Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/206686 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Economic Geography [ISSN:] 1468-2710 [Volume:] 20 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Oxford University Press [Place:] Oxford [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 653-678
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Abstract: 
Research on labour governance actors in global production networks (GPNs) has been limited to civil society organisations, firms and governments. Understanding the influence of actors in GPNs has been dealt with singular and overt modes of relational power. This paper contributes to both debates by examining an intermediary actor—the social auditing organisation Verité—and its exercise of multiple modes of overt and covert powers to illustrate the complex terrain of change in GPNs. Verité, whose exposure of forced labour in Malaysian electronics subsequently changed labour governance practices in the electronics industry, mobilised power resources of credible information to exercise powers of expert authority and acts of dissimulation across various networked relationships in the GPN. This paper puts forth a multi-power framework of analysis to understand the micro-politics of GPNs.
Subjects: 
power
social auditor
forced labour
global production network
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