Purpose – This paper aims to examine the relationship between economic upgrading (implementing higher value-added activities) and social upgrading (improvements in workers’ rights and employment) of supplier firms in global value chains (GVCs) governed by multinational enterprises (MNEs)....

Of George Orwell’s four motivations to write, Wilson’s autobiography falls firmly into two – the historical impulse: a desire “to see things as they are” for the sake of posterity, and the political: a desire “to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society that they should...