There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the structuring, organization and dynamics of global systems of production and reproduction. The concept has a long heritage that can be traced back to the 1970s and the contributions to this book seek to develop further this emerging field.
The book traces the intellectual development of labour regime concepts across various disciplines, notably political economy, development studies, sociology and geography. Building on these foundations it considers conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production relating to issues of scale, informality, gender, race, social reproduction, ecology and migration, and offers new insights into the work conditions of global production chains from Amazon’s warehouses in the United States, to industrial production networks in the Global South, and to the dormitory towns of migrant workers in Czechia. It also explores recent mobilizations of labour regime analysis in relation to methods, theory and research practice.
Table of Content
1. Labour regimes and global production
Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe and Adrian Smith
Part I: Antecedents
2. Gendered labour regimes in global production
Jennifer Bair
3. Grounding labour regime analysis in agrarian political economy
Jens Lerche
4. Modalities of labour: restructuring, regulation, regime
Jamie Peck
Part II: Theoretical and methodological developments
5. Exploitation and labour regimes: production, circulation, social reproduction, ecology
Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Alessandra Mezzadri, Satoshi Miyamura, Jonathan Pattenden and Benjamin Selwyn
6. Doing labour regimes research with large-scale surveys in Africa
Carlos Oya
7. Labour regimes and embodied labour
Sébastien Rioux
8. The continent of labour and uneven development: the making of transnational labour regimes in East Asia
Dae-oup Chang
9. Uneven despotization: labour regimes in global production
Stefanie Hürtgen
10. Labour regimes, social reproduction, and boundary-drawing strategies across the arc of US world hegemony
Kevan Harris and Phillip A. Hough
Part III: Doing labour regime analysis
11. National labour control regimes and worker resistance in global production networks
Mark Anner
12. Transnational private regulation and labour regimes in Indonesia and China
Tim Bartley and Neil M. Coe
13. International civil society organisations and the temporalities of labour regimes: a case study from the Bangladeshi apparel industry
Shyamain Wickramasinghe
14. Labour regimes and trade-based integration
Liam Campling, Adrian Smith and Mirela Barbu
15. The world is a warehouse: racialised labour regimes and the rise of Amazon’s global logistics empire
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
16. The dormitory regime revisited: time in transnational capitalist production
Rutvica Andrijasevic
17. ‘Just-in-time’ migrant workers in Czechia: racialisation and dormitory labour regimes
Hannah Schling
Conclusion: mapping a research agenda for labour regime analysis
Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe and Adrian Smith
About the author
Adrian Smith is Professor of Management at University of Sussex Business School.
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