Labour Regimes and Global Production

Elena Baglioni is Reader in Global Supply Chain Management and Sustainability at Queen Mary University of London. Liam Campling is Professor of International Business and Development at Queen Mary University of London. Neil M. Coe is Professor of Economic Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. Adrian Smith is Professor of Management at University of Sussex Business School.

A comprehensive analysis of labour regimes … explores the intellectual development of labour regime concepts across various disciplines. The book also offers new insights into the work conditions of global production chains from Amazon’s warehouses and its logistic chains in the United States, to industrial production networks in the Global South, and to the dormitory town of migrant workers in Czechia.

• 1. Labour regimes and global productionElena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe and Adrian SmithPart I: Antecedents2. Gendered labour regimes in global productionJennifer Bair3. Grounding labour regime analysis in agrarian political economyJens Lerche4. Modalities of labour: restructuring, regulation, regimeJamie PeckPart II: Theoretical and methodological developments5. Exploitation and labour regimes: production, circulation, social reproduction, ecologyElena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Alessandra Mezzadri, Satoshi Miyamura, Jonathan Pattenden and Benjamin Selwyn6. Doing labour regimes research with large-scale surveys in AfricaCarlos Oya7. Labour regimes and embodied labourSébastien Rioux8. The continent of labour and uneven development: the making of transnational labour regimes in East AsiaDae-oup Chang9. Uneven despotization: labour regimes in global productionStefanie Hürtgen10. Labour regimes, social reproduction, and boundary-drawing strategies across the arc of US world hegemonyKevan Harris and Phillip A. HoughPart III: Doing labour regime analysis11. National labour control regimes and worker resistance in global production networksMark Anner12. Transnational private regulation and labour regimes in Indonesia and ChinaTim Bartley and Neil M. Coe13. International civil society organisations and the temporalities of labour regimes: a case study from the Bangladeshi apparel industryShyamain Wickramasinghe14. Labour regimes and trade-based integrationLiam Campling, Adrian Smith and Mirela Barbu15. The world is a warehouse: racialised labour regimes and the rise of Amazon’s global logistics empireJake Alimahomed-Wilson16. The dormitory regime revisited: time in transnational capitalist productionRutvica Andrijasevic17. "Just-in-time" migrant workers in Czechia: racialisation and dormitory labour regimesHannah SchlingConclusion: mapping a research agenda for labour regime analysisElena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe and Adrian Smith