This contribution argues that international organizations such as the World Bank are often overlooked in studies of global value chains, even though they can fundamentally influence value chains in the food economy. One of the ways in which the World Bank for instance impacts on such value...

Introduction : poverty reduction through land transfers -- Pro-poor reforms : the propertizing paradigm -- Pro-poor land reform in Eurasia -- The reform continuum : from China to Russia -- Smallholders : a fieldwork study of resilience and resistance -- Resilience : survival and growth of...

The author uses ethnographic fieldwork to examine what forms of disruption trade unions use in resisting asset-strippers at four factories in the metal sector of post-Communist Romania and Ukraine. He shows how understanding disruption as differentiating among various targets and protest...