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This book brings together the work of international economist, labour economists and sociologists in a far-reaching study of global production networks and the challenges they pose for developing country workers. A number of both empirical and theoretical questions are addressed and answers are provided by drawing on a variety of examples - from China to Mexico to South Africa to Eastern Europe. The studies show that globalized production creates a new set of challenges to economic development for entrepreneurs, workers, governments and international organizations.
List of contents
Globalized Production: Structural Challenges for Developing Country Workers; W. Milberg PART I: RECONCEPTUALIZING GLOBALIZED PRODUCTION Upgrading, Uneven Development, and Jobs in the North American Apparel Industry; J.Bair & G.Gereffi Trade and Industrial Upgrading in Developing Countries; Y.Akyuz, R.Kozul-Wright & J.Mayer Technology versus Trade versus Social Institutions: Explaining the Rising Wage Inequality in the Chilean Cosmetics Industry; J.Berg Why Do Firms Disintegrate? Towards an Understanding of the Firm-Level Decision to Subcontract and Its Implications for Labour; R.Balakrishnan & A.Sayeed PART II: SKILL, GENDER AND LOCATION BIAS IN GLOBALIZAED PRODUCTION Skill-Upgrading in Developing Countries: Has Inward Foreign Direct Investment Played a Role?; M.Slaughter Does Trade Promote Gender Wage Equity? Evidence from East Asia; G.Berik , Y.van der Meulen Rodgers & J.E.Zveglich, Jr Globalization in a Middle-Income Economy: FDI, Production and the Labour Market in South Africa; S.Gelb & A.Black PART III: CHALLENGES TO THE REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION Bargaining Power and Foreign Direct Investment in China: Can 1.3 Billion Consumers Tame the Multinationals?; E.Braunstein & G.Epstein Rethinking International Labour Standards; M.Piore
About the author
YILMAZ AKYUZ Tun Ismail Ali Chair in Monetary and Financial Economics, University of Malaya, Malaysia
JENNIFER BAIR Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA
RADHIKA BALAKRISHNAN Associate Professor of Eonomics at Marymount Manhattan College, USA
JANINE BERG Research Economist at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland
GUNSELI BERIK Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, USA
ANTHONY BLACK Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Capetown, South Africa
ELISSA BRAUNSTEIN Assistant Research Professor and Assistant Director of the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
GERALD EPSTEIN Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
STEPHEN GELB Executive Director of the EDGE Institute of Economic Development, Johannesburg, South Africa
GARY GEREFFI Professor of Sociology and Director of the Markets and Management Studies Program at Duke University, USA
RICHARD KOZUL-WRIGHT Senior Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD's Division on Globalization and Development Strategies in Geneva, Switzerland
JOERG MAYER Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD's Division on Globalization and Development Strategies in Geneva, Switzerland
MICHAEL PIORE Professor of Economics at MIT, USA
YANA VAN DER MEULEN RODGERS Associate Professor of Economics at William and Mary College, USA
ASAD SAYEED Senior Researcher at the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research in Karachi, Pakistan
MATTHEW SLAUGHTER Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth, USA
JOSEPH E. ZVEGLICH, JR Economist at the Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
Summary
This book brings together the work of international economist, labour economists and sociologists in a far-reaching study of global production networks and the challenges they pose for developing country workers. A number of both empirical and theoretical questions are addressed and answers are provided by drawing on a variety of examples - from China to Mexico to South Africa to Eastern Europe. The studies show that globalized production creates a new set of challenges to economic development for entrepreneurs, workers, governments and international organizations.
