Labour standards and regulation in global value chains: The case of the New Zealand Fishing Industry
通过新西兰渔业案例，研究全球价值链治理如何演变，以及外部事件如何推动劳工标准监管变革，对关注劳工权益和全球供应链治理的学者有参考价值。
Building on the concept of polarity in global value chains, we explore how the nature of the governance of a global value chain can evolve and how contingencies can reshape governance arrangements. A case-study of the New Zealand fishing industry highlights how parties inside and outside the global value chain came to contest labour standards, laying the base for credible regulation. In 2011 through a series of convergent events, migrant crew on board South Korean fishing vessels, hitherto exploited, abused and isolated, emerged as a significant actor to bring about a clear transition in the governance of a multipolar global value chain. In this paper, we analyse the series of events which led to regulatory change and consider whether the dynamics from the case offer lessons for improving labour standards and regulation in global value chains more generally.