Value Struggles, 9781350378629
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Wine reveals capitalism’s hidden inequalities, place, nature, people exploited.
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Value Struggles

looking at capitalism through the wine glass

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    12 November 2025

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Summary

Value Struggles: Uncorking the Contradictions of Global Capitalism in the Wine Industry

In this open access book, Stefano Ponte offers a theoretically ambitious, empirically rich interrogation of the value struggles at play in global value chains; using the wine industry as an exemplar, he provides a new and fundamental critique of contemporary capitalism and the inequalities it engenders.

There is no better product than wine to unmask some of the contradict…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781350378629
ISBN-10:1350378623
Author:Stefano Ponte
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:12 November 2025
Weight:454g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm
About The Author

Stefano Ponte

Stefano Ponte is Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, as well as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Centre for Competition, Regulation, and Economic Development at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His previous books include The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development (with Benoit Daviron); Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy (with Peter Gibbon); Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World (with Lisa Ann Richey); and Business, Power, and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains.

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