Since the early 1990s the concept of supply chains has been used widely in academic research on globalisation involving a variety of commodities. More recently, supply chain structures, often represented as linear hierarchical relationships, have been used to inform labour movement initiatives aimed at improving conditions faced by workers, farmers and local communities at the bottom of such chains, for example clothing outworkers or those in sweat-shops. This paper takes a step back from the supply chain concept to reflect critically on a broader framework of ideas, usually termed global commodity chain (GCC) analysis (see Gereffi et al. 1994; Lesley and Reimer 1999; Dicken et al., 2001; Bair, 2005). The paper reflects on strengths and wea...
Deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s reaffirmed a market approach to the global trading of goods. Sug...
There is a consensus that global value chains have aided developing countries' growth. This essay hi...
Two banana supply chains (BSC), one in Indonesia (BSC1) and one in Australia (BSC2), are described b...
Global value chain (GVC) governance is central to analyses of labour's strategic options. It frames ...
Global production network (GPN) analysts argue that workers actively contribute to the shaping of GP...
This thesis examines the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and voluntary labour initiati...
This thesis examines the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and voluntary labour initiati...
textabstractThe co-ordination of global production and trade within value chains has amplified debat...
In this paper, the author seeks to explain the trajectories of local labor regime dynamics in Colomb...
Two banana supply chains (BSC), one in Indonesia (BSC1) and one in Australia (BSC2), are described b...
The origins of this Special Issue lie in a stream organized at the International Labour Process Conf...
Research on banana supply chains (BSCs) was conducted in 2001 and 2002 through two case studies, BSC...
The first part of the paper discusses changes which occurred in the world market for bananas in rece...
A growing body of scholarship analyzes the emergence and resilience of forced labor in developing co...
In August 2003, the government of the Philippines took Australia's long-standing ban on banana impor...
Deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s reaffirmed a market approach to the global trading of goods. Sug...
There is a consensus that global value chains have aided developing countries' growth. This essay hi...
Two banana supply chains (BSC), one in Indonesia (BSC1) and one in Australia (BSC2), are described b...
Global value chain (GVC) governance is central to analyses of labour's strategic options. It frames ...
Global production network (GPN) analysts argue that workers actively contribute to the shaping of GP...
This thesis examines the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and voluntary labour initiati...
This thesis examines the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and voluntary labour initiati...
textabstractThe co-ordination of global production and trade within value chains has amplified debat...
In this paper, the author seeks to explain the trajectories of local labor regime dynamics in Colomb...
Two banana supply chains (BSC), one in Indonesia (BSC1) and one in Australia (BSC2), are described b...
The origins of this Special Issue lie in a stream organized at the International Labour Process Conf...
Research on banana supply chains (BSCs) was conducted in 2001 and 2002 through two case studies, BSC...
The first part of the paper discusses changes which occurred in the world market for bananas in rece...
A growing body of scholarship analyzes the emergence and resilience of forced labor in developing co...
In August 2003, the government of the Philippines took Australia's long-standing ban on banana impor...
Deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s reaffirmed a market approach to the global trading of goods. Sug...
There is a consensus that global value chains have aided developing countries' growth. This essay hi...
Two banana supply chains (BSC), one in Indonesia (BSC1) and one in Australia (BSC2), are described b...