Overview
- Outlines policy suggestions for how to improve upgrading trajectories and global value chain structures
- Contains empirical case studies from different industries and countries to accompany theoretical frameworks
- Written by experts in the field who bring together knowledge and experience from both the Global North and Global South
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Interdisciplinary Theoretical Contributions—Framing the Debate
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Insights from Different National Sectors
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Strategic Consequences and Solutions from Different Backgrounds
Keywords
- Global value chains and labour
- Vertical global value chains
- Social inequalities in global value chains
- Globalization and value systems
- Global value networks
- Regimes of production
- Collective bargaining
- Social upgrading in agriculture
- Upgrading in the garment sector
- Political economy of social upgrading
- Global value chains in emerging technologies
- Industry-specific trajectories
- Corona crisis and global value chains
About this book
This book investigates how global value chain governance, public institutions and strategies in the area of industrial policy and industrial relations by stakeholders such as national or global trade unions, governments, companies or international NGOs shape upgrading in the Global South. A special feature is its interdisciplinarity, combining sociological, economic, legal and political dimensions. Case studies systematically compare different industry trajectories. Furthermore, it encompasses far-reaching insights into the role of global value chains for development, economic catching-up of countries and socio-political aspects such as working conditions and interest representation.
Reviews
“Finally, a set of analyses that explicitly brings power relations into the study of Global Value Chains. This excellent book highlights various dimensions of a critical but understudied feature: power asymmetries of both demand and supply at each stage, which give rise to rent-seeking in the upper levels and reduce capacities for upgrading at the lower levels of the chain. Public policies are crucial in determining the outcomes, which makes this book essential reading for anyone interested in economic development.”
—Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, Universiy of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.
“This book is an important contribution to the debate on global value chains. It is particularly important because it takes the perspective of the Global South and shows the risks for developing countries integrating through global value chains in a global economy with massive power imbalances. It also gives some hope that risks can be turned into success with strategic industrial and trade policies, social upgrading, strong international human rights due diligence regulations and a strong voice for workers.”
—Atle Høie, General Secretary of IndustriALL Global UnionEditors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christina Teipen is Professor for social sciences with a focus on economic sociology at HWR Berlin (Berlin School of Economics and Law).
Petra Dünhaupt is a research associate and lecturer at HWR Berlin.
Hansjörg Herr is Professor (retired) for supranational integration at HWR Berlin.
Fabian Mehl is a research associate and lecturer at HWR Berlin.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains
Book Subtitle: Comparative Analyses, Macroeconomic Effects, the Role of Institutions and Strategies for the Global South
Editors: Christina Teipen, Petra Dünhaupt, Hansjörg Herr, Fabian Mehl
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87320-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87319-6Published: 19 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87322-6Published: 20 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87320-2Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 600
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Economics, general