TY - JOUR
T1 - THE GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN
T2 - Value for Whom? The Soccer Ball Industry in China and Pakistan
AU - Xue, Hong
AU - Chan, Anita
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - The global value chain concept has become one of the most influential frameworks used in the study of globalization. The paradigm, however, is deficient in explicating the exploitative nature of global value chain governance. Based on a study of soccer ball production in China and Pakistan, this article analyzes global production from three perspectives: the role of the state in shaping the host countries' mode of production and legal framework, the issue of how surplus value is created and distributed, and the use of child labor or prison labor to remain competitive in the chain. The article shows, in the case of Pakistan, how a country using a lower-labor-costs strategy to retain a place in a global value chain allows its workers to be exploited and pauperizes its people.
AB - The global value chain concept has become one of the most influential frameworks used in the study of globalization. The paradigm, however, is deficient in explicating the exploitative nature of global value chain governance. Based on a study of soccer ball production in China and Pakistan, this article analyzes global production from three perspectives: the role of the state in shaping the host countries' mode of production and legal framework, the issue of how surplus value is created and distributed, and the use of child labor or prison labor to remain competitive in the chain. The article shows, in the case of Pakistan, how a country using a lower-labor-costs strategy to retain a place in a global value chain allows its workers to be exploited and pauperizes its people.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873160249&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14672715.2013.758821
DO - 10.1080/14672715.2013.758821
M3 - Article
SN - 1467-2715
VL - 45
SP - 55
EP - 77
JO - Critical Asian Studies
JF - Critical Asian Studies
IS - 1
ER -