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Research Streams
Creating & Capturing Value consists of four research streams that focus on different units of analysis.
The units of analysis move across the global, national, and local levels. They encompass the interactions among different actors in the global apparel industry from shareholders of large corporations down to the workers that sew our clothes.
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Labor regimes: capital, labor and the state
Labor regimes in apparel factories are produced when apparel GVC dynamics intersect with the structural material conditions in supplier countries, shaping supplier firm's business strategy, government's political responses, and workers' compliance or resistance.
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