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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.