Global commodity chains and labor relations

Global commodity chains and labor relations / edited by Andrea Komlosy and Goran Musić.

"This edited volume provides a collection of historical and contemporary commodity chain studies by placing labor at the centre of analysis. A global historical perspective demonstrates that splitting production processes to different, hierarchically connected locations are by no means new phen...

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Other Authors: Komlosy, Andrea (Editor), Musić, Goran, 1981- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:Studies in global social history ; v. 42.
Subjects:
Labor.
Production control.
Business logistics.
International business enterprises.
labor.
Business logistics
International business enterprises
Labor
Production control
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Table of Contents:
  • Chains of labor : connecting global labor history and the commodity chain paradigm
  • Part 1. Theorizing commodity chains, labor relations and upgrading. Cycles of global expansion and contraction : global commodity chains and labor relations in textiles and garments from the 17th to the 21st century
  • Soy expansions : China, the USA and Brazil in comparison
  • Who's upgrading? Class differentiation and labor relations in Argentinian agribusiness
  • Part 2. Commodity chains and proto-industrialization in Early Modern Central Europe. Grain, flour, beer, and liquor : commodity chains, labor relations and economic development in Habsburg Galicia, 1772-1918
  • Global commodity chains and labor relations in the distribution of Central European copper in the eighteenth century
  • Part 3. Commodity chains in (post-)colonial settings. Labor as a bottleneck : entangled commodity chains of sugar in Hawaii and California in the late nineteenth century
  • Coolie labor, tea planters, and transport in Colonial India
  • Analyzing structural change and labor relations in global commodity chains : the Ethiopian leather industry
  • Part 4. Production chains in (post-)socialist Eastern Europe. Outward processing production and the Yugoslav self-managed textile industry in the 1980s
  • Uneven development in the European automotive industry : labor fragmentation and value-added production in the Hungarian semi-periphery
  • Part 5. Trade union networks, NGO campaigns, workers' agency. Transnational solidarity networks between workers and global production networks
  • Corporate social responsibility in the global cocoa chocolate chain : insights from sustainability certification in Ghana's cocoa communities
  • On the (re)production of informal work in Argentina's auto industry
  • Part 6. Conclusion. Global labor and labor studies - breaking the chains.

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