Stephanie Barrientos

Gender and Work in Global Value Chains

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781108492317
• ISBN-10: 1108492312
• Artikelnr.: 56880492

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Barrientos teaches in the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. She has researched and published widely on gender, global production, employment, decent work, trade and labour standards, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, and ethical trade. She coordinated the Capturing the Gains Research Programme (with Professor Gary Gereffi) from 2008 to 2013 examining economic and social upgrading in global production networks. Stephanie has advised and provided training for a number of companies, NGOs and international organisations on issues concerning gender, agribusiness, ethical trade, decent work, and impact assessment.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of figures
List of abbreviations
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Retail shift and global sourcing
3. Gender patterns of work in global retail value chains
4. Global (re)production network analysis
5. Smallholder (dis)articulations: the cocoächocolate value chain
6. Mixed outcomes: downgrading and upgrading in African horticulture
7. Contested terrain: the limits of social compliance in Asian apparel
8. Upgrading strategies: innovation, skills and rights
9. Governance challenges: promoting gender-equitable value chains
10. Concluding reflections: future of work
References
Index.