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Putting Labour in its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains: Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment

Editat de Kirsty Newsome, Philip Taylor, Jennifer Bair, Al Rainnie
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 apr 2015
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137410351
ISBN-10: 1137410353
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 3 figures, 7 black & white tables
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:2015
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Red Globe Press
Seria Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Provides critical analysis of global developments that will attract interest from HRM, Employment Relations, Organisational Studies as well as Development Studies, Economic Geography and International Relations

Notă biografică

Kirsty Newsome is Reader in Employment Relations at the University of Sheffield and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures at the University of Leicester, UK.Phil Taylor is Professor of Work and Employment Studies in the Department of Human Resource Management and also Vice Dean International in Strathclyde Business School at the University of Strathclyde, UK.Jennifer Bair is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.Al Rainnie is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Business School, University of Western Australia, Australia.

Cuprins

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.