CAIT Member shortlisted for book award.
Workers, State and Development in Brazil: Powers of Labour, Chains of Value
Benjamin Selwyn's book, Workers, State and Development in Brazil: Powers of Labour, Chains of Value, has been shortlisted for the British International Studies Association’s 2013 International Political Economy Group (IPEG) book prize.
The book, based on fieldwork carried out during the 2000s, documents how labouring class struggles contributed to progressive human developmental outcomes for workers in an emerging region of export agriculture in north-east Brazil.
IPEG awards a book prize every year for a monograph published in the previous calendar year.
The group says: “The prize is the defining award in International Political Economy, and as such carries enormous prestige and profile well beyond the UK. There are two key reasons for this prestige: firstly, the nominations for the longlist and the voting for the shortlist are open and democratic processes, meaning that it is a highly impressive achievement for a book to make it to the shortlist; secondly, the four shortlisted books are read by the six judges, who – in an equally open and democratic manner – subsequently vote and deliberate on the winner.”
A panel of six judges is currently reading the four shortlisted books and will announce the winner in December 2013.