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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1137410353 ISBN 13: 9781137410351

Publisher: Palgrave, 2015

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Authors

Kirsty Newsome is Reader in Employment Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Philip Taylor is Professor of Work and Employment Studies 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.

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137410353
• ISBN 13: 9781137410351
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Newsome Kirsty