"Addresses some basic questions of development economics through a series of case studies examining upgradation and innovation by firms operating in GVCs in Asia"
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"Labor Rights and Multinational Production investigates the relationship between workers' rights and multinational production. Mosley argues that some types of multinational production, embodied in directly owned foreign investment, positively affect labor rights. However, other…
Mobilities of labour and capital in Asia
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This book explores the mobilities of capital and labour in the contemporary global economy, with a particular focus on Asia. Using an analytical framework around three dimensions related to the forms, institutions, and spatialities of mobility, the chapters use a variety of sub-…
"This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients' demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh. Using the 2013 Rana-Plaza disaster as…
"What are the forces that are driving firms and industries to globalize their operations? This volume explores how specific industries have organized their global operations through case studies of seven manufacturing industries: garments and textiles, automobiles and auto parts…
Manufacturing versus services: a misplaced debate -- Global production network: India and developing countries -- Financialisation in India: emerging trends in the corporate sector -- Hierarchies of capital and the architecture of value capture -- Informality: regime of accumula…
China and 'being Chinese' -- English in China : education policies, changing roles and Chinese identity -- 'English learning with Chinese characteristics' or "ti-yong dilemma"? -- Q methodology : a semi-quantitative approach to discourse analysis -- Q sort results : an overview …
Klappentext: "Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of improving transportation technology, expansion of intercultural contacts, and the emergence of a global economy. In eight …
"Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of improving transportation technology, expansion of intercultural contacts, and the emergence of a global economy. In eight case studies …
