{"product_id":"global-commodity-chains-and-labor-relations-9789004448032","title":"Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDue 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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\u0026gt;\/i\u0026gt;    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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210816119127,"sku":"9789004448032","price":128.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-commodity-chains-and-labor-relations-9789004448032","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}