Nicola Phillips

Global inequality and the Trump administration

FW Mayer, N Phillips

Journal article  |  2019  |  Review of International Studies

Since US President Donald J. Trump took office in January 2017, the future of the global economy has looked distinctly uncertain. ..

States and the Political Economy of Unfree Labour

Genevieve LeBaron, Nicola Phillips

Journal article  |  2019  |  NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY

A growing body of academic and policy research seeks to understand and address the problem of contemporary unfree labour. In this ..

The political economy of state governance in global production networks: change, crisis and contestation in the South African fruit sector

Matthew Alford, Nicola Phillips

Journal article  |  2018  |  REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

Within the global value chain (GVC) and global production network (GPN) literature, one of the most vibrant areas of debate focuse..

Power and inequality in the global political economy

Nicola Phillips

Journal article  |  2017  |  INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Inequality in all its forms is the defining global problem and increasingly the defining political problem of our age. A monumenta..

The political economy of governance in a 'global value chain world'

Frederick W Mayer, Nicola Phillips, Anne C Posthuma

Journal article  |  2017  |  NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY

The global political economy has come to be shaped by a historically novel form of industrial organisation, the global value chain..

Outsourcing governance: states and the politics of a 'global value chain world'

Frederick W Mayer, Nicola Phillips

Journal article  |  2017  |  NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY

Politics, and by extension states, are marginal in debates about the genesis, evolution and functioning of the global value chain ..

Labour in Global Production: Reflections on Coxian Insights in a World of Global Value Chains

Nicola Phillips

Journal article  |  2016  |  GLOBALIZATIONS

This essay reflects on Robert W. Cox's work on global production, labour, and labour governance, and considers how his insights mi..

The Governance of Forced Labour in the Global Economy

Nicola Phillips, Fabiola Mieres

Journal article  |  2015  |  GLOBALIZATIONS

Abstract: The problem of forced labour in the contemporary global economy is attracting increasing attention in global governance ..

The social foundations of global production networks: towards a global political economy of child labour

Nicola Phillips, Resmi Bhaskaran, Dev Nathan, C Upendranadh

Journal article  |  2014  |  THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY

The resilience of the problem of child labour in the global economy has been amply documented, but, we suggest, the reasons for th..

Handbook of the international political economy of governance

A Payne, N Phillips

Book  |  2014

Since the 1990s many of the assumptions that anchored the study of governance in international political economy (IPE) have been s..