Red Globe Press Putting Labour in its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains: 5 (Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment)

Part of the Comparative Work and Employment Relations series, Putting Labour in its Place is an edited collection, containing cutting-edge research and theoretical innovation on global value chains, the nature of work and labour process theory. It addresses the different processes around the world that each add value to the goods or services being produced; whilst also analysing the idea of labour itself and the exploitation surrounding it.Key benefits:- Written by leading international academics.- A landmark text combining the growing interest in global value chains with labour process theory.- Provides up-to-date critical analysis of global developments. Book Description Written by leading international academics, this book contains cutting-edge research and theoretical innovation on global commodity chains, global value chains, and global production networks From the Back Cover Part of the Comparative Work and Employment Relations series, Putting Labour in its Place is an edited collection, containing cutting-edge research and theoretical innovation on global value chains, the nature of work and labour process theory. It addresses the different processes around the world that each add value to the goods or services being produced; whilst also analysing the idea of labour itself and the exploitation surrounding it.Key benefits:• Written by leading international academics• A landmark text combining the growing interest in global value chains with labour process theory• Provides up-to-date critical analysis of global developments About the Author Kirsty Newsome is Reader in Employment Relations at the University of Sheffield and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures at the University of Leicester, UK.Phil Taylor is Professor of Work and Employment Studies in the Department of Human Resource Management and also Vice Dean International in Strathclyde Business School at the University of Strathclyde, UK.Jennifer Bair is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.Al Rainnie is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Business School, University of Western Australia, Australia.