TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Manufacturing suicide: The politics of a world factory
JO  - Chinese Sociological Review
A1  - Lin, T.-h.
A1  - Lin, Y.-l.
A1  - Tseng, W.-l.
SP  - 1
EP  - 32
VL  - 48
IS  - 1
N2  - 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2162-0555
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2015.1062346
ID  - ref1
ER  -