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Local lives and global commodity chains: Timing, networking and the Hong Kong-based garment industry, 1957-1993.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Local lives and global commodity chains: Timing, networking and the Hong Kong-based garment industry, 1957-1993./
Author:	Leung, Hon-Chu.
Description:	299 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-10, Section: A, page: 4086.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-10A.
Subject:	Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9813593
ISBN:	0591644894

Local lives and global commodity chains: Timing, networking and the Hong Kong-based garment industry, 1957-1993.
Leung, Hon-Chu.

Local lives and global commodity chains: Timing, networking and the Hong Kong-based garment industry, 1957-1993. - 299 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-10, Section: A, page: 4086.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 1997.

The Hong Kong-based garment industry is examined in this dissertation as a strategic case to understand the interactions between industries as world-scale structures and locales as sites for social life. An institutional-ecological perspective is outlined in Chapter 1 to propose a conception of the world economy as socially meaningful transactional structures sustained by spatially and temporally contingent processes, above all, careers of individuals as institutional entrepreneurs. Chapter 2 reviews changes in the garment industry in Hong Kong, and identifies as puzzles Hong Kong's ability to maintain its position as a world leader in garment exports by shifting its competitive strength from low costs to quality control and rapid response, and the eventual contraction of manufacturing to become a service node in the industry. Chapter 3 discusses the garment industry as a world-scale structure of opportunities, and argues for the importance of both the construction of markets and the ability to mobilize through effective work organization appropriately skilled, but socially disadvantaged, workers as conditions for the viability of the industry. Chapter 4 offers an overview of Hong Kong as a milieu for economic activities, highlighting the demographic and socio-political processes that have turned Hong Kong into a city making the maximum use of its times and spaces for productive activities. Chapter 5 reviews types of social networks operating in the Hong Kong-based garment industry, demonstrating how they are connected into a flexible and reliable system of production through bridging functions performed by intermediaries. Chapter 6 examines labor supplies as social processes, indicating the importance of marital timing and household dynamics as key conditions for the availability of a skilled and committed workforce to the industry. The dissertation concludes with a chapter that argues for a commodity chains frame of reference in the analysis of the world economy and an institutional-ecological approach to economic organizations that centered on action of agents following definite careers.

ISBN: 0591644894Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017858
Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations.

Local lives and global commodity chains: Timing, networking and the Hong Kong-based garment industry, 1957-1993.
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