This article advocates the centrality of labour control to understand the constitutive role of
labour and production within global production networks (GPNs). It draws from the global …

In current debates on precarization in Europe, a transnational and more class-based
perspective is demanded. While fully supporting this request, this article nevertheless …

Global production networks (GPNs) connect multiple producers involved in fragmented
manufacturing processes. Major brands and retailers, considered as lead firms, are under …

As an Introduction to the Debate section that follows, this article develops the concept of
'Networks of Labour Activism'(NOLA) as a distinct, and important, aspect of cross‐border …

This paper examines global production networks through the lens of uneven development.
Although originally concerned with asymmetries in the global economy, in the 1990s, global …

Using a six-year study of Better Work Lesotho (BWL), this article examines whether the ILO's
Better Work initiative leads to improvements in labor standards compliance. Data include 55 …

This article locates the reorganization of work relations in the apparel sector in Pakistan,
after the end of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) quota regime, within the context of a …

The collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Bangladesh, which resulted in
the loss of at least 1134 lives and injuries to hundreds more, exposed the brutality of a …

This article focuses on the interlinkages between the labour process and global value
chains. It draws on the renewed growth in UK apparel manufacturing, specifically within the …

This article argues that the global value chains framework has a problematic approach to
examining the impact of value chains on workforce development systems (WDSs), given …