This chapter focuses on the role of labor for social upgrading in the Global South and discusses different analytical approaches such as governance modes of global value chains, labor process theory, the power resources approach, transnational labor governance, and national systems of industrial...

1. Introduction : dis-organizing labour in the clothing industry in the Asia Pacific / Vicki Crinis and Adrian Vickers -- 2. The fragmentation of the clothing and textile trade union movement in Malaysia / Vicki Crinis -- 3. Scrutinizing the effectiveness of trade unions in post-socialist...