Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations

Andrea Komlosy, Ph.D. (1984), University of Vienna, is a professor at the Department for Economic and Social History, University of Vienna, where she is one of the Global History and Global Studies program coordinators. She has published widely on work and labor, migration, borders and uneven development. Goran Musić, Ph.D. (2016), European University Institute, is a postdoctoral associated researcher at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz. His fields of interest include global labor history, the comparative history of workers under state socialism, and the everyday history of socialist Yugoslavia.

• List of Maps, Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Chains of LaborConnecting Global Labor History and the Commodity Chain ParadigmAndrea Komlosy and Goran MusićPART 1Theorizing Commodity Chains, Labor Relations and Upgrading2 Cycles of Global Expansion and ContractionGlobal Commodity Chains and Labor Relations in Textiles and Garments from 17th to 21st CenturyAndrea Komlosy3 Soy ExpansionsChina, the USA and Brazil in ComparisonErnst Langthaler4 Who’s Upgrading? Class Differentiation and Labor Relations in Argentinian AgribusinessChristin BernholdPART 2Commodity Chains and Proto-industrialization in Early Modern Central Europe5 Grain, Flour, Beer, and LiquorCommodity Chains, Labor Relations and Economic Development in Habsburg Galicia, 1772–1918Klemens Kaps6 Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations in the Distribution of Central European Copper in the Eighteenth CenturyMiroslav LackoPART 3Commodity Chains in (Post-)Colonial Settings>/i>7 Labor as a BottleneckEntangled Commodity Chains of Sugar in Hawaii and California in the Late Nineteenth CenturyUwe Spiekermann8 Coolie Labor, Tea Planters and Transport in Colonial IndiaSantosh Hasnu9 Analyzing Structural Change and Labor Relations in Global Commodity ChainsThe Ethiopian Leather IndustryJan GrumillerPART 4Production Chains in (Post-)Socialist Eastern Europe10 Outward Processing Production and the Yugoslav Self-Managed Textile Industry in the 1980sGoran Musić11 Uneven Development in the European Automotive IndustryLabor Fragmentation and Value- Added Production in the Hungarian Semi-PeripheryTamás Gerőcs, Tibor T. Meszmann and András PinkaszPART 5Trade Union Networks, ngo campaigns, Workers’ Agency12 Transnational Solidarity Networks between Workers and Global Production NetworksJörg Nowak13 Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Cocoa Chocolate ChainInsights from sustainability certification in Ghana’s Cocoa CommunitiesFranziska Ollendorf14 On the (Re)Production of Informal Work in Argentina’s Auto IndustryStefan Schmalz and Johanna SittelPART 6Conclusion15 Global Labor and Labor Studies – Breaking the ChainsKarin FischerIndex of Places, Persons, Companies and Institutions