Promoting the associational power of workers in globalized production networks: A missed opportunity.

The author discusses the capacity of labour NGOs to strengthen the associational power of Chinese workers in globalized production networks by using their leverage to pressure multinationals into launching programmes to elect workers' committees in factories. Based on an empirical survey conducted b...

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Published in:International Labour Review Vol. 162; no. 1; pp. 99 - 122
Main Author: SÉHIER, Clément
Format: Article
Published: Open Library of Humanities Mar2023
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        affil: Institut Mines‐Télécom Nord‐Europe, Lille University, Lille Centre for Studies and Sociological and Economic Research (Clersé), Lille University and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (UMR 8019)
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        China
        Collective action
        Social responsibility of business
        Chinese people
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          Collective action
          Social responsibility of business
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          Chinese people
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        agency
        associational power
        corporate social responsibility
        globalized production networks
        non‐governmental organization
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        worker empowerment
        agency
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        globalized production networks
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      ab: The author discusses the capacity of labour NGOs to strengthen the associational power of Chinese workers in globalized production networks by using their leverage to pressure multinationals into launching programmes to elect workers' committees in factories. Based on an empirical survey conducted between 2012 and 2019 in southern China, he shows that such programmes helped to raise workers' awareness of collective action and strengthen their agency, but that they ground to a halt in the face of the structural inequality of the production system, the lack of institutional protection for elected representatives and a hardening regime.
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