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Publications
Books
Milberg, William
[ed.] (2004) Labour and the Globalization of Production: Causes
and Consequences of Industrial Upgrading,
New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
 Labour
and the Globalization of Production brings together the work of
international economists, labour economists and sociologists in
a far-reaching study of global production networks and the challenges
they pose for the workers of developing countries.
Labour and the
Globalization of Production addresses a number of empirical and
theoretical questions including:
- How should
we characterize global production systems?
- Does globalized
production promote 'industrial upgrading' or a 'race to the bottom'?
- What roles
do gender differences, labour market institutions, firm strategies
and government policies play in moulding the globalization of
production and influencing its welfare effect?
The book draws
on a variety of case studies - from China to Mexico to South Africa
to Eastern Europe. They show that globalized production, far from
being a panacea for developing countries, creates a new set of challenges
to economic development for entrepreneurs, workers, governments,
and international organizations. These new challenges result not
from the extent of globalizations per se, but from structural
changes in the sphere of production and policy that globalization
has brought.
Contents
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Globalized
Production: Structural Challenges for Developing Country Workers
William Milberg
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Part
I - Reconceptualizing Globalized Production
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| 2. |
Trade
and Industrial Upgrading in Developing Countries
Yilmaz Akyüz, Richard Kozul-Wright, and Jörg Mayer
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| 3. |
Upgrading,
Uneven Development, and Jobs in the North American Apparel Industry
Jennifer Bair and Gary Gereffi
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| 4. |
Technology
versus Trade versus Social Institutions: Explaining Rising Wage
Inequality in the Chilean Cosmetics Industry
Janine Berg
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Why
Do Firms Disintegrate? Towards an Understanding of the Firm-Level
Decision to Subcontract and its Implications for Labor
Asad Sayeed and Radhika Balakrishnan
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Part
II - Skill, Gender, and Location Bias in Globalized Productions
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| 6. |
Skill
Upgrading in Developing Countries: Has Inward Foreign Direct
Investment Played a Role?
Matthew J. Slaughter
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| 7. |
Does
Trade Promote Gender Wage Equity? Evidence from East Asia
Günseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, and Joseph E.
Zveglich, Jr.
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| 8. |
Globalization
in a Middle-income Economy: FDI, Production, and the Labor Market
in South Africa
Stephen Gelb and Anthony Black
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Part
III - Challenges to the Regulation of International Production
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| 9. |
Bargaining
Power and Foreign Direct Investment in China: Can 1.3 Billion
Consumers Tame the Multinationals?
Elissa Braunstein and Gerald Epstein
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| 10. |
Rethinking
International Labor Standards
Michael Piore
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