Labour Regimes and Global Production
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factory production
gendered labour
global logistics
globalization
labour regulation
manual labour
migrant labour
offshoring
outsourcing manufacture
precarious work
supply chain management
sweatshops
women's work
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- ISBN 9781788216791
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jul 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the structuring, organization and dynamics of global systems of production and reproduction. The concept has a long heritage that can be traced back to the 1970s and the contributions to this book seek to develop further this emerging field.
The book traces the intellectual development of labour regime concepts across various disciplines, notably political economy, development studies, sociology and geography. Building on these foundations it considers conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production relating to issues of scale, informality, gender, race, social reproduction, ecology and migration, and offers new insights into the work conditions of global production chains from Amazon's warehouses in the United States, to industrial production networks in the Global South, and to the dormitory towns of migrant workers in Czechia. It also explores recent mobilizations of labour regime analysis in relation to methods, theory and research practice.
Elena Baglioni is Reader in Global Supply Chain Management and Sustainability at Queen Mary University of London. Liam Campling is Professor of International Business and Development at Queen Mary University of London. Neil M. Coe is Professor of Economic Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. Adrian Smith is Professor of Management at University of Sussex Business School.
