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Putting Labour in its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1 Putting Labour in its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains
Part I: Integrating Labour Process and Global Value Chains
2 Value in Motion: Labour and Logistics in the Contemporary Political Economy
3 Labour and Asymmetric Power Relations in Global Value Chains: The Digital Entertainment Industries and Beyond
4 Positioning Labour in Service Value Chains and Networks: The Case of Parcel Delivery
5 Labour and Segmentation in Value Chains
6 Articulation of Informal Labour: Interrogating the E-waste Value Chain in Singapore and Malaysia
Part II: Unpacking Labour: Power, Agency and Standards
7 Global Production and Uneven Development: When Bringing Labour in isnβt Enough
8 Understanding Labourβs Agency under Globalization: Embedding GPNs within an Open Political Economy
9 Social Downgrading and Worker Resistance in Apparel Global Value Chains
10 Labour and Global Production Networks: Mapping Variegated Landscapes of Agency
Part III: Sector Studies
11 The Significance of Grass-Roots Organizing in the Garment and Electrical Value Chains of Southern India
12 Human Security in Evolving Global Value Chains: Reconsidering Labour Agency in a Livelihoods Context
13 The Apple Ecosystem and App Developers: A GPN Analysis
14 Wasted Commodities, Wasted Labour? Global Production and Destruction Networks and the Nature of Contemporary Capitalism
15 Labour and the Changing Landscapes of the Call Centre
Author Index
Subject Index
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