Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of concepts and studies of labour control and labour agency
- Introduces a novel analytical approach for labour control and labour agency in global value chains and GPNs
- Provides a unique analysis of agency strategies for local unions in the global garment production network
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Economic Geography (ECOGEO)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Research Design and Methodology
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Introduction of Empirical Case
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About this book
This book puts Indian garment workers and their organisations at the centre of the analysis. Taking the Bangalore export-garment cluster as a case study, the book explores the conditions that enable but also constrain the capacities of garment workers’ unions to build collective power vis-à-vis employers and thereby improve their conditions. Drawing on theoretical concepts from labour geography, relational economic geography, and Global Production Network (GPN) analysis, the book highlights, on the one hand, how the complex labour control regime in the Bangalore export-garment cluster poses manifold challenges and constraints for workers’ and unions’ collective agency. On the other hand, the book illustrates the various networked agency strategies that local garment unions in Bangalore have developed over the years to overcome these constraints by tapping into coalitional power resources from worker, consumer and labour rights organisations in the Global North.
This book is therefore highly relevant for economic geographers and other scholars interested in dynamics of labour and development in GPNs as well as for unionists and labour rights activists committed to improving working conditions in the global garment industry.
This is an open access book.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Labour Control and Union Agency in Global Production Networks
Book Subtitle: A Case Study of the Bangalore Export-garment Cluster
Authors: Tatiana López
Series Title: Economic Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27387-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27386-5Published: 16 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27389-6Published: 16 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27387-2Published: 15 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2520-1417
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1425
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 313
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Geography, Economy-wide Country Studies, Human Geography, Tourism Management, Environmental Economics, International Business