Baglioni Elena - Labour Regimes and Global Production

LABOUR REGIMES AND GLOBAL PRODUCTION

ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS

Series Editors: Brett Christophers, Rebecca Lave, Jamie Peck, Marion Werner

Fundamental to the Economic Transformations series is the conviction that geography matters in the diverse ways that economies work, for whom they work, and to what ends. The so-called imperatives of globalization, the promises of development, the challenges of environmental sustainability, the dull compulsion of competitive life, the urgency of campaigns for economic rights and social justice in all of these realms geography really matters, just as it does for a host of other contemporary concerns, from financialized growth to climate change, from green production to gender rights, from union renewal to structural adjustment. This major new series will publish on these and related issues, creating a space for interdisciplinary contributions from political economists, economic geographers, feminists, political ecologists, economic sociologists, critical development theorists, economic anthropologists, and their fellow travellers.

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LABOUR REGIMES AND GLOBAL PRODUCTION

Edited by
ELENA BAGLIONI, LIAM CAMPLING, NEIL M. COE
AND ADRIAN SMITH

2022 Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe, Adrian Smith; individual chapters, the contributors

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First published in 2022 by Agenda Publishing

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CONTENTS

Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe and Adrian Smith

Jennifer Bair

Jens Lerche

Jamie Peck

Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Alessandra Mezzadri, Satoshi Miyamura, Jonathan Pattenden and Benjamin Selwyn

Carlos Oya

Sbastien Rioux

Dae-oup Chang

Stefanie Hrtgen

Kevan Harris and Phillip A. Hough

Mark Anner

Tim Bartley and Neil M. Coe

Shyamain Wickramasingha

Liam Campling, Adrian Smith and Mirela Barbu

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson

Rutvica Andrijasevic

Hannah Schling

Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe and Adrian Smith

This book stems from the intersecting and ongoing efforts of the editors to theorize labour regimes, which provided the stimulus for a co-organized workshop in London in January 2019: Conceptualising labour regimes and global production. The workshop saw presentations from around 20 established and early-career scholars working in the field, some of which have found their way into this collection. Importantly, the meeting served to deepen our collective discussions on this topic, and provided a platform from which to extend the coverage of the book by involving a range of other leading scholars working on various aspects of labour regime theories in different research contexts. As such, Labour Regimes and Global Production is designed to be a substantive collection of contemporary work that develops and deepens debate on the current scope and potential of labour regime analysis in understanding the dynamics of global production in contemporary capitalism. It draws upon, appraises and advances the rich and multidisciplinary lineage of work on the subject undertaken since the early 1980s. Our aim is for the book to make a foundational statement on the (re-)emerging conversations around labour regime analysis in a globalized economy.

We are very grateful to the Global Production Networks Research Centre at the National University of Singapore (GPN@NUS) in supporting the workshop and the research of Neil Coe via grant number R-109-000-183-646. Excellent administrative support has also been provided at GPN@NUS by Dione Ng, Muhammad Yusuf Bin Osman and Paige Nguyen. We are also very grateful to Queen Mary University of Londons Centre on Labour and Global Production, which is funded by the School of Business and Management and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and integrates researchers in the School of Geography. We would like to thank all the workshop attendees who are not represented in the pages that follow, for the excellent ideas, discussion and debate during the workshop and afterwards: Steffen Fischer, Martin Hess, Carlo Inverardi-Ferri, Elisa Greco, Jonathan Jones, Siobhan McGrath, Kirsty Newsome, Helena Prez Nio, Zafer Ornek and Rosie Rawle. Two of us Adrian Smith and Liam Campling would also like to thank Steffen Fischer for the years of extensive conversations in connection with his thesis on labour regimes in Liberias iron ore and rubber industries.

At Agenda Publishing, we thank Alison Howson and Steven Gerrard for their enthusiastic support for this project from the outset and their understanding as the Covid-19 pandemic inevitably caused timelines to slip somewhat. Mike Richardson provided expert professional copy-editing, Helen Flitton managed the production process very efficiently and Zafer Ornek did a sterling job in compiling the index to the book. Likewise, we thank the series editors Brett Christophers, Rebecca Lave, Jamie Peck and Marion Werner for their support, with particular thanks to Marion for her careful and constructive reading of the draft manuscript.

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach.

Rutvica Andrijasevic is Associate Professor in International Migration and Business at the University of Bristol.

Mark Anner is Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, and Political Science, at Pennsylvania State University.

Elena Baglioni is Senior Lecturer in Global Supply Chain Management at Queen Mary University of London.

Jennifer Bair is Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia.

Mirela Barbu is Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the University of Sussex.

Tim Bartley is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Stockholm University and Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Liam Campling is Professor of International Business and Development at Queen Mary University of London.

Dae-oup Chang is Professor of Global Korean Studies at Sogang University.

Neil M. Coe is Professor of Economic Geography at the National University of Singapore.

Kevan Harris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Phillip A. Hough