Where the Low Road and the High Road Meet: Flexible Employment in Global Value Chains |
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Authors: | Caroline E. Arnold |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Political Science , Brooklyn College , Brooklyn, NY, USA carnold@brooklyn.cuny.edu |
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Abstract: | This article examines production organisation and employment patterns in the export-orientated centres of Denizli (Turkey) and Tiruppur (India). It argues that Denizli and Tiruppur's involvement in global value chains has resulted in segmented production patterns and insecure employment arrangements. Larger producers use sub-contractors as a strategy to mediate the instability of international contracts and pass the uncertainty in their global linkages on to smaller firms and their workforces. Such flux, then, has become a regularised feature of manufacturing work within the ranks of sub-contractors. Employers have solidified these production arrangements by recruiting rural and female workers. The article sheds light on the relationship between new production forms and rising employment insecurity. |
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Keywords: | Apparel global value chains labour employment conditions India Turkey |
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