Prospects for Labour in Global Value Chains: Labour Standards in the Cut Flower and Banana Industries

By L. Riisgaard, Nikolaus Hammer. 2011

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Global value chain (GVC) governance is central to analyses of labour's strategic options. It frames the terrain on which labour campaigns and institutions — such as private social standards and international framework agreements — contribute to the social regulation of value chains. GVC concepts help to emphasize how power in the employment relationship transcends organizational boundaries, as well as how industrial power is shifting from the sphere of production to that of consumption. Based on extensive case studies of the banana and cut flower value chains, we explore the implications of GVC restructuring for the scope and form of labour rights strategies.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Strategy and Management

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From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains (2014, background): “…is “highly driven,” that is, when a strong lead firm governs supply chains in a handson manner irrespective of whether the lead firm is situated at the consumption or production end of the chain (Riisgaard & Hammer, 2011), a situation described as buyer- or producer-driven chains (Gereffi, 1994).”
Analyzing (2019, background): “…global norms are never perfectly coordinated transnationally (Castillo, 2000; Compa, 2002; Elliott et al. , 2003; Tsogas, 2009), they shape state and non-state regulation well beyond the formal ILO supervisory system (Charnovitz, 1987; Riisgaard et al. , 2011; Locke et al. , 2013; Murphy, 2014).”
Private Regulation and Trade Union Rights: Why Codes of Conduct Have Limited Impact on Trade Union Rights (2014, background): “Companies have responded to these challenges by adopting codes of conduct and conducting auditing, leading to the emergence of regulatory systems in the private sphere (Bartley 2007; Riisgaard and Hammer 2011).”
Labour in Global Value Chains: Work Conditions in Football Manufacturing in China, India and Pakistan (2012, background): “Coe and Jordhus-Lier (2010) have linked the rich literature on labour geography to GPN analysis, and argued for a more critical understanding of labour agency (see also Lund-Thomsen, forthcoming; Riisgaard and Hammer, 2011).”
Squeezing workers’ rights in global supply chains: purchasing practices in the Bangladesh garment export sector in comparative perspective (2020, background): “However, extant literature suggests there are adverse impacts on labor of a sourcing squeeze in other GSCs, be that in the agriculture sector, such as bananas and cut flowers (Riisgaard & Hammer, 2011), or in electronics (Locke, 2013).”
From the Firm to the Network: Global Value Chains and Employment Relations Theory (2013, unknown): “For instance, in their analysis of labor strategies in the cut flower and banana industries, Riisgaard and Hammer (2011) show that campaigns to incorporate labor standards at the level of production were most successful when targeted at vertically integrated value chains and value chains where…”