From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: Global Production and Work in the IT Industry by Lüthje, Boy

From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: Global Production and Work in the IT Industry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780742555884)

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From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: Global Production and Work in the IT Industry by Lüthje, Boy

From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: Global Production and Work in the IT Industry

$100.00
From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: Global Production and Work in the IT Industry by Lüthje, Boy

From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: Global Production and Work in the IT Industry

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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This seminal study explores the significant changes in the global IT industry as production has shifted from the developed world to massive sites in the developing world that house hundreds of thousands of workers in appalling low-wage conditions to minimize labor costs. The authors trace the development of the new networks of globalized mass production in the IT industry and the reorganization of work since the 1990s, capturing the systemic nature of an industry-wide restructuring of production and work in the global context. Their wide-ranging and detailed analysis takes the debates on the globalization of production beyond narrow perspectives of determining criteria of "success" for participation in global networks. Rather, they emphasize the changing nature of work, employment relations, and labor policies and their implications for the possibilities of sustainable economic and social development.

Author: Boy Lüthje,Stefanie Hürtgen,Peter Pawlicki
ISBN-10: 0742555887
ISBN-13: 9780742555884
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2013
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Boy Lüthje
By Boy Lüthje
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Boy Lüthje is senior research fellow at the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt and visiting professor at the School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou. Stefanie Hürtgen is research fellow at the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt. Peter Pawlicki is a staff researcher for IG Metall. Martina Sproll is postdoctoral researcher at the Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America, Free University, Berlin.

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