1. Introduction 'Putting Labour in its Place': The Labour Process and Global Value Chains; Phil Taylor, Kirsty Newsome, Al Rainnie, Jennifer Bair.- Part I: INTEGRATING LABOUR PROCESS AND GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS 2. Value in Motion: Labour, Logistics and the Contemporary Political Economy; Kirsty Newsome.- 3. Labour and Asymmetric Power Relations in Global Value Chains: the Digital Entertainment Industries and Beyond; Paul Thompson, Rachel Parker and Stephen Cox, .- 4. Positioning labour in service value chains and networks - the case of parcel delivery; Bettina Haidinger and Jorg Flecker.- 5. Labour and Segmentation in Value Chains; Nikolaus Hammer, Lone Riisgaard.- 6. Articulation of Informal Labour: Interrogating the e-waste value chain in Singapore and Malaysia; Aidan Marc Wong.- PART II: LABOUR POWER, AGENCY, AND STANDARDS 7. Labour as Object, Agent and Possibility of Globalization; Jennifer Bair and Marion Werner.- 8. Understanding Labour's Agency under Globalisation: Embedding GPNs within An Open Political Economy; Andy Cumbers.- 9. Social Downgrading and Worker Resistance in Apparel Global Value Chains; Mark Anner.- 10. Labour and Global Production Networks; Mapping Variegated Landscapes of Agency; Neil Coe.- PART III: SECTOR STUDIES 11. We Will Not Willingly Be Enslaved - Grass Roots Organising in the Garment and Electrical Value Chains of Southern India; Jean Jenkins.- 12. Human Security in Evolving Global Value Chains - reconsidering labour agency in a livelihoods context; Lee Pegler.- 13. Crowdsourcing the Global Production of Mobile Apps: a Study of Apple; Birgitta Bergvall-Kareborn and Debra Howcroft.- 14. Wasted Labour? E-waste, GPNs and Work; Al Rainnie Andy Herod, Graham Pickren and Susan McGrath Champ.- 15. Changing Landscapes of the Call Centre; Phil Taylor.