Convened by Caroline Hambloch and Oliver Pye, University of Bonn, and Helena Pérez Niño, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands)

This panel explores how labor regimes mediate the intersection of the vertical structures of global production and the horizontal, place-based realities and experiences of work, reproduction, and resistance in agricultural global value chains (GVCs) and global production networks (GPNs) in the Global South. Understanding labor regimes as historically constituted, multi-scalar configurations of social relations and institutions that combine different classes of capital and labor (Baglioni 2022), this panel puts the labor regimes framework forward as the core analytic to understand and examine the organization and restructuring of the labor process in relation to global production and reproduction dynamics. This panel seeks contributions that engage theoretically and empirically with the multi-scalar interplay between labor control and labor agency, the linkages between different 'classes of capital' to different 'classes of labor', and consequences for the uneven patterns of labor conditions and worker agency within a broader understanding of the national political economy level and GVC/GPN dynamics and pressures.

This panel welcomes contributions from critical social science perspectives on one or more of the following topics:

- How GVCs/GPNs outsource the costs of production and reproduction at the upstream node; 

- Forms of organizing and solidarity between workers within and across workplaces, regions, and countries in various GPNs/GVCs;

- The role of petty commodity producers and other classes of labor in labor regimes, such as contract farming;

-  Continuities and discontinuities of colonial labor regimes on contemporary labor regimes; 

- The role of nature and ecological relations in labor regimes. 

- The role of standards and certifications in constituting labor regimes. 

- Methodological contributions on how to conduct research on labor regimes in GVCs/GPNs.