Labour governance in global production networks: Assessing labour standards in a new generation of public procurement legislation and trade agreements linked to market access into the European Union (LG-GPN)

该项目旨在通过理论和实证贡献来填补GPNs劳动力治理研究的空白。从理论上讲，该项目将通过独特的跨学科方法推进全球生产网络（GPNs）中的跨国劳动治理理论，该方法将GPN分析方法与政治学和劳动社会学中就业关系的跨国监管治理新兴理论相结合。这一跨学科的综合理论框架将对GPN、政治学和劳动社会学的文献做出独特的贡献。从经验上看，它将通过研究新一代公共采购立法和最新的欧盟自由贸易协定中的劳工条款来促进文献，这些条款尚未得到广泛研究。该项目在服装和电子工业的比较分析方面也是独一无二的，这在关于劳工治理的文献中很少进行。最后，是对亚太地区新兴经济体——越南——进行研究的相关性。与中国和印度等较大的新兴经济体相比，越南的研究相对不足。

The project aims to fill gaps in research on labour governance in GPNs through theoretical and empirical contributions. Theoretically, the project will advance theory of transnational labour governance in global production networks (GPNs) through a unique interdisciplinary approach that combines the GPN analytical approach with emerging theories in transnational regulatory governance from political science and employment relations in labour sociology. The combined inter-disciplinary theoretical framework will make unique contributions to the literatures of GPN, political science, and labour sociology. Empirically, it will contribute to literature by examining labour provisions in a new generation of public procurement legislation and a latest EU FTA which have not been extensively researched. The project is also unique in its comparative analysis of the clothing and electronics industries, which is rarely conducted in the literature on labour governance. Finally, is the relevance of conducting research on an emerging economy in the Asia Pacific region - Vietnam - which is relatively under-researched compared to larger rising economies such as China and India.