Towards better work : understanding labour in apparel global value chains /

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The manufacture of apparel is an exemplar of global production. Since the 1970s, multinational brands have increasingly outsourced their manufacturing activities to lower cost production locations in developing countries. The low entry barriers and minimal investments needed in apparel led to boomin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rossi, Arianna, Luinstra, Amy, Pickles, John, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edición:[ILO edition].
Colección:Advances in labour studies.
Temas:
Clothing workers > Supply and demand.
Manufacturing industries > Employees > Supply and demand.
Travailleurs du vêtement > Offre et demande.
Industrie manufacturière > Personnel > Offre et demande.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • PART I
  • 1. Re-embedding the Market: Global Apparel Value Chains, Governance and Decent Work; Frederick Mayer and John Pickles
  • 2. Economic and Social Upgrading of Developing Countries in the Global Apparel Sector: Insights from Using a Parsimonious Measurement Approach; Thomas Bernhardt
  • 3. How 'Fair' Are Wage Practices along the Supply Chain? A Global Assessment; Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
  • 4. Regulating the 'Wage Effort Bargain' in Outsourced Apparel Production: Towards a Model; Doug Miller
  • PART II
  • 5. What Does 'Fast Fashion' Mean for Workers?Apparel Production in Morocco and Romania; Leonhard Plank, Arianna Rossi and Cornelia Staritz
  • 6. Voting with Their Feet? Explaining High Turnover and Low Productivity in the Lao Garment Sector; Richard Record, Stephanie Kuttner and Kabmanivanh Phouxay
  • 7. Vulnerable Workers and Labour Standards (Non- )Compliance in Global Production Networks: Home-Based Child Labour in Delhi's Garment Sector; Resmi Bhaskaran, Dev Nathan, Nicola Phillips and C. Upendranadh
  • 8. Workers' Perceptions of Compliance with Labour Standards: Assessing Opportunities and Challenges for Better Work in Lesotho's Apparel Sector; Kelly Pike and Shane Godfrey
  • 9. Workers' Agency and Power Relations in Cambodia's Garment Industry; Dennis Arnold
  • 10. Factory Decisions to Become Noncompliant with Labor Standards: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia; Drusilla Brown, Rajeev Dehejia and Raymond Robertson
  • 11. Towards Better Work in Central America: Nicaragua and the CAFTA Context; Jennifer Bair and Gary Gereffi
  • Conclusions.

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