Towards Better Work: Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Re-embedding the Market: Global Apparel Value Chains, Governance and Decent Work....Pages 17-39
Economic and Social Upgrading of Developing Countries in the Global Apparel Sector: Insights from Using a Parsimonious Measurement Approach....Pages 40-67
How ‘Fair’ Are Wage Practices along the Supply Chain? A Global Assessment....Pages 68-102
Regulating the ‘Wage Effort Bargain’ in Outsourced Apparel Production: Towards a Model....Pages 103-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
What Does ‘Fast Fashion’ Mean for Workers? Apparel Production in Morocco and Romania....Pages 127-147
Voting with Their Feet? Explaining High Turnover and Low Productivity in the Lao Garment Sector....Pages 148-171
Vulnerable Workers and Labour Standards (Non-)Compliance in Global Production Networks: Home-Based Child Labour in Delhi’s Garment Sector....Pages 172-190
Workers’ Perceptions of Compliance with Labour Standards: Assessing Opportunities and Challenges for Better Work in Lesotho’s Apparel Sector....Pages 191-211
Workers’ Agency and Power Relations in Cambodia’s Garment Industry....Pages 212-231
Factory Decisions to Become Noncompliant with Labour Standards: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia....Pages 232-250
Towards Better Work in Central America: Nicaragua and the CAFTA Context....Pages 251-275
Conclusions....Pages 276-285
Back Matter....Pages 286-318