Mohammed Seid Ali

The Political Economy of Apparel Exporting Industrial Parks in Ethiopia

Auflage 2024. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 320 Seiten
ISBN 303160489X
EAN 9783031604898
Veröffentlicht Juli 2024
Verlag/Hersteller Springer Nature Switzerland

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This book discusses the maxim of industrialization with a human face or social upgrading, which currently dominates the academic and actual policy discourses, particularly in late-comer economies of the Global South such as Ethiopia. To understand industrialization with social upgrading in the current context of economic globalization, characterized by the Global Value Chain (GVC), the book adopts the Human Rights (HR) perspective to labour relations and employs the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) approach to analyze the labour compliance of apparel exporting firms and their respective global brand buyers operating in Ethiopiäs industrial parks. The findings reveal that Ethiopiäs post-2005 state-led industrialization development path, which has firmly embraced strong businessstate alliances, has curbed the power of labour. Further, global brands- flawed CSR and poor purchasing practices have contributed to the ongoing labour abuses in the country-s industrial parks. If the government does not consciously respond to the -race to the bottom-, the cold current of economic globalization that dominates the global apparel value chain, local industrial workers in Ethiopian industrial parks will continue to face dismal working conditions.

Portrait

Mohammed Seid Ali (PhD) is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. He was also a former Presidential Scholar at the African Studies Centre, University of Michigan.

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