IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/20514_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The contest for value capture: labor as a claimant of value

In: The Contest for Value in Global Value Chains

Author

Listed:
  • .

Abstract

Chapter 5 presents the contest for value between Bangladesh's apparel labor and the manufacturers. Analyses of value creation and appropriation by Bangladesh labor, measured respectively by productivity and wages, show large and growing imbalance between the two. This finding is consistent with those of other studies on value capture by low-skills labor in global supply chains. We discuss reasons for the failure of markets to correct for this distorted distribution, and suggest that the absence of market mechanisms that would drive outcomes towards balanced distribution offer ground for government intervention. We outline policy measures - at the national and international levels - that hold the promise of improving value appropriation by labor and consider their shortcomings in instilling balanced value distribution.

Suggested Citation

  • ., 2021. "The contest for value capture: labor as a claimant of value," Chapters, in: The Contest for Value in Global Value Chains, chapter 5, pages 66-78, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20514_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781800882140.00012.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20514_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.