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Globalisation of the Footwear Industry: A Simple Case of Labour?

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  • Stella Lowder

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The usual explanation for the globalisation of the footwear industry is the ceaseless search for cheap and amenable labour. The performance of this industry in a range of exporting countries suggests that labour costs alone are insufficient. Attention is focused on the role of labour and the additional factors that have enabled particular countries to penetrate global markets at particular times. Macroeconomic factors, culture and the structure of society at national level are significant, but intermediaries are often crucial in articulating the global commodity chain. Non‐productive global factors, such as exchange rates, trade barriers that enforce change within the targeted supplier's industry, commodification, and particular markets must also be taken into account.

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  • Stella Lowder, 1999. "Globalisation of the Footwear Industry: A Simple Case of Labour?," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 90(1), pages 47-60, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:90:y:1999:i:1:p:47-60
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9663.00049
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    1. Allen J. Scott, 2005. "The shoe industry of Marikina City, Philippines: a developing country cluster in crisis," Urban/Regional 0511003, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Hopper, Trevor & Lassou, Philippe & Soobaroyen, Teerooven, 2017. "Globalisation, accounting and developing countries," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 125-148.
    3. Scott, Allen J., 2006. "The Changing Global Geography of Low-Technology, Labor-Intensive Industry: Clothing, Footwear, and Furniture," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 34(9), pages 1517-1536, September.
    4. Zhang, Abraham & Luo, Hao & Huang, George Q., 2013. "A bi-objective model for supply chain design of dispersed manufacturing in China," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(1), pages 48-58.
    5. Eike W Schamp, 2005. "Decline of the District, Renewal of Firms: An Evolutionary Approach to Footwear Production in the Pirmasens Area, Germany," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 37(4), pages 617-634, April.
    6. Fernando Merino & Cristina Di Stefano & Luciano Fratocchi, 2021. "Back-shoring vs near-shoring: a comparative exploratory study in the footwear industry," Operations Management Research, Springer, vol. 14(1), pages 17-37, June.

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