Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks
Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks
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DOI：
10.1093/jeg/lbn008
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发表时间：
2008-05
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
A. Cumbers;Corinne Nativel;P. Routledge
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作者：
A. Cumbers;Corinne Nativel;P. Routledge
经济地理中全球生产网络(GPN)视角的发展为区域、国家和公司行为者之间的社会和政治关系带来了有价值的见解，有助于理解初级商品生产中的价值获取过程。然而，到目前为止，很少有人谈到劳动力是全球经济的积极组成部分，而不是重组进程的被动受害者。在这篇文章中，我们试图通过以下方式纠正这种情况：第一，对全球劳工网络中的劳工机构和阶级斗争在塑造全球经济中的持续作用进行理论化；第二，探索工会在这一框架内的地位。通过对ICEM(国际化工、能源、采矿和普通工人联合会)的案例研究，我们展示了工会战略是如何通过工会内部和与其他社会行为者之间有争议的社会空间关系而演变的。在全球范围内促进跨国劳工权利和改善就业条件是大多数工会行为者的愿望，但这一愿望不可避免地受到与更广泛的资本积累过程有关的不同主体立场的影响。
The development of a global production networks (GPN) perspective in economic geography has brought valuable insights into the social and political relations between regional, state and corporate actors in understanding processes of value capture in the production of commodities. However, to date, little has been said about labour as an active constituent of the global economy, rather than the passive victim of restructuring processes. In this article, we seek to rectify this situation by, first, theorizing the agency of labour in GPNs and the continuing role of class struggle in shaping the global economy, and second, exploring the positionality of unions within this framework. Through a case study of ICEM (the International Chemical, Energy, Mining and General Workers Federation), we show how union strategies evolve through contested socio–spatial relations both within unions themselves and with other social actors. Promoting transnational labour rights and improved employment conditions at the global scale is an aspiration of most union actors, but this is inevitably compromised by different subject positions in relation to broader processes of capital accumulation.