EAN: 9783031273896

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY LABOUR CONTROL AND UNION A...

This book puts Indian garment workers and their organisations at the centre of the analysis.
Taking the Bangalore export-garment cluster as a case study  the book explores the conditions
that enable but also constrain the capacities of garment workers' unions to build collective
power vis-à-vis employers and thereby improve their conditions. Drawing on theoretical concepts
from labour geography  relational economic geography  and Global Production Network (GPN)
analysis  the book highlights  on the one hand  how the complex labour control regime in the
Bangalore export-garment cluster poses manifold challenges and constraints for workers' and
unions' collective agency. On the other hand  the book illustrates the various networked agency
strategies that local garment unions in Bangalore have developed over the years to overcome
these constraints by tapping into coalitional power resources from worker  consumer and labour
rights organisations in the Global North. This book is therefore highly relevant for economic
geographers and other scholars interested in dynamics of labour and development in GPNs as well
as for unionists and labour rights activists committed to improving working conditions in the
global garment industry. This is an open access book.

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