Making the connections: bringing skill formation into global value chain analysis

Ramírez, Paulina; Rainbird, Helen

doi:10.1177/0950017010380641

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“…This analysis confirms the complex outcomes of decisions to restructure knowledge intensive work across borders and that employee relations are only rarely a driver of such processes, (Ali-Yrkko¨and Deschryvere, 2008;Jalette, 2009;Kyoung-Hee and Levy, 2010;Ramirez and Rainbird, 2010). However, the findings indicate that over time ER can become a factor codetermining restructuring of high-skilled jobs.…”

Section: Cross Sector Comparison and Conclusionsupporting

confidence: 81%

“…This framework allows a consideration of the power position of the company and its relationship to the governance of the workforce across the chain (Gereffi et al, 2005;Jackson et al, 2013;Lakhani et al, 2013). Thus, focus is on ERs at a certain 'node' in the GVC (Gereffi et al 2005;Ramirez and Rainbird, 2010;Robinson and Rainbird, 2013) -namely within the lead firm.…”

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International company restructuring and the effects on high-skilled employees in lead companies

Hansen

2016

Competition & Change

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International company restructuring involving knowledge intensive jobs causes increasing concern about the effect on the globalization of high-skilled employees. Drawing on case studies in four Danish-based companies, this article argues that high-skilled employees in lead companies are rarely insulated from international restructuring processes. However, effects on wage and working conditions vary dependent on the motivation for restructuring, and as companies learn to take advantage of pools of skilled employees abroad. Continued international restructuring appear to challenge the insulation of high-skilled workers over time. Further, the article shows that knowledge intensive companies increasingly apply relational global value chain governance with multidirectional consequences for wage and working conditions among the high-skilled employees.

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Section: Cross Sector Comparison and Conclusionsupporting

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International company restructuring and the effects on high-skilled employees in lead companies

Hansen

2016

Competition & Change

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“…The second set of ideas relates to global value chains. It connects the sociology of work to economic geography and other fields by addressing the division of labour along the whole of a value chain (Ramirez and Rainbird, 2010). Third, the concept of intersectionality, meaning the connections between class, gender, and ethnicity, came into use; it featured in four papers in Work, Employment and Society, in the period 2008-12, and none previously.…”

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The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain

Holmwood¹,

Scott²

2014

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Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataThe Palgrave handbook of sociology in Britain / edited by John Holmwood, John Scott. pages cm Summary: "British sociology has been central to the evolution of the field, playing a key role in the establishment of the discipline internationally and in the professionalization of the subject within the academy. This Handbook, drawing together leading specialists from across the subject, provides a comprehensive history of the discipline within Britain and demonstrates the continuing influence of British sociological thinking globally. Addressing key moments in the development of sociology, this Handbook examines its 18th century origins in Scottish thought, 19th century evolutionism, the impact of the end of empire in the 20th century, the role of exiles, the rise of feminism and the implications of the most recent Government policies toward universities. The volume examines the institutionalization of sociology through the creation of departments, the development of research methods, the writing of textbooks and the creation and influence of the book series, the International Library of Sociology. Further, individual chapters discuss key topics of sociological study in Britain such as class, race and ethnicity, religion, the sociology of the body, cultural studies, and criminology, and its relation to other fields of research such as poverty, social work and the humanities. Challenging received ideas about the discipline and recovering lost histories this one-stop overview is an essential reference guide to the growth of sociology and the sociological imagination."-Provided by publisher.

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“…Edwards, 2005;Gleadle and Cornelius, 2008;Ramirez and Rainbird, 2010). These categories are not exhaustive and are contributions to a bigger picture.…”

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Financialization and the workplace: extending and applying the disconnected capitalism thesis

Thompson

2013

Work, Employment and Society

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The global financial crisis has brought discussion of financialization to the fore. Yet, what is notable is the extent to which the dysfunctional micro-economic consequences of financialization at firm level have gone largely unremarked and unchanged. By revisiting and renewing the disconnected capitalism thesis, this article seeks to rectify the omission of a focus on financialization and the workplace and develops a complex and nuanced bigger picture that explores in some detail changes in accumulation, corporate, work and employment domains. The dual objective is thus to understand the dynamics and drivers of such changes and to identify the extent to which financialization has shaped them. In identifying patterns of connection and disconnection across and within domains, a recurrent theme concerns financialization interacting with, accelerating and exacerbating longer term trends such as labour market insecurity, externalization and internationalization.

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Making the connections: bringing skill formation into global value chain analysis

Cited by 26 publications

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International company restructuring and the effects on high-skilled employees in lead companies

International company restructuring and the effects on high-skilled employees in lead companies

The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain

Financialization and the workplace: extending and applying the disconnected capitalism thesis

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