Citation

Lin TH, Lin YL, Tseng WL. Chinese Sociological Review 2016; 48(1): 1-32.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016)

DOI

10.1080/21620555.2015.1062346

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article examines how global value chains (GVCs) have shaped a world factory regime, based on the case study of the Foxconn group in Shenzhen, China. We identify three features that characterize a world factory regime: the GVCs' impacts, the fragmented structure of corporate governance, and workplace despotism, and propose a concept of " global fragmented despotism" to explain changing labor conditions, workers' suicides and resistance uncovered in Foxconn since 2010. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Language: en