Supply Chain Management
Activist Capitalism and Supply-Chain Citizenship: Producing Ethical Regimes and Ready-toWear Clothes: with CA comment by Bená Burda Author(s): Damani James Partridge Reviewed work(s): Source: Current Anthropology, Vol. 52, No. S3, Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form: Edited by Damani J. Partridge, Marina Welker, and Rebecca Hardin (Supplement to April 2011), pp. S97-S111 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/657256 . Accessed: 05/02/2013 18:17
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Activist Capitalism and Supply-Chain Citizenship
Producing Ethical Regimes and Ready-to-Wear Clothes by Damani James Partridge
In this article I examine the new forms of citizenship that have resulted from the connections between the emergence of new corporate ethics (including fair trade) and outsourcing. The process I call “supply-chain citizenship” is based on a collection of long-distance promises of care that are economically and politically backed by transnational corporations. I
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Current Anthropology Volume 52, Supplement 3, April 2011
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Activist Capitalism and Supply-Chain Citizenship
Producing Ethical Regimes and Ready-to-Wear Clothes by Damani James Partridge
In this article I examine the new forms of citizenship that have resulted from the connections between the emergence of new corporate ethics (including fair trade) and outsourcing. The process I call “supply-chain citizenship” is based on a collection of long-distance promises of care that are economically and politically backed by transnational corporations. I
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