I argue that the micro-sociological foundations of the new economic sociology make embeddedness a problematic concept for analysing economic organization at a global level. I then contrast the embedded network as a trust-based governance structure with the construct of the global commodity chain, which understands network governance in terms of power relations or 'drivenness'.

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Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi. How is women's employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This book, written by leading experts in the field, examines twenty-five years of change in women's employment and addresses the challenges facing women today. The authors offer an innovative analysis of how global changes including new migration processes, educational expansion, transnational labour markets, technological advances and the global economy affect women's labour market experiences.

Introduction: changing lives and new challenges. Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi, Kate Purcell and Peter Elias. There have been enormous changes in women’s lives in the UK in the past 25 years. In this book we examine dierent aspects of women and employment, and discuss how labour market experiences have not only changed the lives of women and their families, but also brought new challenges. These not only dier for women and men but also dier across the life course. Even before adulthood, young girls and boys have very dierent expectations and aspirations concerning their work and family lives.

Scott, Jacqueline; Dex, Shirley; Joshi, Heather, eds. (2008). Women and employment changing lives and new challenges. Cheltenham, Uk: Edward Elgar Publishing. Hansen, Kirstine; Joshi, Heather; Dex, Shirley, eds. (2010). Children of the 21st century: the first five years. Bristol: Policy Press.

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Women and Employment. Changing Lives and New Challenges

Women and Employment. How is women’s employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This book, written by leading experts in the field, examines twenty-five years of change in women’s employment and addresses the challenges facing women today.