The focus of this paper is twofold: first, to sketch an analytical framework that may be helpful in underpinning the key conceptual correlates of contemporary Global Value Systems (GVSs), while flagging, very briefly, its historical antecedents and tracking it to its current juncture; second, to...

Section I: Conceptualizing Labour Questions in the Global South -- Chapter 1: Labour questions in the Global South -- Chapter 2: The Concept of ‘Working People’ -- Chapter 3: The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour -- Chapter 4: Rent and Surplus in the Global Production Network: Identifying...

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium framework with firm heterogeneity and monopsonistic labour markets, for quantification of the impact of trade and FDI liberalisation episodes. Firms make standard extensive margin investment choices into exporting and multinational statuses. The labour...