Labour control and union agency in global production networks : a case study of the Bangalore export-garment cluster / Tatiana López.
López, Tatiana, author.
2023
HD6816.5.Z7 C6 2023eb
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Title Labour control and union agency in global production networks : a case study of the Bangalore export-garment cluster / Tatiana López.
Author López, Tatiana, author.
ISBN 9783031273872 (electronic bk.)
3031273877 (electronic bk.)
9783031273865
3031273869
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27387-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxv, 313 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-27387-2 doi
Call Number HD6816.5.Z7 C6 2023eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.8811687
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Open access.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 22, 2023).
Series Economic geography (Cham, Switzerland), 2520-1425
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783031273865
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Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part II: Theoretical Framework
Chapter 2. Situating This Study Within Geographical Debates On Labour In Gpns
Chapter 3. A Relational, Practice-Oriented Approach To Labour Control Regimes And Union Agency In Gpns
Part III: Research Design & Methodology
Chapter 4. Research Design & Methodology
Part IV: Introduction Of Empirical Case
Chapter 5. Situating The Bangalore Export Cluster Within The Garment Gpn
Part V: Empirical Analysis
Chapter 6. Labour Control Regime In The Bangalore Export Garment Cluster
Chapter 7. Union Agency In The Bangalore Export Garment Cluster
Part VI: Theoretical Contributions And Conclusion
Chapter 8. Theoretical Contributions Of This Study
Chapter 9. Conclusion: Lessons For Building Sustained Union Power In Garment Production Countries.

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