Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains : Comparative Analyses, Macroeconomic Effects, the Role of Institutions and Strategies for the Global South

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.