The Struggle for Development
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2017
Summary
The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world’s population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist development? What can be done to overcome this destructive dynamic?
In this hard-hitting analysis Benjamin Selwyn shows how capitalism generates widespread poverty, gender discrimination and environmental destruction. He debunks the World Bank’s dollar-a-day methodology for calculating po…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509512799 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1509512799 |
| Author: | Benjamin Selwyn |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 137mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
“The Struggle for Development is a compelling inversion of development from the perspective of labour relations and struggles. Combining parsimony with verve, Ben Selwyn offers a didactic account of global labour conditions, movements and future possibilities, laying out a comprehensive alternative development agenda.” Philip McMichael, Cornell University “In this trenchant analysis, Selwyn goes beyond a critique of the existing patterns of global accumulation and the poverty chains they generate to provide an optimistic argument of how labour struggles can generate genuinely democratic development. This is an important contribution re-envisioning social and economic progress for our times.” Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
About The Author
Benjamin Selwyn
Benjamin Selwyn is Professor of International Relations and International Development at the University of Sussex.
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