Journal
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 111-137Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbx013
Keywords
Local labour control regime; labour exploitation; disciplining; labour question; global production networks; Z1; N57; J50
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This article advocates the centrality of labour control to understand the constitutive role of labour and production within global production networks (GPNs). It draws from the global value chain/GPN literature, labour process theory and agrarian political economy to examine the architecture of labour control in the Senegalese-European horticultural GPN through an analysis of local labour control regimes that are constituted at different scales (global, national and local). It frames labour control through the interplay of labour exploitation and disciplining, identifying the different actors, institutions and dynamics shaping labour control and links places of production to broader spaces of labour control. The strong role of the Senegalese state indicates that labour control is closely connected to a broader 'labour question' that revolves around the productive/reproductive activities of households and gender subordination. The historical analysis shows the path-dependent, dialectical nature of labour control and labour resistance, and importantly, their dependency on broader production and reproduction relations.
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