Global capitalism unbound Winners and losers from offshore outsourcing. - Ebook. - Originally published in: 2007 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing: What Is to Be Done? - Eva Paus * The Challenge of the Growing Globalization of Labor Markets to Economic and Social Policy - Richard Freeman * Offshoring and Labor Recommodification in the Global Transformation - Guy Standing * Globalization of Services: Friend or Foe? - Catherine Mann * Dynamic Gains from U.S. Services Offshoring: A Critical View - Will Milberg, R. Arnim, M. Mahoney, M. Schneider * Bargaining Power, Distributional Equity, and the Challenge of Offshoring - Jim Burke and Gerald Epstein * Social Contracts under Siege: National Responses to Globalized and Europeanized Production in Europe Vivien Schmidt * European in the Trap: Jobs on the Run and Democracy at Stake - Hans-Peter Martin * Offshore Outsourcing of Services: Trends and Challenges for Developing Countries - Luis Abugattas * Offshore Outsourcing as a Catalyst of Economic Development: the Case of India - Navdeep Suri * Offshore Outsourcing and Industrial Restructuring: New Europe's Success - Bart Kaminski * The Impact of Foreign Investment on China's Industrial Innovation - Gary Jefferson * Capturing the Benefits of Offshore Outsourcing for Developing Countries: The Case for Active Policies - Eva Paus and Helen Shapiro
Leading experts analyze the impact of the rapid growth of offshore outsourcing in manufacturing and IT. For some it promises more rapid economic growth and for some developing countries it is an opportunity to leapfrog, while others are sidelined but it also means labour and governments may lose bargaining power vis-a-vis globally mobile capital