Questions about the Commodity Chains poster

What’s on the Commodity Chains poster?

5 numbered steps. Follow one good from raw material to shelf, and watch where margin sits. Extraction — Raw material produced where cost is lowest and regulation weakest.; Processing — Often in a middle-income country, on thin and contested margins.; Assembly — Labour-intensive, mobile, and the first stage to relocate on cost.; Branding and design — Held in the lead firm's home country; captures most of the value.; Retail and after-sale — Close to the consumer, controlling access to the final market.. Gereffi's smile curve: value is high at the design and branding ends and lowest in the middle, at assembly.

Who is the Commodity Chains poster for?

Commodity Chains belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning globalisation can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Commodity Chains poster?

When asking where the money in a product actually ends up. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Commodity Chains belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Commodity Chains?

Risk Society, Culture: Flat or Plural and What Globalisation Means sit alongside Commodity Chains in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Risk SocietyCulture: Flat or PluralWhat Globalisation Means

Is the Commodity Chains poster free to download and print?

Yes. Commodity Chains downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Commodity Chains poster print at?

Commodity Chains is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Commodity Chains loses nothing.Printing guide