Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations (Studies in Global Social History)

Komlosy, Andrea (EDT)/ Musić, Goran (EDT)

Brill（2021/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 392 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004448032

Full Description

Due to the increasing linkage of global production sites, the concept of commodity chains has become indispensable for the investigation of production at a global scale. Although work is the basis of production in every involved location, it is often being neglected as a research subject without taking interest in the workers, the work processes and the working conditions. 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 labour history.

Contributors are: András Pinkasz, Andrea Komlosy, Christin Bernhold, Ernst Langthaler, Franziska Ollendorf, Goran Musić, Jan Grumiller, Johanna Sittel, Jörg Nowak, Karin Fischer, Klemens Kaps, Miroslav Lacko, Santosh Hasnu, Stefan Schmalz, Tamás Gerőcs, Tibor T. Meszmann, and Uwe Spiekermann.

Contents

List of Maps, Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Chains of Labor

 Connecting Global Labor History and the Commodity Chain Paradigm

  Andrea Komlosy and Goran Musić

PART 1

Theorizing Commodity Chains, Labor Relations and Upgrading

2 Cycles of Global Expansion and Contraction

 Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations in Textiles and Garments from 17th to 21st Century

  Andrea Komlosy

3 Soy Expansions

 China, the USA and Brazil in Comparison

  Ernst Langthaler

4 Who's Upgrading? Class Differentiation and Labor Relations in Argentinian Agribusiness

  Christin Bernhold

PART 2

Commodity Chains and Proto-industrialization in Early Modern Central Europe

5 Grain, Flour, Beer, and Liquor

 Commodity Chains, Labor Relations and Economic Development in Habsburg Galicia, 1772-1918

  Klemens Kaps

6 Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations in the Distribution of Central European Copper in the Eighteenth Century

  Miroslav Lacko

PART 3

Commodity Chains in (Post-)Colonial Settings>/i>

7 Labor as a Bottleneck

 Entangled Commodity Chains of Sugar in Hawaii and California in the Late Nineteenth Century

  Uwe Spiekermann

8 Coolie Labor, Tea Planters and Transport in Colonial India

  Santosh Hasnu

9 Analyzing Structural Change and Labor Relations in Global Commodity Chains

 The Ethiopian Leather Industry

  Jan Grumiller

PART 4

Production Chains in (Post-)Socialist Eastern Europe

10 Outward Processing Production and the Yugoslav Self-Managed Textile Industry in the 1980s

  Goran Musić

11 Uneven Development in the European Automotive Industry

 Labor Fragmentation and Value- Added Production in the Hungarian Semi-Periphery

  Tamás Gerőcs, Tibor T. Meszmann and András Pinkasz

PART 5

Trade Union Networks, ngo campaigns, Workers' Agency

12 Transnational Solidarity Networks between Workers and Global Production Networks

  Jörg Nowak

13 Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Cocoa Chocolate Chain

 Insights from sustainability certification in Ghana's Cocoa Communities

  Franziska Ollendorf

14 On the (Re)Production of Informal Work in Argentina's Auto Industry

  Stefan Schmalz and Johanna Sittel

PART 6

Conclusion

15 Global Labor and Labor Studies - Breaking the Chains

  Karin Fischer

 Index of Places, Persons, Companies and Institutions