UID:
almahu_9949465356102882
Format:
1 online resource (328 pages)
ISBN:
9781788213639
Series Statement:
Economic Transformations
Content:
The book considers a range of conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production relating to issues of scale, informality, race, social reproduction, the labour process and migration as well as in relation to methods, theory and research practice.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: labour regimes and global production -- Labour regimes and global production: intellectual contexts -- Labour regimes: historical evolution of a concept -- Phase 1: the workplace in national context -- Phase 2: inserting the local/regional scale -- Phase 3: labour regimes and global production -- Synopsis -- The structure of the book -- References -- Part I - Antecedents -- 2 Gendered labour regimes in global production -- Introduction -- Gender and the construction of cheapness: feminists analyse the NIDL -- Articulations of gender and capital in global capitalism: feminist GVC analysis -- Gendered governance: codes of conduct, contracting and "structural blending" in GVCs -- Upgrading gender: restructuring and the revaluation of feminized labour -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Grounding labour regime analysis in agrarian political economy -- Introduction -- India: the modes of production debate, the Green Revolution and their relevance for labour regimes analysis -- Africa: articulation of modes of production, the peasantry and contract farming -- Looking back, today -- References -- 4 Modalities of labour: Restructuring, regulation, regime -- Introduction -- Factories -- Fixes -- Conclusion: regime change -- References -- Part II - Theoretical and Methodological Developments -- 5 Exploitation and labour regimes: Production, circulation, social reproduction, ecology -- Introduction: why labour regimes? -- Exploitation through labour regimes: production, circulation, social reproduction, ecology -- Labour regime analysis as a method of enquiry -- Connecting the dots: labour regime analysis in practice -- Production -- Circulation -- Social reproduction -- Ecology -- Conclusion -- References.
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6 Doing labour regime research with large-scale surveys in Africa -- Introduction: questions, framing and methodological implications -- Accounting for research design and process: a case for mixed methods -- A sequential mixed-methods approach: why? -- Comparative framework in practice: variation and comparability -- Sampling and negotiating access: why would you choose the workers? -- The politics of fieldwork in workers' surveys -- Conclusions -- References -- 7 Labour regimes and embodied labour -- Introduction -- Labour process and the politics of production -- Labour exchange and the politics of circulation -- Labour motivation and the politics of representations -- Social reproductive labour and the politics of consumption -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 The continent of labour and uneven development: The making of transnational labour regimes in east Asia -- Introduction -- East Asian integration and the myth of harmonious regional development -- The uneven development of the continent of labour -- The making of TLRs in east Asia -- TLRs and peripheral industrialization in east Asia -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Uneven despotization: Labour regimes in glocal production -- Introduction -- Factory regimes and the political labour process -- Spatializing and feminizing Burawoy -- Rescaling despotic labour regimes -- Ongoing transnational restructuring and competitive comparison -- The new despotism -- Uneven despotization -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Labour regimes, social reproduction and boundary-drawing strategies across the arc of US world hegemony -- Introduction -- Linking the hidden abodes of production and reproduction -- Boundary-drawing, social reproduction and labour regimes across world capitalist space -- Boundary-drawing, social reproduction and labour regimes across world capitalist time.
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Seeing the contemporary crisis of labour in world-historical perspective -- References -- Part III - Doing Labour Regime Analysis -- 11 National labour control regimes and worker resistance in global production networks -- Introduction -- Labour control and worker resistance in global production networks -- Worker resistance -- Labour control regimes and apparel global production network restructuring -- Authoritarian state labour control and wildcat strikes: Vietnam -- Despotic market labour control and international accords: Bangladesh -- Repressive employer labour control and cross-border solidarity: Honduras -- Conclusion -- References -- 12 Transnational private regulation and labour regimes in Indonesia and China -- Introduction -- Theoretical concerns: intersections of transnational private regulation and labour regimes -- The emerging world of transnational private regulation -- Labour regimes in global production networks -- Intersections -- Transnational private regulation and labour regimes in China and Indonesia -- China's dormitory labour regime -- Looking ahead: evolving labour regimes in China -- Indonesia's precarious protection labour regime -- Looking ahead: evolving labour regimes in Indonesia -- Conclusion: a dynamic interface -- References -- 13 International civil society organizations and the temporalities of labour regimes: A case study from the Bangladeshi apparel industry -- Introduction -- Labour regimes and international civil society organizations -- Research context -- pre-Rana-Plaza apparel labour regimes in Bangladesh: intersections of the state, manufacturers and labour -- Bangladeshi apparel labour regimes in the post-Rana-Plaza context: interventions by international civil society organizations -- ICSO interventions in regulating labour governance -- ICSO interventions in facilitating trade unionism.
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The ambiguous legacy of ICSOs -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 Labour regimes and trade-based integration -- Introduction -- Trade and labour regimes: reorganizing work at expanded scale -- Trade integration and GPNs in South Korea and Moldova -- The EU-South Korea FTA and automobiles -- The EU-Moldova Association Agreement and clothing -- Comparing trade-based integration and labour regimes in Moldova and South Korea -- Geopolitical/geo-economic contexts of the labour regimes -- National political economy of multi-scalar labour regimes -- Articulations of trade agreements, production networks and labour regimes -- South Korean automotive labour regimes and the reconfiguration of the auto industry after EUKOR -- Moldovan clothing labour regimes and the EU Association Agreement -- Conclusions -- References -- 15 The world is a warehouse: Racialized labour regimes and the rise of Amazon's global logistics empire -- Introduction -- Racial capitalism and global racialized labour regimes -- Racialized hierarchies and Amazon's global corporate structure -- Amazon's disposable warehouse workers -- The racialization of Amazon's contingent and subcontracted last mile delivery sector -- Conclusion -- References -- 16 The dormitory regime revisited: Time in transnational capitalist production -- Introduction -- The gendered time politics of transnational production -- Just-in-time transnational labour markets -- Discursive construction of imaginary futures -- Conclusion -- References -- 17 "Just-in-time" migrant workers in Czechia: Racialization and dormitory labour regimes -- Introduction -- Constitutive diversity: socially differentiated labour -- Temporal imperatives of the electronics sector and the composition of labour at Foxconn -- (Re)producing just-in-time workers -- Dormitories as infrastructures of racialization -- Conclusion -- References.
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18 Conclusion: Mapping a research agenda for labour regime analysis -- Introduction -- Global production and the structures of capital -- Colonial legacies, racialization and the production of difference in labour regimes -- Reproduction, the household and petty commodity producers -- Ecological relations and environmental change in labour regimes -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Baglioni, Elena Labour Regimes and Global Production Newcastle Upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing,c2022 ISBN 9781788213615
Language:
English
Keywords:
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