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Manufacturing Informality: Global Production Networks and Informalized Labour Regimes in Europe's Peripheries

Manufacturing Informality: Global Production Networks and Informalized Labour Regimes in Europe's Peripheries

Bagnardi, Francesco

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 8869774872
ISBN13: 9788869774874
Publisher: Mimesis
Published: Dec 21 2024
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

Informalized employment persists and emerges in new forms in advanced and developing economies alike despite its widespread costs in terms of precariousness, unfair competition, and loss of revenues and state legitimacy. To investigate the mechanisms of such persistence, this book reconceptualizes informalization as a tool of labour control and therefore as the result of a continuous negotiation between workers and employers at the workplace level. Theoretically, the analysis draws on a combination of Global Production Networks (GPNs) studies and Labour Process Theory (LPT); empirically, it focuses on garment-footwear GPNs in (Southern) Italy and Albania and draws on extensive, multi-sited fieldwork, interviews and focus groups with workers, unionists, managers, labour inspectors, NGO representatives, policymakers, and other stakeholders.

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