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Medientyp:
E-Book
Titel:
The new offshoring of jobs and global development
Enthält:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Lecture 1. An overview of the contemporary global labour market; The great global job shift; Offshore outsourcing and development: Old and new trends; Jobs in the global economy: A global value chains perspective; The contemporary global labour market: A changing landscape; Lecture 2. Global consolidation and industrial upgrading: The promise and perils of development; Introduction; Global consolidation: China, India and the apparel industry; Industrial upgrading in Mexico and China - An international trade perspective
A note on China's supply chain cities an industrial upgradingShifting development strategies and regional linkages; Lecture 3. Globalization and the demand for governance; The challenge to globalization; The nature of market governance; Before globalization; Globalization and governance deficits; The governance response; Conclusion: Are we at a turning point?; References;
Beschreibung:
The volume contains the full text of the 7th ILO Nobel Peace Prize Social Policy Lectures organized by the International Institute for Labour Studies. The lectures given by Professor Gary Gereffi of the Duke University, USA were hosted by the University of West Indies and held at the Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica in December 2005. In all there were three lectures, dealing with the following topics: (i) An overview of the contemporary global labour market; (ii) Global consolidation and industrial upgrading: The promise and perils of development; and (iii) Globalization and the demand for governance.