Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour

By Neil M. Coe, David C. Jordhus‐Lier. 2011

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Subfields: Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Industrial Clusters and Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries: What We Know, What We do not Know, and What We Need to Know (2016, unknown): “…communities about how to deal with local cluster-based firms, the ability of multinational companies to redirect their sourcing to other clusters elsewhere in the developing world, and the role of labor market intermediaries that hire workers only on temporary bases (Coe and Jordhus-Lier, 2011).”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks: A New Paradigm for a Changing World (2011, background): “Consideration of workers in GPNs has so far been limited, particularly in academic studies (Pegler and Knorringa, 2007; Barrientos, Dolan and Tallontire, 2003; Cumbers, Nativel and Routledge, 2008; Coe and Jordhus-Lier, 2011; Rossi, 2011).”
Trinity of change agency, regional development paths and opportunity spaces (2020, background): “Such a relational approach gives credit to the emergent nature of structure and puts emphasis on agents’ varying capabilities, resources and powers (Gregson, 2005; Coe and Jordhus-Lier, 2011), and potentially links back to explanations of uneven development across space by explicitly focusing on str”
Labouring for global markets: Conceptualising labour agency in global production networks (2013, background): “…Coe and Jordhus-Lier argue for a re-embedding of labour agency within GPNs, and for a need to ‘reconnect conceptions of labour agency into the webs of wider relations with other social actors and institutions in which they [workers] are inevitable embedded’ (Coe and Jordhus-Lier, 2010: 11).”
‘Labour Chains’: Analysing the Role of Labour Contractors in Global Production Networks (2013, background): “…Kaplinsky, & Sturgeon 2001; Henderson, Dicken, Hess, Coe, & Yeung 2002).6 The role of labour has largely been overlooked in both GVC and GPN analysis (Barrientos, Dolan, & Tallontire 2003; Coe & Jordhus-Lier, 2010; Cumbers, Nativel, & Routledge 2008; Pegler & Knorringa, 2007; Selwyn, 2012).”
Agency and actors in regional industrial path development. A framework and longitudinal analysis (2020, background): “A distinction has been made in the literature between types of agency that transform existing structures and such that reproduce them (Coe and Jordhus-Lier, 2011).”