Global care chains are networks of transnational dimensions. Global capitalism affects whatever it touches, and it touches virtually everything, including global care chains a series of personal links between people. The burgeoning literature on welfare migration, or on the likelihood of migrants moving to countries with more generous welfare states, yields mixed results. Global care chains and emotional surplus value add to my bookmarks export citation. Sophisticated and geographically dispersed global value chains have emerged as an important feature of asias economic success, particularly in east asia. Global value chains in the current trade slowdown english. Global care chains, in the most elementary description, as developed by arlie hochschild in 2000, refer to the personal links between people across the globe based on the paid or unpaid work of caring hochschild, 2000.
The study of global care chains most often considers asian migration within asia. Impacts of gvcs depend on lead firms, specialization. Changing patterns of trade and global value chains in. Global value chains gvcs also have become a dominant feature of the world economy through international trade and investment, developing, emerging, and developed economies. Introduction global care chains are a theoretical concept established by hochschild 2000 to describe the growing trend of. Governmental initiatives and support needed to enhance the role of sme s in the global value chain 85 a. Inequality and income distribution in global value chains.
Characterising global value chains inputoutput tables can also be used to characterise the global value chain phenomenon more broadly, and to describe how countries participate in such supply chains. This brief examines changing patterns of trade and global value chains gvcs in developing asia, focusing on. As global value chains have evolved, so have the methods used to characterize them. Trade governance frameworks in a world of global value. To perform a search, you can combine terms from the filters to the left or use the search box below. Global care chains in the context of globalization and the transformation of welfare states,1 the formation of global care chains is one of the most paradigmatic phenomena of the current feminization of migration. This paper examines the migrationsocial policy nexus in global context, using a global care chains perspective to do so. Hochschild, arlie 2000 2000 global care chains and emotional surplus value, in anthony giddens and will hutton eds. A ssessing the participation of domestic sme s in the international production chain. The brain drain phenomenon is one that is wellknown to observers of global trends. Global care chains in context this work on global care chains is one example of a large number of studies that have grappled with globalisation processes through an examination of the international migration of female domestic workers, in particular nannies e. Participation in global value chains involves both upstream and downstream activities. We face a systemic crisis of reproduction in intimate relations and households, in capitalism overall, in our planets very environment.
A global value chain perspective prepared for the investment climate unit. Global value chains in a changing world global trade. Thinking gender and globalization in tandem has a significant role to play in helping us to understand, to grapple with. The unprecedented scale of the crisis and the speed of its transmission have revealed the interdependence of the global economy and the increasing reliance by businesses on global value chains gvcs. Duke university global value chains center duke gvcc erwin mill building, suite a116 2024 w.
Rethinking global care chains through the perspective of. Sage, 146 fiwon seeks domestication of ilos convention on domestic workers, vanguard july 7 2011 online. The effects of global value chain gvcs on the pattern of. A value chain can be simply defined as the full range of activities that firms and workers do to bring a product from its conception to its end use and beyond gereffi and fernandezstark, 2011. Hooren, fv 2012, varieties of migrant care work, comparing patterns of migrant labour in social care, journal of european social policy, vol. Real growth in global trade has decelerated significantly since its sharp recovery in 2010. The relevance of moving beyond a focus on paid versus unpaid care provision and the emotional costs of care chains. Introduction global care chains are a theoretical concept established by hochschild 2000 to describe the growing trend of women migrating to perform care and socially reproductive work.
Veblen 1904 included in his definition of goodwill trademarks, brands, patent rights, s as well as intangible assets held. Hochschild, a 2001, global care chains and emotional surplus value in on the edge. Vicky diaz a pseudonym is a 34yearold motheroffive. Industrialization and global value chain participation. Global care chains and emotional surplus value justice, politics. How have global value chains affected world trade patterns. Global value chains now represent a major source of socioupgrading opportunities and a new path for development. Living with global capitalism, edited by hutton, will and giddens, anthony, 146. Abstract this paper examines the current situation for healthcare supply chains in low andor middleincome countries, how the public and private healthcare supply chains in these countries are organized, and how they. Most studies on this topic have been mainly theoretical in nature.
The world is in the midst of a sporadic and painful recovery from the most severe economic crisis since the 1930s great depression. Another adaptation of the gvc construct can be seen in the aflcios curriculum for organizers in export processing zones epzs. Definition in recent years, fragmentation of production processes and the international dispersion of tasks and activities within them have led to the emergence of borderless production systems for products, both goods and services. Revisiting the global care chain literature, we reflect on the ways in which care. Global care chains, commodity chains, and the valuation of. Global value chains gvcs are an important phenomenon of 21st century trade. The whole process of producing goods, from raw materials to finished products, is increasingly carried out wherever the necessary skills and materials are available at. D omestic sme s in the television global value chain. And quite similarly to developed countries, women gain the status of the main income earner of the family, getting the respect from this position within the family.
Originalityvalue the special issue gives space and consideration to underexplored and underdeveloped areas in the literature on emotion and learning in the workplace. This concept refers to global processes to exchange care and salary. Global care chains and emotional surplus value southern. Yearonyear growth in global real trade1 decelerated from. Global care chains and emotional surplus value with arlie russell hochschild global capitalism affects whatever it touches, and it touches virtually everything, including global care chains a series of personal links between people across the globe based on the paid or unpaid work of caring. Veblens concept of goodwill offers an interesting perspective on the technological and financial rents alluded to above. The initially fromdevelopedcountry care deficit is thus moving into developing countries, through the process of global care chain. This symposium offers the opportunity to examine the distinctive contributions or added value of the care circulation perspective regarding different types of care work and the various dimensions that compose it.
Global care chains and emotional surplus value university of. Global value chains 5 contents 6 executive summary 8 1. The migration of educated, skilled and professional workers from their countries of origin which often trained them in the developing world to more developed societies where they can earn much greater salaries and enjoy a higher standard of living has been going on for decades. The global care chain is a characteristic of an increasingly globalised world in which demand for migrant workers in developed countries as well as the supply of migrants from less developed countries continues to grow. Notwithstanding this increase in global integration, the average share of foreign va in euro area exports e. Initial work on characterization of global value chains, or international fragmentation of production, used the imported input shares of gross output, total inputs, or exports as indicators. It is perhaps in the global care chain that we can see. Global care chains, commodity chains, and the valuation of care. Using a lifecourse perspective, this article aims to contribute to the understanding of how life trajectories shape decisions about migration and employment in social care. As the large body of the socalled global care chain literature has demonstrated, the value of intimate care obligations in the domestic sphere is replaced by paid.
In this paper we examine the constraints faced by nepal, a landlocked least developed country, in participating in global value chains. Within such chains, hochschild argues that surplus value is siphoned from the. How global value chains contributed to global imbalances. Hochschild, a 2000, global care chains and emotional surplus value, in on the edge. A former teacher in the philippines, she migrated to the united states to work as a housekeeper and nanny to the twoyearold son of a.
Type chapter authors ar hochschild page start page end 146 is part of book title on the edge. Type chapter authors arlie hochschild page start page end 146 is part of book title on the edge. The analytical and policy uses of a global care chains perspective nicola yeates, the open university, uk n. While they can boost exports and productivity, the resulting labor market impacts vary significantly across developing countries. By challenging the idea that emotional surplus value is transferred solely from periphery countries to core countries, and by arguing for a. The importance of the global value chain gvc phenomenon. Moreover, we could say that global care chains are what saskia sassen refers to as a stra. An ageing population in europe is currently putting pressure on longterm care services, creating demand for foreign workers. Care includes child care nursing for the sick and elderly people, and love giver.
Global care chains and emotional surplus value justice. Trade, competitiveness and development policies should be reshaped accordingly to seize these opportunities and avoid the risks associated with greater participation in global value chains. Global care chains, commodity chains, value, care 1. Not only nal goods or services get traded, but intermediate products and stages get outsourced and production becomes more and more fragmented.
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