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International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: Strawberry Commodity Networks
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International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: Strawberry Commodity Networks
Current price: $160.00
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International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: Strawberry Commodity Networks
Current price: $160.00
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Since international trade in strawberries began three decades ago, the sector’s growth has paralleled the rise of retailer dominance of food sales. Highlighting inequitable gains from the sales boom, workers have organized mass strikes, boycotts, and pressure campaigns. The divergent results ranged from ephemeral acknowledgments of workers’ concerns to the establishment of union collective bargaining and steadily improving working conditions.
Grounded in extensive research, the book provides fresh analytical approaches to understanding the social dimensions of international trade and workplace bargaining power. The book unpacks the relationship between poor working conditions and economic growth by applying a new method, international commodity network analysis, which builds on prior global supply chain approaches. It explains differences in workers’ initiatives to improve employment conditions by identifying the process of dignity in the creation of solidarity.