Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains, Gebunden

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Governance, Rent-seeking and Upgrading in Global Value Chains.- Part I: Interdisciplinary Theoretical Contributions - Framing The Debate.- Chapter 2. Contemporary Globalization and Value Systems: What Gains for Developing Countries?.- Chapter 3. Global Value Chains - a Panacea for Development?.- Chapter 4. Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains - the Role of Labor and Industrial Relations.- Chapter 5. Embeddedness of Power Relations in Global Value Chains.- Chapter 6. Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains from a Perspective of Gendered and Intersectional Social Inequalities.- Part II: Insights From Different National Sectors.- Chapter 7. Social Upgrading, a Mixed Bag: The Indian IT Software Sector.- Chapter 8. India's Automobile and Textile Industries in Global Value Networks: An Assessment.- Chapter 9. Collective Bargaining During and After Apartheid: Economic and Social Upgrading in the Automobile Global Value Chains in South Africa.- Chapter 10. Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains: the Automotive Industry in Brazil.- Chapter 11. Locked Between Buyer-driven Global Value Chains and State Control: An Analysis of the Stagnation of Economic and Social Upgrading in the Garment and Electronics Industries in Vietnam.- Chapter 12. Foxconnisation of Automobile Manufacturing? Production Networks and Regimes of Production in the Electric Vehicle Industry in China.- Chapter 13. Few Opportunities for Smallholders for Upgrading in Agricultural Value Chains.- Part III: Strategic Consequences And Solutions From Different Backgrounds.- Chapter 14. The Governance Challenges of Social Upgrading in Apparel Global Value Chains in the Context of a Sourcing Squeeze and the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 15. Social upgrading in the Bangladeshi garment sector since Rana Plaza: Why some governance matters more than others.- Chapter 16. China's Leverage of Industrial Policy to Absorb Global Value Chains in Emerging Industries.- Chapter 17. New Business and Human Rights Laws - Support for Social Upgrading?.- Chapter 18. Lessons of the Indonesian Freedom of Association Protocol.- Chapter 19. From Corporate Social Responsibility Towards Working Solutions: A Comment by the Former Managing Director of "Action, Collaboration, Transformation". Part IV: Conclusions And Outlook.- Chapter 20. Comparing national and industry-specific trajectories of economic and social upgrading as well as various strategic solutions.- Chapter 21. Economic and Social Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Global Value Chains.