In debt to the time-bank: the manipulation of working time in Indian garment factories and ‘working dead horse’

Jenkins, Jean; Blyton, Paul

doi:10.1177/0950017016664679

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“…As formal representation through unions is suppressed in many sourcing countries, Figure 2. Conceptualizing multi-level political CSR [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com] more research is also needed to understand representation by non-unionised actors, such as informal labour (Jenkins and Blyton, 2017;Kaine and Josserand, 2018) and marginalised communities (Banerjee, 2018).…”

Section: Towards a Research Agenda Of Multi-level Political Csrmentioning

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Political CSR at the Coalface – The Roles and Contradictions of Multinational Corporations in Developing Workplace Dialogue

Reinecke

Donaghey

2020

J Management Studies

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While political CSR scholarship has focused on the role of dialogue between MNCs and civil society actors at the transnational level in creating global governance standards, we seek to understand how political CSR might play out at the 'coalface' where labour rights violations occur. We draw on insights from Industrial Democracy to examine how political CSR may be extended to enable democratic processes at the workplace level. Studying the introduction of workplace dialogue in Bangladesh apparel factories, we highlight how MNCs leverage their position as lead actors in the supply chain in three ways: as guarantors, capacity-builders and enforcers of workplace dialogue. Our findings also show that dialogue reveals dialectical tensions emerging from the structured antagonism of the supply chain relationship. Our contribution focuses on understanding how MNCs may enable deliberative spaces in their supply chain, but also how this is likely to change the nature of pCSR.

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Section: Towards a Research Agenda Of Multi-level Political Csrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political CSR at the Coalface – The Roles and Contradictions of Multinational Corporations in Developing Workplace Dialogue

Reinecke

Donaghey

2020

J Management Studies

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“…Examples of transgressions are legion and appear in tier one firms with relatively close connections to the lead firm just as much as in second and third tier workplaces further down the supply chain (e.g. Anner 2019; Hammer and Plugor 2019; Jenkins 2020a,b; Jenkins and Blyton 2017; Kuruvilla et al . 2020; Mezzadri 2014).…”

Section: Implementation Of Standards and Rules And The Corporation's mentioning

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Uneven Development, Uneven Response: The Relentless Search for Meaningful Regulation of GVCs

Morris

Jenkins

Donaghey

2020

Brit J Industrial Rel

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The regulation of employment in global value chains (GVCs) is a story of the interaction of corporation and state in transnational space, where uneven international development has allowed the commodification and exploitation of international labour. Global standards are well articulated by bodies such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UN. We know what ‘decent work’ should look like as well as what all workers should enjoy as basic employment and human rights. Yet, internationally, the different mechanisms of private and public regulation fail at the point of implementation and across the world we see no fundamental shift in the condition of labour in terms of its capacity for social or economic upgrading. This article examines the regulatory mechanisms, and outcomes of regulation, of industrial relations in GVCs. It commends a future research agenda to illuminate the interaction between different sources of standards and rules and the complexities of intersecting private and public regulation, in the pursuit of enforceable, meaningful regulation of work and employment in international supply chains.

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“…Still, this system is not free of tensions: in the same way as Cunnison's workers could not achieve their target earnings when there was less work 'going around', today's hourly paid workers often find it difficult to earn above the poverty line if they are told to stay at home whenever their factory is low on orders. Rather than through a debt relation, as in Jenkins and Blyton's (2017) and Cunnison's (1966) cases, the extraction of labour in fast fashion is based on the link between precarious employment (mixing formal and informal employment) and welfare payments. This gives rise to complex 'games' around wage formation, welfare and taxation on the part of both employers and workers.…”

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Disconnecting Labour? The Labour Process in the UK Fast Fashion Value Chain

Hammer

Plugor

2019

Work, Employment and Society

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This article focuses on the interlinkages between the labour process and global value chains. It draws on the renewed growth in UK apparel manufacturing, specifically within the fast fashion value chain, and asks how value chain requirements are translated into the labour process as well as how the latter enables quick response manufacturing. The case study shows how buyer-lead firms engender accelerated capital circuits of fast fashion which rely on an increased segmentation of manufacturers and workers, the elimination of unproductive spaces in the labour process, and a further rise in the informalisation and precarity of labour. The article demonstrates a strategic disconnection within the fast fashion value chain: upstream manufacturers are only able to satisfy lead firms’ economic and operational standards if they disconnect – informalise – labour from the latter’s ‘ethical’ standards.

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In debt to the time-bank: the manipulation of working time in Indian garment factories and ‘working dead horse’

Cited by 23 publications

References 23 publications

Political CSR at the Coalface – The Roles and Contradictions of Multinational Corporations in Developing Workplace Dialogue

Political CSR at the Coalface – The Roles and Contradictions of Multinational Corporations in Developing Workplace Dialogue

Uneven Development, Uneven Response: The Relentless Search for Meaningful Regulation of GVCs

Disconnecting Labour? The Labour Process in the UK Fast Fashion Value Chain

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