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dc.contributor.authorRainnie, Al
dc.contributor.authorHerod, A.
dc.contributor.authorMcGrath-Champ, S.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:43:58Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:43:58Z
dc.date.created2014-01-08T20:00:53Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationRainnie, Al and Herod, Andrew and McGrath-Champ, Susan. 2013. Global production networks, labour and small firms. Capital & Class. 37 (2): pp. 177-195.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24602
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0309816813481337
dc.description.abstract

The literature on global production networks (GPNs) and global commodity/value chains has generally conceptualised small firms as being at the bottom of the commodity chain hierarchy, and thus subordinate to larger firms. As a consequence, small firms and their employees are typically imagined to be fairly powerless to shape the structure of GPNs. By way of contrast, in this paper we argue that small firms and their employees are not lacking in the capacity to affect the way GPNs and commodity chains develop, but can in fact shape them in potentially significant ways. This recognition becomes evident if, instead of starting any analysis of small firms in GPNs with the governance structures of production networks or managerial strategies, we instead start the analysis with the organisation and control of the labour process in concrete settings, and tie this to broader understandings of uneven and combined development under capitalism.

dc.publisherSage journals
dc.subjectGlobal production networks
dc.subjectsmall firms
dc.subjectuneven and combined - development
dc.subjectagency
dc.subjectlabour
dc.titleGlobal production networks, labour and small firms
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume37
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage177
dcterms.source.endPage195
dcterms.source.titleCapital & Class
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