Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: Evidence for European Employees

Nikulin, Dagmara; Wolszczak‐Derlacz, Joanna; Parteka, Aleksandra

doi:10.1177/0950017020986107

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“…First, while assessing labour conditions, we go beyond the purely monetary approach. The correlation between income and job satisfaction is far from perfect (Clark, 2015), and the socio-economic literature postulates the need to consider non-wage job dimensions in multi-dimensional labour quality analysis (Mira, 2021;Gallie et al 2012;Fleurbaey, 2015;Nikulin et al, 2021;OECD, 2017). We take a holistic, sociological approach (Ledic and Rubil, 2021) and propose a methodological innovation, i.e.…”

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confidence: 99%

How Digital Technology Affects Working Conditions in Globally Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from Europe

Parteka¹,

Wolszczak‐Derlacz

Nikulin³

2022

SSRN Journal

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How Digital Technology Affects Working Conditions in Globally Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from Europe

Parteka¹,

Wolszczak‐Derlacz

Nikulin³

2022

SSRN Journal

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“…While GVCs have created enormous opportunities for developing countries, nothing is an unmixed blessing. The opportunity to create jobs and income comes with the cost of employee exploitation, deprivation and a lack of employee rights (Nikulin et al, 2022), with women being the most vulnerable in these countries (Palpacuer, 2008). Another challenge comes from the powerful multinational global buyers to meet their strict demands and standards (Touboulic and Walker, 2016).…”

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Role of multinational buyers in ensuring worker voice through social dialogue: an exploratory study of the export oriented garment industry

Faroque,

Hoque,

Gani

2024

CPOIB

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Purpose This study aims to explore how multinational lead buyers can play an active role in ensuring worker voices in garment supplier factories where workers have limited space to raise their voices, and how buyers’ involvement increases the possibilities of worker voices mitigating barriers to social dialogues and enhancing mutual interests of buyers and workers in garment factories. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative research approach and multiple embedded case study method, this study considered buyer−supplier dyads as the unit of analysis, i.e. two multinational lead buyers and their four corresponding suppliers in the garment industry of Bangladesh. Focus group discussion and key informant in-depth interviews were techniques applied to collect factory-level data, and within and cross-case analysis techniques were applied to develop an overall understanding. Findings The results of this study reveal that the opportunities for workers to voice their concerns through social dialogue in garment supplier factories are limited due to various obstacles. Similarly, the role of multinational lead buyers in addressing these issues is found to be less than ideal. This study also shows that buyers can take short-term and long-term initiatives to ensure social dialogues. Moreover, this study presents how social dialogues can meet the expectations of multinational buyers and their garment suppliers. Research limitations/implications While this study focuses exclusively on the garment industry, similar scenarios also exist across a multitude of other industries. Thus, future research could extend this study’s scope to various sectors, providing a more comprehensive understanding of the general state of worker voices in Bangladesh. This study stands to make significant contributions to literature in the fields of global value chains, human relations and international business. It will pose critical perspectives on how upstream value chain suppliers can fortify worker rights through social dialogue, and elucidate the means and motives for lead buyers to play a more active role in this endeavour. Originality/value This study is distinct in its approach, integrating buyer−supplier roles to pave the way for enhanced worker voice opportunities through social dialogue in garment supplier factories.

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“…Studies of GVCs or GPNs, however, consider economic and organisational aspects rather than those related to the capital-labour relationship, such as working conditions ( Nikulin et al, 2021 ), work organisation, and economic and social risk distribution. One of the main criticisms of these perspectives is raised by the Labour Process Theory (LPT), which claims that they do not take sufficient account of work, both as object and subject of transformation.…”

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Reconceptualising Work and Employment in Complex Productive Configurations

D’Amours

Pogliaghi

Bellemare

et al. 2022

Work, Employment and Society

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Increasingly, work and employment take place within network firms, value chains, and other organisational forms extending control beyond the firm’s legal boundaries. This article proposes a model rooted in sociological concepts (work organisation, control, and risk) to analyse how social relations of work and employment are structured, and how inequalities are manufactured, in these organisational forms. First, we change the level of analysis, moving from firm to productive configuration. Second, we propose the notion of social labour relations, to grasp the relationship between workers and any entity likely to control their conditions of work and employment. Social labour relations articulates five dimensions that could be used to compare groups of workers who are participating in the same configuration. Third, we analyse how control is exercised by which entity/entities and over which social labour relation dimension. Such an understanding is essential to provide avenues for institutional renewal: namely to reconnect control and responsibility.

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Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: Evidence for European Employees

Cited by 7 publications

References 69 publications

How Digital Technology Affects Working Conditions in Globally Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from Europe

How Digital Technology Affects Working Conditions in Globally Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from Europe

Role of multinational buyers in ensuring worker voice through social dialogue: an exploratory study of the export oriented garment industry

Reconceptualising Work and Employment in Complex Productive Configurations

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