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Getting international labour rights right at a foreign controlled company in Malaysia: A Global Labour Network perspective
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In this paper, an analytical framework is proposed to explain and strategise labour empowerment and disempowerment in Global Production Networks. But, it is not sustainable if they are not integrated with and supported by national and global union networks that match the power of global corporate networks.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 18 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Labour power & Labour law.read more
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Governance in global value chains
John Humphrey,Hubert Schmitz +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and insights for researchers and policymakers alike.
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Global production networks, labour and development
Neil M. Coe,Martin Hess +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a small but growing body of research explores the connections between global production networks, labour and development, and the potential for worker agency within shifting global production network structures, asserting that such agency is shaped both by relations within production networks and territorial institutional systems.
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Dis/articulations and the interrogation of development in GPN research:
TL;DR: In this paper, the core concepts of the GPN approach, namely value, power, embeddedness, and development, are discussed, and the disarticulations perspective is used to examine the role of borders and discursive boundaries in structuring power relations.
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A Plantation Precariat: Fragmentation and Organizing Potential in the Palm Oil Global Production Network
TL;DR: This paper explored the fragmentation and precaritization of palm oil labour and discussed how workers react to different forms of precarity in pursuit of their own spatial strategies of social reproduction, and argued that this everyday practice of workers could become the basis for more political spatial organizing strategies within the palm oil global production network (GPN).
Introduction to Ravenswood: The Steelworkers’ Victory and the Revival of American Labor
Kate Bronfenbrenner,Tom Juravich +1 more
TL;DR: The Ravenswood Aluminum Company locked out seventeen hundred workers on October 31, 1990, and brought hundreds of replacement workers into a heavily fortified plant surrounded by barbed wire and security cameras.
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The governance of global value chains
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build a theoretical framework to explain governance patterns in global value chains and draw on three streams of literature, transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning, to identify three variables that play a large role in determining how global value chain are governed and change.
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Global production networks and the analysis of economic development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework for the analysis of economic integration and its relation to the asymmetries of economic and social development, which is more adequate to the exigencies and consequences of globalization than has traditionally been the case in development studies.
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Global production networks: realizing the potential
TL;DR: In this paper, the potential of one interpretive framework (the global production networks (GPN) perspective) for analysing the global economy and its impacts on territorial development is evaluated.
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Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward
TL;DR: The authors assesses the achievements and limitations of commodity chain research as it has evolved over the last decade and conclude that closer attention to the larger institutional and structural environments in which commodity chains are embedded is needed in order to more fully inform our understanding of the uneven social and developmental dynamics of contemporary capitalism at the global-local nexus.
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Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains And The Global Economy
Peter Gibbon,Stefano Ponte +1 more
TL;DR: The Age of Global Capitalism as mentioned in this paper, the New International Trade Regime, and the Global Value Chain Analysis 4. The ride of Buyer-driven Value Chains in Africa 5. Entry Barriers, Marginalisation and Upgrading 6. Standards, Quality Conventions and the Governance of Global Value Chains 7. TradingDown?