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National capitalisms, global production networks : fashioning the value chain in the UK, USA, and Germany / Christel Lane and Jocelyn Probert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing trade--United States.
- Clothing trade.
- Clothing trade--Great Britain.
- Clothing trade--Germany.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2009
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Firms in the clothing industry engage in global sourcing and operate in global markets. Their global production networks have often been subject to scrutiny as the power relationships between buyer firms in developed countries and supplier firms in developing countries raise issues concerned with 'fast fashion', the role of brands, labour standards in developing countries, job losses among the most vulnerable workers in Europe and the US, and the growing differentiation within thebloc of developing countries between the least developed and fast developers, such as China and India.This book ana
- Contents:
- Contents; Tables and Figures; List of Boxes; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical Frameworks: The Varieties of Capitalism Approach and the Global Value Chains/Global Production Networks Framework; 3. The Clothing Industry in the USA, UK, and Germany; 4. Fashion Retail; 5. Global and Regional Institutions and the Regulation of Trade; 6. Shifting Global Networks and the Development of a New International Hierarchy of Firms and Supplier Countries; 7. The Global Production Networks of US, UK, and German firms; 8.The Clothing Industries in Supplier Countries: Buyer-Supplier Relations (1)
- 9. The Clothing Industries in Supplier Countries: Buyer-Supplier Relations (2)10. The Regulation of Labour Standards/Rights in Supplier Countries: The Role of Firms, Nation States, and International Organizations; 11. Conclusions; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612199646
- 1-282-19964-1
- 0-19-156876-7
- OCLC:
- 430934256
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