Collaborative Capitalism in American Cities
Reforming Urban Market Regulations

Develops a theory of collaborative capitalism that produces economic stability for businesses and workers in American urban cores.

Rashmi Dyal-Chand (Author)

9781107589995, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 August 2019

293 pages
22.9 x 15 x 1.5 cm, 0.4 kg

'Focusing on the tricky challenges of inner-city economic regeneration, this account offers a fresh perspective, both theoretically and methodologically, from which to understand how pragmatic practices of collaboration and sharing can deliver economic stability, capitalist growth and inclusion.' Lorna Fox O'Mahony, University of Essex

In many American cities, the urban cores still suffer. Poverty and unemployment remain endemic, despite policy initiatives aimed at systemic solutions. Rashmi Dyal-Chand's research has focused on how businesses in some urban cores are succeeding despite the challenges. Using three examples of urban collaborative capitalism, this book extrapolates a set of lessons about sharing. It argues that sharing can fuel business development and growth. Sharing among businesses can be critical for their economic survival. Sharing can also produce a particularly stable form of economic growth by giving economic stability to employees. As the examples in this book show, sharing can allow American businesses to remain competitive while returning more wealth to their workers, and this more collaborative approach can help solve the problems of urban underdevelopment and poverty.

1. Introduction
Part I. Collaborative Capitalism Defined: 2. Home care in the Bronx and Philadelphia
3. Capitalist sharing and economic stability
Part II. Collaborative Capitalism Explored: 4. Rehabilitating South Shore
5. Regulating against sharing
6. More than a day's work in Austin
7. Understanding collaborative capitalism
Part III. Collaborative Capitalism Reinvigorated: 8. Collaborative capitalism refined: the 'sharing economy'
9. Regulating for sharing
10. Reforming laws to support collaborative capitalism.

Subject Areas: Employment & labour law [LNH], International organisations & institutions [LBBU], International economic & trade law [LBBM], International law [LB], Law [L]