The Geo-political Economy of Global Production Networks

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 154-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Glassman
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks

scholarly journals Governmentalizing Gramsci: Topologies of power and passive revolution in Cambodia’s garment production network

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 2183-2202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Arnold ◽  
Martin Hess
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Private Governance ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Cultural Political Economy ◽  
State Capital ◽  
Multiple Power

This article takes a fresh look at the multiple power relations between state, capital and labor in global production networks. Moving beyond debates about public vs. private governance, it brings together Antonio Gramsci’s concepts of hegemony and the integral state with Michel Foucault’s concepts of governmentality and the “dipositive” in order to analyze the power topologies that permeate global production networks. Using the Cambodian garment production network as example, we scrutinize the discourse of “decent work” and “ethical manufacturing,” exemplified by the Better Factories Cambodia program, and discuss the implications for labor agency, power and political contestation. The article concludes with reflections on “governmentalizing Gramsci,” thinking power topologically and the value of a cultural political economy in the analysis of global production networks.

A Substantive Theory of Transnational Governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Bartley
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Standards ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Private Regulation ◽  
Substantive Theory ◽  
Private Authority ◽  
Differential Performance

Social scientists have theorized the rise of transnational private authority, but knowledge about its consequences remains sparse and fragmented. This chapter builds from a critique of “empty spaces” imagery in several leading paradigms to a new theory of transnational governance. Rules and assurances are increasingly flowing through global production networks, but these flows are channeled and reconfigured by domestic governance in a variety of ways. Abstracting from the case studies in this book, a series of theoretical propositions specify the likely outcomes of private regulation, the influence of domestic governance, the special significance of territory and rights, and several ways in which the content of rules shapes their implementation. As such, this theory proposes an explanation for differences across places, fields, and issues, including the differential performance of labor and environmental standards.

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