| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 392 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 42 |
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Studies in global social history ; v. 42.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 phenomena. The book is thus an important and valuable contribution to commodity chain research, but also to the fields of social-economic and global labor history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 25, 2021) |
| Subject |
Labor.
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Production control.
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Business logistics.
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International business enterprises.
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Work
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labor.
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Business logistics
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International business enterprises
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Labor
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Production control
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Komlosy, Andrea, editor
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Musić, Goran, 1981- editor.
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| LC no. |
2020048767 |
| ISBN |
9004448047 |
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9789004448049 |
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9004448039 |
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9789004448032 |
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