GLOBALISATION, FIRM UPGRADING AND IMPACTS ON LABOUR

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Bringing the social context back in: governance and wealth distribution in global commodity chains (2008, background): “Likewise, Knorringa and Pegler (2006) remarked that in GVC studies ‘the attention was almost exclusively focused on inter-firm relationships, basically neglecting impacts on labour’.”
Global production networks: realizing the potential (2008, background): “…cheap labour . . . this lacuna is surprising given the existence of a great quantity of research on the dynamics and contradictions of the labour process within firms examined in the commodity chain literature in sectors such as clothing, autos and retailing’ (see also Knorringa and Pegler, 2006).”
From the Firm to the Network: Global Value Chains and Employment Relations Theory (2013, unknown): “and employment, for example the increasing casualization and feminization of employment in such networks (Barrientos and Kritzinger 2004; Dolan and Sutherland 2003) or the implications of firm upgrading for labor (Barrientos, Gereffi and Rossi 2011; Knorringa and Pegler 2006).”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks: A New Paradigm for a Changing World (2011, background): “But it can also open up space for unscrupulous agents who expose workers to high levels of exploitation both on and off site, thereby undermining decent work conditions (Barrientos and Kritzinger, 2004; Kuptsch, 2006; Theron and Godfrey, 2000; Theron et al., 2004).”