The social foundations of global production networks: towards a global political economy of child labour

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Phillips ◽  
Resmi Bhaskaran ◽  
Dev Nathan ◽  
C. Upendranadh
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Social Foundations ◽  
The Social

Crime and the Global City

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharyne Mitchell ◽  
Key MacFarlane
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Global City ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Labor Exploitation ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Control

In recent years social scientists have been interested in the growth and transformation of global cities. These metropolises, which function as key command centers in global production networks, manifest many of the social, economic, and political tensions and inequities of neoliberal globalization. Their international appeal as sites of financial freedom and free trade frequently obscures the global city underbelly: practices of labor exploitation, racial discrimination, and migrant deferral. This chapter explores some of these global tensions, showing how they have shaped the strategies and technologies behind urban crime prevention, security, and policing. In particular, the chapter shows how certain populations perceived as risky become treated as pre-criminals: individuals in need of management and control before any criminal behavior has occurred. It is demonstrated further how the production of the pre-criminal can lead to dispossession, delay, and detention as well as to increasing gentrification and violence.

scholarly journals Für einen labour turn in der Umweltbewegung

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (189) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Pye
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Ecological Landscape

Oliver Pye: For a labour turn in the environmental justice movement. Struggles over the social relations of nature and strategies for social-ecological transformation. This article discusses struggles in the social relations of nature and how these relate to strategies of socialecological transformation and calls for a labour turn in the environmental and climate justice movement. Taking the rapid changes to the social-ecological landscape of the Kapuas River in Indonesia as a starting point, it shows how this “accumulation by dispossession” is connected to a “corporate food regime” that is embedded within global “postfordist relations of nature”. I then argue that the global production networks linking appropriation to exploitation should themselves be viewed as alienated steps in the social metabolism with nature. Struggles against accumulation by dispossession need to connect to the labour movement, which holds the key to overcome the alienated work that lies at the heart of society’s alienation with nature.

A Global Political Economy of Care

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Yeates
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Organisation Of Care ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

Care is an important analytical concept in social policy because of what its social organisation reveals about social formations and the nature of welfare states. To date, social policy analyses of care have focused on the social (re)organisation of care within nation states, which are largely treated as ‘sealed’ entities. Consequently these analyses neglect to examine the impact of transnational processes on the socio-organisational shifts observed. This article outlines the contours of a global political economy (GPE) of care with a view to elucidating the transnational dimensions to care restructuring. It focuses in particular on domestic care labour because of the extensive internationalisation of domestic services and its significance for the social relations of production and the division of labour. The discussion reflects on analytical issues for the academic study of social policy and care raised by a GPE approach.

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