Professor of Politics Gale Raj-Reichert co-authors paper on social upgrading in the global value chain

Professor of Politics Gale Raj-Reichert has co-authored a paper with Kristoffer Marslev and Cornelia Staritz titled “Rethinking Social Upgrading in the Global Value Chains: Worker Power, State-Labour Relations and Intersectionality.”  It was published by Development and Change on behalf of the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague on February 22, 2022. 

The paper analysis case studies of apparel workers in Cambodia and Vietnam, as part of global value chains, to understand how worker strikes alter the power dynamic between worker and the state and lead to improvements in working conditions. The authors “build on critiques of the concept of social upgrading in global value chain (GVC) research.” By arguing that worker power is shaped by state–labor relations and the intersectionality of worker identities linked to gender, household and community relations.

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Post Date: 02-28-2022