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This research aims to explore how global supply chains affect worker vulnerability by examining the communicative conditions involved.

May 3, 2026SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaOpen Access

(Re)Contextualizing Organizing Inequities: The Communicative Production of Worker Vulnerability in Global Supply Chains

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SGShiv GaneshUniversity of Colorado System BNBhoopali Keshav Nandurkar SSSha Sun

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Ethnographic projects reveal communicative conditions shaping worker vulnerabilities in global supply chains, suggesting new insights for organizational communication.

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This research aims to explore how global supply chains affect worker vulnerability by examining the communicative conditions involved.
Conducted multiple ethnographic projects in India and China.
Analyzed vulnerabilities of marginalized worker groups in fast-fashion and agricultural supply chains.
Identified communicative conditions of fluidity, visibility, and disarticulation affecting labor conditions.
Fluidity revealed significant risks among fast-fashion workers in China.
Visibility highlighted the essential yet disposable labor of women in onion supply chains in India.
Disarticulation demonstrated how garment workers in cotton supply chains are disconnected from their communities.

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Ganesh et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69f6e5308071d4f1bdfc5e7b https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.11521

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Ethnographic projects reveal communicative conditions shaping worker vulnerabilities in global supply chains, suggesting new insights for organizational communication.

(Re)Contextualizing Organizing Inequities: The Communicative Production of Worker Vulnerability in Global Supply Chains

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(Re)Contextualizing Organizing Inequities: The Communicative Production of Worker Vulnerability in Global Supply Chains

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