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"GPN are assembled to access the location advantages of network nodes and the technology, skills and know-how of a location"
Haggard, Ernst and Borrus, 2000 - Para 2
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"Neoliberal techniques are used to lead and control the conduct of individuals by making subjects responsible for actions, illness, risks and unemployment"
Lemke, 2002 - P.2
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"Theory of time-space compression"; "race to the bottom"
Harvey, 1989 - Para 3
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"Regions are of major strategic significance for extraordinarily wide diversity of industrial sectors"
Scott and Storper, 2003 - P.2
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"Focus of GPN is very much surrounding economic governance and hardly on the social relations fo labour, other than the hegemony of capital in the global and local economies"
Smith et al, 2002 - Conc
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1/2
Population of GS in formal paid employment
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"If workers become to expensive, the jobs will move elsewhere"
Freeman, 1995 - Para 3
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"Capital is relatively more mobile than labour"
Freeman, 1995 - Para 3
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"Responsibility cannot be attributed to one factor so therefore not one body is responsible"
Young, 2004 - Conc
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"GPN as an organisational arrangement , comprising of interconnected economic and non-interconnected economic factors, coordinated by a global lead firm producing goods and services across geographical locations for worldwide markets"
Coe + Yeung, 2015 - GPN Def - Intro
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Be wrong to suggest that there is no power over capital - Conc
Process of agglomeration and combination of local skills that produces most of the market supply - Civil Society
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Jobs in GPN of low skill so standards don't have to be high so there is a large pool of labour to choose from
If tehy don't like the working conditions then they can go and find another job - Para 3
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Highly competitive job market
Increased exploitation - Para 3
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Social Upgrading - Para 2
Ways in which workers can improve their standards of living through their job role
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Embeddedness - Para 2
Processes shaped by external factors: societal, network and territorial
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Neoliberal attitudes leads to increased personal autonomy
Increasing teh private standards but shifting responsibility onto workers rather than the company - P.2
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Raj - Reichart, 2012 - p.2
Foreign workers = increased casualisation of labour who are invisible in the eyes of the government
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GPNs are shaped by the network approach with corporate power being utilised or under-utilised based on the lead firms preference of CSR PR - Para 1
No global governance; MNCs can't force western H&S; choice for lead firms to take control over local skills is unethical;ability to get away with unethical practice due to decreased regulation
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Starmanns, 2011
Size of orders by teh lead firms makes smaller suppliers want to meet needs tehrefore owners exploit working conditions by employing more to satisfy demand
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UNISON Def of Working conditions
The factors influencing health and safety, security and working hours
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