1st Edition

Co-produced Economies Capital, Collaboration, Competition

By Ray Hudson Copyright 2019
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

In common with most other advanced capitalist economies of the Global North, the UK has experienced a decline in the manufacturing industry and an increase in the service sector in recent decades. At the same time, there has been a substantial manufacturing growth in a number of countries in the Global South, especially China and India. Why have these changes occurred? What have been their... Read more

1. Setting the scene: conceptualising capitalist economies as co-produced. 2. Making co-production possible: from state regulation to informal institutions, conventions and habits. 3. Enabling co-production: managing relations between capital and labour. 4. Competition among co-producing firms: varying forms of competitive strategy. 5. Collaboration among firms: collaborating and co-producing with some in order to compete with others. 6. People collaborating and competing for waged work in the co-producing economy. 7. Engaging consumers in the co-production of commodities. 8. Capital and nature: from relations of domination to active co-production. 9. Co-producing sustainable economies or the end of capitalism as we knew it?

Biography

Ray Hudson is a political-economic geographer at Durham University, UK, where he has been a Professor since 1990. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Academy of the Social Sciences, the Royal Geographical Society and the Regional Studies Association as well as a member of Academia Europaea.

"This book makes a new and important contribution to our theoretical understanding of social economy. Researchers, educators and policy makers committed to building co-operative, mutual and social enterprises will find this a valuable addition to their library.", Dr Rory Ridley-Duff, Reader in Co-operative and Social Enterprise, Sheffield Hallam University