Review and positions: Global production networks and labour

Commodity chains that are global in extent have increasingly come to be seen as the defining element of the contemporary globalized world economy. Since the 1990s a body of theory - evolving from global commodity chain analysis to global value chain analysis to global production network analysis - h...

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Main Authors: Rainnie, Alistair, Herod, A., McGrath-Champ, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: University of Hertfordshire Business School and W.S. Maney &Son Ltd 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49481
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Herod, A.
McGrath-Champ, S.
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description Commodity chains that are global in extent have increasingly come to be seen as the defining element of the contemporary globalized world economy. Since the 1990s a body of theory - evolving from global commodity chain analysis to global value chain analysis to global production network analysis - has focused upon understanding how such commodity chains function. However, despite providing many important insights, these bodies of literature have generally suffered from a major deficiency in that they have failed to consider labour as an active agent capable of shaping such chains’ structure and geographical organization. Here, then, we present a case for locating more centrally labour, in production network analysis.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-494812017-03-15T22:56:20Z Review and positions: Global production networks and labour Rainnie, Alistair Herod, A. McGrath-Champ, S. labour process Global production networks commodity chains labour value chains Commodity chains that are global in extent have increasingly come to be seen as the defining element of the contemporary globalized world economy. Since the 1990s a body of theory - evolving from global commodity chain analysis to global value chain analysis to global production network analysis - has focused upon understanding how such commodity chains function. However, despite providing many important insights, these bodies of literature have generally suffered from a major deficiency in that they have failed to consider labour as an active agent capable of shaping such chains’ structure and geographical organization. Here, then, we present a case for locating more centrally labour, in production network analysis. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49481 University of Hertfordshire Business School and W.S. Maney &Son Ltd restricted
spellingShingle labour process
Global production networks
commodity chains
labour
value chains
Rainnie, Alistair
Herod, A.
McGrath-Champ, S.
Review and positions: Global production networks and labour
title Review and positions: Global production networks and labour
title_full Review and positions: Global production networks and labour
title_fullStr Review and positions: Global production networks and labour
title_full_unstemmed Review and positions: Global production networks and labour
title_short Review and positions: Global production networks and labour
title_sort review and positions: global production networks and labour
topic labour process
Global production networks
commodity chains
labour
value chains
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49481