Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations

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This edited volume provides a collection of historical and contemporary commodity chain studies placing labor at the centre of their analysis. It represents an important contribution to commodity chain research, but also to the fields of social-economic and global labour history. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Maps, Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Chapter 1 Chains of Labor: Connecting Global Labor History and the Commodity Chain Paradigm 1 Global Commodity Chains: The Concept and Its Adaptations 2 Global Labor History: Bringing Labor Back 3 Connecting Approaches 4 Chain Actors 5 Chapter Overview Bibliography Part 1 Theorizing Commodity Chains, Labor Relations and Upgrading Chapter 2 Cycles of Global Expansion and Contraction: Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations in Textiles and Garments fro 1 Before 1700: Artisan Production, Linked by Trade 2 1700–1820 Manufacture and Putting Out Systems: Central Headquarters Relocating Work to Rural Households 3 1800–1914: New Combinations of Factory Labor with Craft, Home and Subsistence Work in the “Industrial” (West) and the “Indust 4 1918–1973: Catching Up the Factory System after Decolonization: Industrial Factory Labor Gaining Grounds 5 1970s Onwards: Re-globalization of Commodity Chains 6 Latest Developments, Contradictions and Perspectives 7 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 3 Soy Expansions: China, the USA and Brazil in Comparison 1 Introduction 2 Soy as a Versatile Crop 3 The Chinese Soy Expansion 4 The US Soy Expansion 5 The Brazilian Soy Expansion 6 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 4 Who’s Upgrading? Class Differentiation and Labor Relations in Argentinian Agribusiness 1 Commodity Chains, Class and Labor 2 Upgrading Pampean Agriculture 3 Amplio: A Case of Upgrading and Capital Diversification 4 “You oversee your own things …” 5 (Scattered) Rural Wage Labor and Contratistas 6 Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Part 2 Commodity Chains and Proto-industrialization in Early Modern Central Europe Chapter 5 Grain, Flour, Beer, and Liquor: Commodity Chains, Labor Relations and Economic Development in Habsburg Galicia, 1772 1 Introduction: Explaining a Region’s Economic Development by Analyzing Its Position within Commodity Chains 2 Galicia: A Poverty-Stricken Province on the Outskirts of the Habsburg Monarchy 3 1772–1830: Disintegration of Global Markets and a Precarious Internal Upgrade of Production 4 1830–1873: Galicia’s Return to International Commodity Chains 5 1873–1918: Interregional Versus International Commodity Chains 6 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 6 Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations in the Distribution of Central European Copper in the Eighteenth Century 1 Introduction 2 Labor Relations in Copper Mining 3 Labor Relations in Copper Processing and Metallurgy 4 Recruitment of Laborers for Copper Mining and Processing 5 Copper Marketing: Private Financiers versus State Administration 6 Conclusion Bibliography Part 3 Commodity Chains in (Post- )Colonial Settings Chapter 7 Labor as a Bottleneck: Entangled Commodity Chains of Sugar in Hawaii and California in the Late Nineteenth Century 1 Towards the Spreckels Sugar Empire: Irrigation and the Industrialized Plantation Economy on Maui 2 The Need for Cheap Labor: Contract Work and Economic Multiculturalism 3 Labor and the Public: Scandalizing Coolie Work in California 4 From Periphery to the Center: The Establishment of California’s Beet Sugar Industry 5 Coup d’État, Annexation and the Rise of the “Big Five” in Hawaii 6 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 8 Coolie Labor, Tea Planters, and Transport in Colonial India 1 High Mortality of Coolies in Transit Via Steamers 2 Building the Railways 3 Travel, Migration and Transport Regulations 4 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 9 Analyzing Structural Change and Labor Relations in Global Commodity Chains: The Ethiopian Leather Industry 1 Introduction 2 Analyzing Industrial Relations in (Global) Commodity Chains 3 The Leather Industry and the Global Leather Commodity Chain 4 The Emergence and Transformation of the Leather Industry in Ethiopia since the Early Twentieth Century 4.1 Historical Contextualization 4.2 The Ethiopian Developmental State: Transforming the Leather Industry 4.3 Today’s Structure and (Global) Market Integration of the Leather Manufacturing Sector 5 Labor Relations in Ethiopia’s Leather Manufacturing Sector 6 Conclusion Bibliography Part 4 Production Chains in (Post-)Socialist Eastern Europe Chapter 10 Outward Processing Production and the Yugoslav Self-Managed Textile Industry in the 1980s 1 Sharing Garment Production: eec and Yugoslavia 2 The Illusive Gains of Lon 3 The “Necessary Evil” 4 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 11 Uneven Development in the European Automotive Industry: Labor Fragmentation and Value-Added Production in the Hunga 1 Introduction 2 Theoretical Framework: Industrial Sociology Combined with Uneven Development and Value Chain Analysis 3 Fragmentation of Production: Value-Added 4 Fragmentation of Labor: Labor Relations 5 Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Part 5 Trade Union Networks, ngo Campaigns, Workers’ Agency Chapter 12 Transnational Solidarity Networks between Workers and Global Production Networks 1 ExChains Network 2 Network Rails without Borders 3 Conclusions Bibliography Chapter 13 Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Cocoa Chocolate Chain: Insights from Sustainability Certification in 1 Introduction 2 Research Approach 3 The Global Cocoa Chocolate Chain: Emergence, Sustainability Challenges and Certification as a Response 4 Evolution and Institutional Setting of Ghana’s Cocoa Sector 5 Case Study on One Major Cocoa Sustainability Certification Project in Ghana 6 Social and Institutional Effects of the Studied Certification Project 7 Conclusion: csr, Control over Production, and Local Development Perspectives Bibliography Chapter 14 On the (Re)Production of Informal Work in Argentina’s Auto Industry 1 Introduction 2 Theoretical Foundations: The Dialectics of Informal and Formal Labor 3 Argentina: Between Crisis and Progress 4 (Re)Production of Informal Work in Argentina’s Automobile Sector 4.1 Informality on the Plant Level 4.2 Household Level 5 Conclusion Bibliography Part 6 Conclusion Chapter 15 Global Labor and Labor Studies – Breaking the Chains 1 Commodity Chain Research: Approaching Labor 2 Labor-Oriented Commodity Chain Research: Sources of Inspiration 3 Labor as a Transnational Actor 4 Concluding Remarks: Theoretical-Epistemological Considerations Bibliography Index of Places, Persons, Companies and Institutions