This article examines the disconnection between promises of labour rights made at the international level and their inaccessibility to workers at the local level. Going beyond the concept of a global ‘governance gap’, it draws on a political economy perspective and focuses on the intersecting and competing roles of different forms of capital and the state, in curtailing workers’ paths to remedy in the global apparel (garment) value chain. A longitudinal case study of a campaign by Turkish garment workers, seeking remedy for lost earnings and severance payments due factory closure and wage theft, is the focus for analysis. The workplace is conceptualised as a key ‘arena of disarticulation’ in the apparel value chain, central in simultaneousl...
Today's global political economy suffers from a governance deficit within transnational supply chain...
The rise of the anti-sweatshop movement in the 1990s made it clear that absent public pressure, mult...
Production of both goods and services is rapidly becoming dependent on a global labour system in whi...
This article examines the disconnection between promises of labour rights made at the international ...
This article examines the disconnection between promises of labour rights made at the international ...
A state-led industrialization push inspired by the East Asian ‘developmental state’ model is at the ...
A state-led industrialization push inspired by the East Asian ‘developmental state’ model is at the ...
Almost on a daily basis newspapers and magazines tell us of the exploitative circumstances under whi...
Some observers would like to explain away sweatshops as immigrants exploiting other immigrants, as ...
This article critically evaluates trade union strategies and the international consumer campaign in ...
Production of both goods and services is rapidly becoming dependent on a global labour system in whi...
Global outsourcing arrangements in the garment industry, and elsewhere, provide one type of company—...
Production of both goods and services is rapidly becoming dependent on a global labour system in whi...
This thesis provides an original contribution to understanding of stakeholder capitalism and applica...
This article reports the findings of a field study on the emergence of collective agreements led by ...
Today's global political economy suffers from a governance deficit within transnational supply chain...
The rise of the anti-sweatshop movement in the 1990s made it clear that absent public pressure, mult...
Production of both goods and services is rapidly becoming dependent on a global labour system in whi...
This article examines the disconnection between promises of labour rights made at the international ...
This article examines the disconnection between promises of labour rights made at the international ...
A state-led industrialization push inspired by the East Asian ‘developmental state’ model is at the ...
A state-led industrialization push inspired by the East Asian ‘developmental state’ model is at the ...
Almost on a daily basis newspapers and magazines tell us of the exploitative circumstances under whi...
Some observers would like to explain away sweatshops as immigrants exploiting other immigrants, as ...
This article critically evaluates trade union strategies and the international consumer campaign in ...
Production of both goods and services is rapidly becoming dependent on a global labour system in whi...
Global outsourcing arrangements in the garment industry, and elsewhere, provide one type of company—...
Production of both goods and services is rapidly becoming dependent on a global labour system in whi...
This thesis provides an original contribution to understanding of stakeholder capitalism and applica...
This article reports the findings of a field study on the emergence of collective agreements led by ...
Today's global political economy suffers from a governance deficit within transnational supply chain...
The rise of the anti-sweatshop movement in the 1990s made it clear that absent public pressure, mult...
Production of both goods and services is rapidly becoming dependent on a global labour system in whi...