Labour in Global Value Chains: Work Conditions in Football Manufacturing in China, India and Pakistan

Development and Change

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1211-1237

  Lund Thomsen, Peter ^a   Nadvi, Khalid ^b   Chan, Anita ^c   Khara, Navjote ^d   Xue, Hong ^e  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE   (Canada)

^e EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; SPORT; WORKING CONDITIONS;

CHINA; INDIA; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84868299316     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01798.x     Document Type: Article

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