ABSTRACT

In Apulia (Southern Italy), the adverse incorporation of local suppliers within global production networks (GPNs) in the tomato and textile-clothing industries has reinforced the processes of informalization and exploitation of a segmented workforce. In contrast with the literature that identifies the state as a residual regulator, or a mere facilitator of GPNs, we show that the state is called to intervene to ease the social costs of adverse incorporation. Our analysis, however, reveals that public interventions targeting supplier firms and relying only on market mechanisms to foster upgrading, fail to protect workers because they neglect the structure and power relations of the networks as well as the potentially progressive role that labour can play in formalization processes. This paper, therefore, adopts the concept of adverse incorporation and provides novel evidence to investigate the forces that drive the deterioration of working conditions and the structural causes of public policy’s failures within GPNs.

摘要

在普利亚（意大利南部），不利的合并番茄和纺织服装行业的全球生产网络 (GPN) 中的本地供应商加强了非正规化和剥削劳动力的过程。与将国家确定为剩余监管机构或仅是 GPN 促进者的文献相比，我们表明国家被要求进行干预以减轻不利合并的社会成本。然而，我们的分析表明，针对供应商公司并仅依靠市场机制促进升级的公共干预未能保护工人，因为他们忽视了网络的结构和权力关系以及劳动力在正规化中可能发挥的潜在进步作用过程。因此，本文，