Giant Transnational Contractors in East Asia: Emergent Trends in Global Supply Chains

By Richard Appelbaum. 2008

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• Asian firms and the restructuring of global value chains (2014, background): “…one day challenge the power of the global buyers they now serve, and potentially becoming global buyers in their own right (Appelbaum & Smith, 2001; Appelbaum, 2008, 2009).1 1 More recently Merk (2014) has also highlighted the rise of Asian ‘tier 1 firms’ in the global garment industry, and…”
• The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and China's new working class (2013, background): “Appelbaum (2008) finds that East Asian contractors, ranging from footwear and garments to electronics, have been integrating vertically in the supply chains. Starosta (2010) focuses on the rise of ‘highly concentrated global contractors’ in the electronics industry, in which they serve multiple bran”
• Global value chains, rising power firms and economic and social upgrading (2015, background): “The rise of large consolidated, transnational suppliers in RP economies generates the expectation that they may check the power of global lead firms (Appelbaum, 2008).”
• Social Upgrading and Labour in Global Production Networks: A Critique and an Alternative Conception (2013, background): “Other studies within GCC/GVC and GPN literatures show how, whilst capitalist managers may initially conceive of workers as sources of cheap and disciplined labour, through their actions the latter have been able to both alter the most exploitative firm practices (see Applebaum (2008) and Barboza (20”
• Global Commodity Chains and the Marxian Law of Value (2010, background): “…(in contrast to the sweatshops of small contractors emblematic of the early phases of the apparel GCC), but they have also taken over many of the pre- and post-production functions previously centralised by “big buyers”, including design, warehousing and control over logistics (Appelbaum 2008:73).”