A-Smith
