Made in… where? Territori e identità nei processi di valorizzazione delle merci tra delocalizzazioni e rilocalizzazioni produttive

The political-economic approaches to global trade flows known as global value chains and global production networks offer powerful insights into the coordination and location of globally stretched supply chains. However, social conflicts and negotiations through which they articulate at local level the value chains, often remain unexplored. Focusing on production delocalization from Italy to Romania and Moldova and on plants in Tuscany of luxury global firms, the aim of this paper is to analyse this dimension and in particular spatial and identitary processes of construction of the value of the commodities and its impact on labor conditions.