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For thirty years, the British economy has repeated the same old experiment of subjecting everything to competition and market because that is what works in the imagination of central government. This book demonstrates the repeated failure of that experiment by detailed examination of three sectors: broadband, food supply and retail banking. The book argues for a new experiment in social licensing whereby the right to trade in foundational activities would be dependent on the discharge of social obligations in the form of sourcing, training and living wages.Written by a team of researchers and policy advocates based at the Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change, this book combines rigour and readability, and will be relevant to practitioners, policy makers, academics and engaged citizens.
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This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing – contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the 2012 Olympics? In a word: outsourcing. This book, by the renowned research team at the Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change in Manchester, is the first to combine ‘follow the money’ research with accessibility for the engaged citizen, and the first to balance critique with practical suggestions for policy reform.
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This is the first ever book to analyse outsourcing – contracting out public services to private business interests. It is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy, and it has happened quietly, but it is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and is simultaneously enriching a new business elite and creating numerous fiascos in the delivery of public services. What links the brutal treatment of asylum-seeking detainees, the disciplining of welfare benefit claimants, the profits effortlessly earned by the privatised rail companies, and the fiasco of the management of security at the 2012 Olympics? In a word: outsourcing. This book, by the renowned research team at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change in Manchester, is the first to combine ‘follow the money’ research with accessibility for the engaged citizen, and the first to balance critique with practical suggestions for policy reform.
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Industrializing Food Systems in Africa
Power, Concentration, and Inclusion in Food Value Chains in South Africa and Tanzania
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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Field-leading experts Andrew Bowman, Hazel Gray, and Reena Das Nair offer an empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated, open access political-economic analysis of how states across Africa are responding to rapidly industrializing food systems while balancing job creation, economic inclusion, nutrition, climate change, and environmental sustainability priorities.Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews with firm owners in South Africa and Tanzania, the authors provide narrative insights into firm histories, value chain relations, and policy contestations, bringing theoretical debates to life through the stories of firm owners and their struggles to survive and thrive. What emerges is a much-needed insight into the into policy effectiveness in the mid-section of food value chains, where the state can promote capability-upgrading in small firms in order to deliver on their multiple, overlapping, and sometimes competing policy priorities around justice and sustainability. At the same time, the book's findings counter universalizing narratives about economic development in Africa by highlighting the very different development trajectories different states are taking in response to the ever-increasing demand for processed food. All of this appears in sharp relief through the theoretically innovative lens that eschews macroeconomic analysis in order to emphasize the political economy drivers of demand and consumption.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.