Part of the Comparative Work and Employment Relations series, Putting Labour in its Place is an edited collection, containing cutting-edge research and theoretical innovation on global value chains, the nature of work and labour process theory. It addresses the different processes around the world that each add value to the goods or services being produced; whilst also analysing the idea of labour itself and the exploitation surrounding it.
Key benefits:
- Written by leading international academics.
- A landmark text combining the growing interest in global value chains with labour process theory.
- Provides up-to-date critical analysis of global developments.
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.
