Labour in Global Production Networks

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dc.contributor.author	Lund-Thomsen, Peter
dc.contributor.author	Nadvi, Khalid
dc.contributor.author	Chan, Anita
dc.contributor.author	Khara, Navjote
dc.contributor.author	Xue, Hong
dc.date.issued	2011-06-06
dc.identifier.isbn	9788792114235
dc.identifier.other	PURE: 32393266
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8315
dc.description.abstract	A critical challenge facing developing country producers is to meet international labour standards and codes of conduct in order to engage in global production networks. Evidence of gains for workers from compliance with such standards and codes remains limited and patchy. This paper focuses on the global football industry, a sector dominated by leading global brands who manage dispersed global production networks. It assesses the work conditions for football stitchers engaged in different forms of work organisation, factories, stitching centres, and home-based settings, in Pakistan, India, and China. It draws on detailed qualitative primary field research with football stitching workers and producers in these three countries. The paper explains how, and why, work conditions of football stitchers differ across these locations through an analytical framework that interweaves both global and local production contexts that influence work condition. In doing so, it argues that current debates on the role of labour in global production networks have to go beyond a narrow focus on labour standards and CSR compliance and engage with economic, technological and social upgrading as factors that could generate sustained improvements in real wages and workers conditions.	en_US
dc.format.extent	28	en_US
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Center for Corporate Social Responsibility, CBS
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Paper	en_US
dc.title	Labour in Global Production Networks	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.description.version	publishersversion	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of Intercultural Communication and Management	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	A Comparative Study of Workers Conditions in Football Manufacturing in China, India and Pakistan	en_US