On farm and packhouse: Employment at the bottom of a global value chain

By C. Dolan. 2004

120 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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4. R. Smalley

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Citations in the corpus

• From the Firm to the Network: Global Value Chains and Employment Relations Theory (2013, unknown): “…much of the previous literature has only examined a narrow range of employment system criteria and case studies which have applied network-based approaches to the study of work and employment have disproportionately focused on one end, the “bottom” as Dolan (2004) calls it, of global value chains.”
• Gender and Modern Supply Chains in Developing Countries (2012, background): “…with previous studies showing that employment conditions in labour markets in high-value supply chains are gendered, for example Barrientos and Kritzinger (2004) and Nelson et al. (2007) on the South African fruit and wine export sectors, and Dolan (2004) on the Kenyan horticulture export sector.”
• Plantations, Contract Farming and Commercial Farming Areas in Africa: A Comparative Review (2013, background): “There are reports of farmers in 1950s Namibia holding children of San workers hostage to prevent their parents deserting (Devereux et al. 1996).”
• Intensification of workplace regimes in British horticulture: the role of migrant workers (2008, background): “In contrast, the role of the concentrated power of British retailers in social regulation of work-place relations has been analysed with respect to international agriculture, particularly with regard to the production of fresh fruit and vegetables in sub-Saharan Africa (eg. Barrientos and Kritzinger”
• A food regime genealogy (2009, unknown): “…food (Lang and Heasman 2004), and a gathering of food sovereignty movements across the world (Desmarais 2007) to reverse the modernist narrative of smallholder obsolescence etched into the development paradigm and current development industry visions of ‘feeding the world’ (McMichael 2008a).”