Table Of ContentEdited by
Christina Teipen · Petra Dünhaupt ·
Hansjörg Herr · Fabian Mehl
Economic and Social
Upgrading in Global
Value Chains
Comparative Analyses,
Macroeconomic Effects,
the Role of Institutions
and Strategies for
the Global South
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value
Chains
· ·
Christina Teipen Petra Dünhaupt
·
Hansjörg Herr Fabian Mehl
Editors
Economic and Social
Upgrading in Global
Value Chains
Comparative Analyses, Macroeconomic Effects,
the Role of Institutions and Strategies
for the Global South
Editors
Christina Teipen Petra Dünhaupt
HWR Berlin (Berlin School HWR Berlin (Berlin School
of Economics and Law) of Economics and Law)
Berlin, Germany Berlin, Germany
Hansjörg Herr Fabian Mehl
HWR Berlin (Berlin School HWR Berlin (Berlin School
of Economics and Law) of Economics and Law)
Berlin, Germany Berlin, Germany
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Acknowledgements
This book is the result of the research project “Global Value Chains -
Economic and Social Upgrading”, which we have had the pleasure of
carryingoutatHWRBerlin(BerlinSchoolofEconomicsandLaw)since
December 2017 with the financial support of the Hans Böckler Foun-
dation (Project No. 2017-233-1). We would like to express our sincere
gratitudetothefoundationformakingthisresearchpossible.Weareespe-
cially grateful for the support that we received from our contact person
there: Marc Schietinger.
The idea for this research project arose much earlier, through discus-
sions at our Institute for International Political Economy (IPE Berlin),
with its decidedly interdisciplinary research profile. We found the idea of
linkingsociologicalresearchonindustrialrelationssystemsandtheglobal
value chain approach with macroeconomic perspectives from economics
and development economics to be a very attractive field of research.
In addition to the interdisciplinary theory linkages, our aim was to
learn more about the context and determinants of economic and social
upgrading through case studies in different countries and sectors.
We were very fortunate to cooperate with excellent international part-
ners for the case studies. Our sincere appreciation goes to them: Premilla
D’Cruz, Hugo Dias, Do Quynh Chi, Yan Dong, Anselmo dos Santos,
Denis Maracci Gimenez, Mengmeng Guo, Praveen Jha, José Dari Krein,
Dinesh Kumar, Shiyong Liu, Xiaoyan Liu, Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo,
Ernesto Noronha, Carlos Salas and Jin Zhang. Many thanks for the
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productiveandtrustfulcollaboration.Withoutthem,neithertheresearch
results nor this book would have come about. Some of them are also
contributors to this book. We also owe special thanks to Mark Anner,
Frank Hoffer, Stefanie Lorenzen and Martina Sproll, who have always
provided us with their expertise.
Inaddition,wewouldliketothankChristophScherrerandhisinterna-
tional research team as well as the International Center for Development
and Decent Work (ICDD) at the University of Kassel, Germany, for the
close collaboration and for carrying out the case studies on the agri-
cultural value chains. We would equally like to thank each of the other
authors of this book who entrusted us with their impressive research
results for this book.
We are grateful to our friends and companions who have inspired us
with their research and ideas at workshops and conferences, and who
have contributed to our success, for example, at the research project’s
kick-off workshop at HWR Berlin (Berlin School of Economics and
Law), Germany (1–3 March 2018); the XIII. Global Labour Univer-
sity Conference at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp),
Brazil, (6–11 August 2018); the XIV. Global Labour University Confer-
ence at HWR Berlin (Berlin School of Economics and Law), Germany
(27–29 March 2019); the International Labour Process Conference at
the University of Vienna, Austria (24–26 April 2019); the Global Value
Chains Network O at the Conference of the Society of the Advance-
ment of Socio-Economics [SASE] at The New School, New York City,
USA(27–29June2019);theConference“ContinuingtheStruggle:The
International Labour Organization (ILO) Centenary and the Future of
GlobalWorkerRights”atGeorgetownUniversity,Washington,DC,USA
(21–22November2019);theCongressoftheGermanSociologicalAsso-
ciation (DGS) (online, 14–24 September 2020) as well as the Annual
Conference of the German Industrial Relations Association (GIRA) in
Heidelberg, Germany (9 October 2020).
Last but not least, we would like to thank Lola Attenberger, Anne
Martin,ClareHollinsandLukasHandleyfortheirvaluableassistanceand
feedbackaswellastheirsupportwithproof-readingandmakinglinguistic
improvements to the chapters.
Berlin
July 2021
Contents
1 Introduction: Governance, Rent-Seeking
and Upgrading in Global Value Chains 1
Petra Dünhaupt, Hansjörg Herr, Fabian Mehl,
and Christina Teipen
Part I Interdisciplinary Theoretical
Contributions—Framing the Debate
2 Contemporary Globalisation and Value Systems:
What Gains for Developing Countries? 35
Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros
3 Global Value Chains—A Panacea for Development? 55
Petra Dünhaupt and Hansjörg Herr
4 Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains—The Role
of Labor and Industrial Relations 97
Christina Teipen and Fabian Mehl
5 Embeddedness of Power Relations in Global Value
Chains 121
Christoph Scherrer
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6 Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains
from a Perspective of Gendered and Intersectional
Social Inequalities 145
Martina Sproll
Part II Insights from Different National Sectors
7 Social Upgrading, a Mixed Bag: The Indian IT/ITES
Sector 173
Ernesto Noronha and Premilla D’Cruz
8 India’s Automobile and Textile Industries in Global
Value Networks: An Assessment 197
Praveen Jha and Dinesh Kumar
9 Collective Bargaining During and After Apartheid:
Economic and Social Upgrading in the Automobile
Global Value Chains in South Africa 227
Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo
10 Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value
Chains: The Automotive Industry in Brazil 259
Anselmo Luis dos Santos, José Dari Krein,
Denis Maracci Gimenez, and Hugo Dias
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 287
Do Quynh Chi
12 Foxconnisation of Automobile Manufacturing?
Production Networks and Regimes of Production
in the Electric Vehicle Industry in China 311
Boy Lüthje
13 Few Opportunities for Smallholders for Upgrading
in Agricultural Value Chains 335
Ismail Doga Karatepe and Christoph Scherrer
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Part III Strategic Consequences and Solutions from
Different Backgrounds
14 The Governance Challenges of Social Upgrading
in Apparel Global Value Chains in the Context
of a Sourcing Squeeze and the Covid-19 Pandemic 361
Mark Anner
15 Social Upgrading in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector
Since Rana Plaza: Why Some Governance Matters
More Than Others 385
Nora Lohmeyer, Elke Schüßler, and Naila Kabeer
16 China’s Leverage of Industrial Policy to Absorb
Global Value Chains in Emerging Industries 413
Anna Holzmann and Max J. Zenglein
17 New Business and Human Rights Laws—Support
for Social Upgrading? 437
Stefanie Lorenzen
18 Lessons of the Indonesian Freedom of Association
Protocol 467
Reingard Zimmer
19 From Corporate Social Responsibility Towards
Working Solution: A Comment By The Former
Executive Director of ‘Action, Collaboration,
Transformation’ (ACT) 485
Frank Hoffer
Part IV Conclusions and Outlook
20 Comparing National and Industry-Specific
Trajectories of Economic and Social Upgrading
as Well as Various Strategic Solutions 505
Petra Dünhaupt, Hansjörg Herr, Fabian Mehl,
and Christina Teipen
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21 Economic and Social Effects of the COVID-19
Pandemic and the Future of Global Value Chains 565
Petra Dünhaupt, Hansjörg Herr, Fabian Mehl,
and Christina Teipen
Index 593
