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Book Discussion: Reverse Subsidies in Global Monopsony Capitalism

This book provides a firm analytical base to discussions about injustice and the unequal distribution of gains from global production in the form of global monopsony capitalism. It utilizes the concept of reverse subsidies as the purchase of gendered labour and environmental services below their costs of production in garment value chains in India and other garment producing countries.

Join the Zolberg Institute in welcoming authors Dev Nathan and Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee to discuss these topics and their new book Reverse Subsidies in Global Monopsony Capitalism: Gender, Labour, and Environmental Injustice in Garment Value Chains.

April 14, 2022 – 10:00am EST

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Speakers

  • Dev Nathan, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi
  • Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Global Labour Justice
  • Nandita Shivakumar, Asia Floor Wage Alliance
  • William Milberg, Professor of Economics and Dean, New School for Social Research
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