Flexible workforces and low profit margins: electronics assembly between Europe and China

Book

Corporate authors: European Trade Union Institute, Brussels

Edited by: Drahokoupil, Jan ; Andrijasevic, Rutvica ; Sacchetto, Devi

Publisher: ETUI - Brussels

Publication date: 2016

Pages: 238 p.

Keywords: assembly line work ; electronics industry ; industrial restructuring ; labour relations ; multinational enterprise ; trade unionization ; work organization ; working conditions ; production networks

Geographic area: China ; EU countries

Subject: Industrial economics

Weblink: http://www.etui.org/

Language: English

Illustrations: Bibliogr.

ISBN/ISSN: 978-2-87452-400-4

Shelfmark: 08.01-65527

"This book investigates restructuring in the electronics industry and in particular the impact of a ‘Chinese' labour regime on work and employment practices in the electronics assembly in Europe. It studies Foxconn, the world largest electronics manufacturing service provider and the main assember of Apple's iPhone and iPad.
The authors examine in detail whether work and employment practices established in mainland China have been exported to factories in Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Turkey, and how these practices have been adapted to the social actors and institutional context of the European host country.
The book thus provides a basis for identifying challenges involved in organising workers and opportunities for improving working conditions in the electronics industry through labour representation."

Support: Digital;Paper

ISBN (PDF) : 978-2-87452-401-1

Legal deposit : D/2016/10.574/07

Contains

[Book chapter] Introduction / 1 ; 1 ; 1. ETUI, 2016. - 7-18
[Book chapter] The early outsourcing of the electronics industry and its feeders / 1. ETUI, 2016. - 223-236
[Book chapter] Labour protests and trade union reforms in China / 1 ; 1 ; 1. ETUI, 2016. - 205-222
[Book chapter] 'Union busting is disgusting': labour conflicts at LG corporation in Poland / 1. ETUI, 2016. - 187-203
[Book chapter] Transnational organizing in Europe: a case study of a multinational company in the electronics sector / 1. ETUI, 2016. - 173-186
[Book chapter] Foxconn economics: how much room for better pay and working conditions? / 1. ETUI, 2016. - 155-172
[Book chapter] Electronic assembly in Hungary: how labour law fails to protect workers / 1. ETUI, 2016. - 131-152
[Book chapter] The case of Foxconn in Turkey: benefiting from free labour and anti-union policy / 1 ; 1. ETUI, 2016. - 113-130
[Book chapter] Building the European centre in Czechia: Foxconn's local integration in regional and global labour markets / 1. ETUI, 2016. - 95-111
[Book chapter] Chinese MNCs' globalization, work and employment / 1 ; 1. ETUI, 2016. - 67-92
[Book chapter] Hon Hai/Foxconn: which way forward? / 1. ETUI, 2016. - 45-66
[Book chapter] Re-focusing and re-shifting – the constant restructuring of global production networks in the electronics industry / 1. ETUI, 2016. - 21-44

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