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Offshore: exploring the worlds of global outsourcing
Offshore outsourcing - the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries - is one of the defining features of globalization. Routine blue-collar work has been going offshore for decades, but the digital revolution beginning in the 1990s extended this process to many parts of the service economy too. Politically controversial from the beginning, "offshoring" is conventionally seen as a threat to jobs, wages, and economic security in higher-income countries-having become synonymous with the dirty work of globalization. Even though the majority of corporations make some use of offshore outsourcing, fearful of negative publicity most now choose to manage these activities in a discreet manner. Partly as a result, the global sourcing business, now reckoned to be worth more $120 billion, largely operates under the radar, its ocean-spanning activities in low-cost labor arbitrage being poorly documented and poorly understood. Offshore is the first sustained investigation of the workings of the global sourcing industry, its business practices, its market dynamics, its technologies, and its politics. The book traces the complex transformation of the worlds of global sourcing, from its origins in the new international division of labor in the 1970s, through the rapid growth of back-office economies in India and the Philippines since the 1990s, to the development of "nearshore" markets in Latin America and Eastern Europe. Recently, this evolving process of geographical and organizational restructuring has included experiments in "backshoring" within low-cost, ex-urban locations in the United States and a wave of software-enabled automation, which threatens to remove labor from many back offices altogether. In these and other ways, the offshore revolution continues
Offshore. Exploring the worlds of global outsourcing
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Volume 52, Issue 7, p. 1022-1023
ISSN: 1360-0591
Offshore: exploring the worlds of global outsourcing
In: International affairs, Volume 94, Issue 5, p. 1185-1186
ISSN: 1468-2346
Foreign news: exploring the world of foreign correspondents
In: The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures 2000
Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents
In: Political communication, Volume 24, Issue 1, p. 84-87
ISSN: 1058-4609
Exploring the World of Social Policy: An International Approach
This bold new textbook represents a significant step forward in social policy teaching by combining comparative and global perspectives. Introducing readers to a wide spread of international challenges and issues, the book shows how insights into policy can be generated using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach. Global in its canvas and analytical in its method, the book: • explores the economic, social and political contexts of social policy; • examines in detail its institutions and fields of practice; • illustrates the field's main ideas, themes and practices, drawing on a rich international literature and using pertinent and thought-provoking examples. Authored by two highly respected and experienced academics, this book demonstrates the rewards of studying social policy from an international perspective by avoiding the constraints of a single-nation focus. Clear, authoritative and wide-ranging, it will be essential reading for students of social sciences taking courses covering social policy, social welfare and comparative policy analysis
Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11
In: Politics & policy: a publication of the Policy Studies Organization, Volume 31, Issue 4, p. 757-761
ISSN: 1555-5623
Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11
In: International affairs, Volume 79, Issue 5, p. 1078-1079
ISSN: 0020-5850
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The millennials: exploring the world of the largest living generation
With a special reference to India
Foreign news: exploring the world of foreign correspondents – By Ulf Hannerz
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 13, Issue 1, p. 234-235
ISSN: 1467-9655
Organizational change 'from within': Exploring the World Bank's early lending practices
In: Review of international political economy, Volume 15, Issue 4, p. 481-505
ISSN: 1466-4526
Exploring the worlds of Mercury and Minerva: essays for Lars Engwall
In: Studia oeconomiae negotiorum 51
In: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis