This book studies labour conditions in GVCs in a variety of sectors and across several Asian countries.

1. Introduction Dev Nathan, Meenu Tewari and Sandip Sarkar; 2. Achieving better work for apparel workers in Asia Arianna Rossi; 3. Improving wages and working conditions in the Bangladesh garment sector: the role of horizontal and vertical relations Nazneen Ahmed and Dev Nathan; 4. Bargaining in garment GVCs: the Asia floor wage Anannya Bhattacharjee and Ashim Roy; 5. Fresh produce markets, standards, and dynamics of labour: grapes in India Sukhpal Singh; 6. The 'zero-fee' tour: price competition and chain downgrading in Chinese tourism Yang Fuquan, Yu Yin and Dev Nathan; 7. Restricting competition to reduce poverty: impact of the tourism value chain in an upland economy in China Yang Fuquan, Yu Xiaongang, Yu Yin, Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan; 8. Restructuring of post-crisis GVCs: tourism in Bali, Indonesia Girish Nanda and Keith Hargreaves; 9. Dynamics of labour-intensive clusters in China: wage costs and moving inland Lixia Mei and Jici Wang; 10. Migrant labour in global value chains in Asia Yuko Hamada; 11. From disposable to empowered: rearticulating labour in Sri Lankan apparel factories Annelies M. Goger; 12. Scripted performances? Local readings of 'global' health and safety standards in the apparel sector in Sri Lanka Kanchana N. Ruwanpura; 13. Diffusing labour standards down and beyond the value chain: lessons from the Mewat experiment Meenu Tewari; 14. Social upgrading in mobile phone GVCs: firm-level comparisons of working conditions and labour rights Joonkoo Lee, Gary Gereffi and Sang-Hoon Lee; 15. The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and China's new working class Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun and Mark Selden; 16. New strategies of industrial organisation and labour in the mobile telecom sector in India Sumangala Damodaran; 17. Global production networks and labour process Praveen Jha and Amit Chakraborty; 18. Still a distance to go: social upgrading in the Indian ITO-BPO-KPO sector Ernesto Noronha and Premilla D'Cruz; 19. What do workers gain from being in a GVC? ICT in India Sandip Sarkar and Balwant S. Mehta; 20. Governance types and employment systems Dev Nathan; 21. The double movement of labour in the reformation of GVCs Dev Nathan, Meenu Tewari and Sandip Sarkar.