Labour governance in global production networks: Assessing labour standards in a new generation of public procurement legislation and trade agreements linked to market access into the European Union (LG-GPN)

• Applicant: Dr. Gale Raj-Reichert, Ph.D., since 9/2021
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: from 2018 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 389060330

The project aims to fill gaps in research on labour governance in GPNs through theoretical and empirical contributions. Theoretically, the project will advance theory of transnational labour governance in global production networks (GPNs) through a unique interdisciplinary approach that combines the GPN analytical approach with emerging theories in transnational regulatory governance from political science and employment relations in labour sociology. The combined inter-disciplinary theoretical framework will make unique contributions to the literatures of GPN, political science, and labour sociology. Empirically, it will contribute to literature by examining labour provisions in a new generation of public procurement legislation and a latest EU FTA which have not been extensively researched. The project is also unique in its comparative analysis of the clothing and electronics industries, which is rarely conducted in the literature on labour governance. Finally, is the relevance of conducting research on an emerging economy in the Asia Pacific region - Vietnam - which is relatively under-researched compared to larger rising economies such as China and India.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Austria
• Partner Organisation: Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)
• Cooperation Partners: Dr. Leonhard Plank; Dr. Cornelia Staritz, Ph.D.