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Book SynopsisThere has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the structuring, organization and dynamics of global systems of production and reproduction. The concept has a long heritage that can be traced back to the 1970s and the contributions to this book seek to develop further this emerging field.
The book traces the intellectual development of labour regime concepts across various disciplines, notably political economy, development studies, sociology and geography. Building on these foundations it considers conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production relating to issues of scale, informality, gender, race, social reproduction, ecology and migration, and offers new insights into the work conditions of global production chains from Amazon's warehouses in the United States, to industrial production networks in the Global South, and to the dormitory towns of migrant workers in Czechia. It also explores recent mobilizations of labour regime analysis in relation to methods, theory and research practice.
Trade ReviewA comprehensive analysis of labour regimes … explores the intellectual development of labour regime concepts across various disciplines. The book also offers new insights into the work conditions of global production chains from Amazon’s warehouses and its logistic chains in the United States, to industrial production networks in the Global South, and to the dormitory town of migrant workers in Czechia.
-- Asian Labour Review
Table of Contents1. Labour regimes and global productionElena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe and Adrian Smith
Part I: Antecedents2. Gendered labour regimes in global productionJennifer Bair
3. Grounding labour regime analysis in agrarian political economyJens Lerche
4. Modalities of labour: restructuring, regulation, regimeJamie Peck
Part II: Theoretical and methodological developments5. Exploitation and labour regimes: production, circulation, social reproduction, ecologyElena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Alessandra Mezzadri, Satoshi Miyamura, Jonathan Pattenden and Benjamin Selwyn
6. Doing labour regimes research with large-scale surveys in AfricaCarlos Oya
7. Labour regimes and embodied labourSébastien Rioux
8. The continent of labour and uneven development: the making of transnational labour regimes in East AsiaDae-oup Chang
9. Uneven despotization: labour regimes in global productionStefanie Hürtgen
10. Labour regimes, social reproduction, and boundary-drawing strategies across the arc of US world hegemonyKevan Harris and Phillip A. Hough
Part III: Doing labour regime analysis11. National labour control regimes and worker resistance in global production networksMark Anner
12. Transnational private regulation and labour regimes in Indonesia and ChinaTim Bartley and Neil M. Coe
13. International civil society organisations and the temporalities of labour regimes: a case study from the Bangladeshi apparel industryShyamain Wickramasinghe
14. Labour regimes and trade-based integrationLiam Campling, Adrian Smith and Mirela Barbu
15. The world is a warehouse: racialised labour regimes and the rise of Amazon’s global logistics empireJake Alimahomed-Wilson
16. The dormitory regime revisited: time in transnational capitalist productionRutvica Andrijasevic
17. "Just-in-time" migrant workers in Czechia: racialisation and dormitory labour regimesHannah Schling
Conclusion: mapping a research agenda for labour regime analysisElena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe and Adrian Smith
