| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 313 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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Economic geography, 2520-1425 |
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Economic geography (Cham, Switzerland), 2520-1425
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| Contents |
Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part II: Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2. Situating This Study Within Geographical Debates On Labour In Gpns -- Chapter 3. A Relational, Practice-Oriented Approach To Labour Control Regimes And Union Agency In Gpns -- Part III: Research Design & Methodology -- Chapter 4. Research Design & Methodology -- Part IV: Introduction Of Empirical Case -- Chapter 5. Situating The Bangalore Export Cluster Within The Garment Gpn -- Part V: Empirical Analysis -- Chapter 6. Labour Control Regime In The Bangalore Export Garment Cluster -- Chapter 7. Union Agency In The Bangalore Export Garment Cluster -- Part VI: Theoretical Contributions And Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Theoretical Contributions Of This Study -- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Lessons For Building Sustained Union Power In Garment Production Countries. |
| Access |
Open access. GW5XE |
| Summary |
This book puts Indian garment workers and their organisations at the centre of the analysis. Taking the Bangalore export-garment cluster as a case study, the book explores the conditions that enable but also constrain the capacities of garment workers' unions to build collective power vis-à-vis employers and thereby improve their conditions. Drawing on theoretical concepts from labour geography, relational economic geography, and Global Production Network (GPN) analysis, the book highlights, on the one hand, how the complex labour control regime in the Bangalore export-garment cluster poses manifold challenges and constraints for workers’ and unions’ collective agency. On the other hand, the book illustrates the various networked agency strategies that local garment unions in Bangalore have developed over the years to overcome these constraints by tapping into coalitional power resources from worker, consumer and labour rights organisations in the Global North. This book is therefore highly relevant for economic geographers and other scholars interested in dynamics of labour and development in GPNs as well as for unionists and labour rights activists committed to improving working conditions in the global garment industry. This is an open access book. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 22, 2023). |
| Local Note |
Springer Nature Springer Nature - SpringerLink eBooks - Fully Open Access |
| Subject |
Labor unions -- Bangladesh.
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Clothing trade -- Bangladesh.
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Labor laws and legislation -- Bangladesh.
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Clothing trade
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Labor laws and legislation
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Labor unions
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Bangladesh https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxRFY9Rf3kyRgDG9r6dwC
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| Other Form: |
Original 3031273869 9783031273865 (OCoLC)1366124005 |
| ISBN |
9783031273872 (electronic bk.) |
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3031273877 (electronic bk.) |
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9783031273865 |
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3031273869 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-031-27387-2 doi |
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