The Sociology of Global Supply Chains: Labor Regimes and Transnational Worker Solidarity in the Post-Pandemic Era

The present secondary-research report is an analysis of the post-pandemic global supply chains' (GSCs) sociology, focusing on the dialectic of strengthening labor regimes and changing transnational worker solidarity. The paper claims that the COVID-19 crisis was a great accelerator that has shown and further enforced structural inequalities that existed before. Capital has reacted by re-engineering control by increasing precarity, digital surveillance, and state alliances in a resilience narrative. On the other hand, the identical crisis has prompted new labor reactions, such as digital mobilization, new networks of solidarity, and coalitional approaches to logistical bottlenecks. The report provides a conclusion that the modern world is characterized by an essential battle over governance between a capital-based initiative of risk reduction and a labor-focused prospectus of a just recovery, the victory of which depends on the efficacy of the latest networked forms of worker counter-power.