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480 - Section on Labor and Labor Movements Paper Session. Work and Workers Across Global Value Chains
Mon, August 18, 4:30 to 6:10pm, TBASession Submission Type: Paper Session
Abstract
Globalization has prompted widespread concern for labor standards as supply chains are diversified and spread around the world. Value chains analyses have been key to understanding the power dynamics of different firms within these chains. This panel explores the implications of these power dynamics for workers’ rights, standards, and working conditions in a variety of industries and countries around the world.
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Your Paper has been Outsourced: How Publishers Sweat Labor to Streamline Science - Jeffrey J. Sallaz, University of Arizona
Suicides and Rebels in a World Factory: How the Global Fragmented Despotism Works in Foxconn - Thung-hong Lin, Academia Sinica
Draying and Picking: Precarious Labor in the Logistics Supply Chain - David D. Jaffee, University of North Florida
Keeping the Workers Clean: Disciplining the Sanitation of Indigenous Farm Workers in Mexico - Marcos F. Lopez, Bowdoin College