Putting labour in its place : labour process analysis and global value chains /: labour process analysis and global value chains. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kirsty Newsome, Phil Taylor, Jennifer Bair and Al Rainnie.
• Editors: Newsome, Kirsty; Taylor, Philip, 1954-; Bair, Jennifer, 1973-; Rainnie, Al
• Contents: 1. Introduction - 'Putting Labour in its Place': The Labour Process and Global Value Chains; Phil Taylor, Kirsty Newsome, Al Rainnie, Jennifer Bair; Part I: INTEGRATING LABOUR PROCESS AND GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS; ; 2. Value in Motion: Labour, Logistics and the Contemporary Political Economy; Kirsty Newsome; ; 3. Labour and Asymmetric Power Relations in Global Value Chains: the Digital Entertainment Industries and Beyond; Paul Thompson, Rachel Parker and Stephen Cox; ; 4. Positioning labour in service value chains and networks – the case of parcel delivery; Bettina Haidinger and Jörg Flecker; ; 5. Labour and Segmentation in Value Chains; Nikolaus Hammer, Lone Riisgaard; ; 6. Articulation of Informal Labour: Interrogating the e-waste value chain in Singapore and Malaysia; Aidan Marc Wong; ; PART II: LABOUR - POWER, AGENCY, AND STANDARDS; ; 7. Labour as Object, Agent and Possibility of Globalization; Jennifer Bair and Marion Werner; ; 8. Understanding Labour's Agency under Globalisation: Embedding GPNs within An Open Political Economy; Andy Cumbers; ; 9. Social Downgrading and Worker Resistance in Apparel Global Value Chains; Mark Anner; ; 10. Labour and Global Production Networks; Mapping Variegated Landscapes of Agency; Neil Coe; ; PART III: SECTOR STUDIES; ; 11. We Will Not Willingly Be Enslaved – Grass Roots Organising in the Garment and Electrical Value Chains of Southern India; Jean Jenkins; ; 12. Human Security in Evolving Global Value Chains – reconsidering labour agency in a livelihoods context; Lee Pegler; ; 13. Crowdsourcing the Global Production of Mobile Apps: a Study of Apple; Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn and Debra Howcroft; ; 14. Wasted Labour? E-waste, GPNs and Work; Al Rainnie Andy Herod, Graham Pickren and Susan McGrath Champ; ; 15. Changing Landscapes of the Call Centre; Phil Taylor;
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (312 pages), (7 illustrations)
• Subjects: 331.1; Human Geography; Labor; Industrial management; Society & social sciences
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137410368; 1137410361
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