Value Struggles

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 (Zed, 2005, with Benoit Daviron); Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy (2005, with Peter Gibbon); Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World (2011, with Lisa Ann Richey); and Business, Power, and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains (Zed, 2019).

• List of TablesList of FiguresList of ImagesList of AcronymsPrefacePART I VALUE(S) AND VALUATIONChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Value Chains and Chains of ValuesChapter 3: The Global, South African and Italian Value Chains for WinePART II THREE SITES OF VALUE STRUGGLEChapter 4: PlaceChapter 5: NatureChapter 6: People (Class, Race and Gender)Chapter 7: Looking at Capitalism Through the Wine GlassAppendix TablesNotesReferencesIndex

Value Struggles is a brilliant account of the ways in which tensions over the valorization of places, nature, and people intersect with power in the wine industry. Illustrated with examples from South Africa and Italy, Stefano Ponte’s careful research uncovers the myriad ways in which capitalism’s contradictions are reflected in a glass of wine.