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The "Low Road" in a Buyer-Driven Global Commodity Chain: Capital-Labour Relations in a Hidden Abode of Footwear Production in India
Bernard D'Mello  

The paper is a case study of capital-labor relations at one of the main plants of Phoenix International that manufactured and supplied footwear to Reebok International's Indian subsidiary, Reebok India Ltd. The case suggests that despite the rhetoric about the protection of "human rights in the workplace", finance capitalist logic and pressures drive the TNCs to take advantage of low wage and sweatshop labour conditions at the sub-contractor level.
 
February 06, 2003.

 
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