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As informacoes em nivel agregado mostram que nas empresas brasileiras houve uma reducao do emprego industrial da ordem de 20% entre 1989 e 1993 e um crescimento da produtividade do trabalho na industria de 30% no mesmo periodo. Parte da reducao do emprego industrial pode ser explicada pela adocao de tecnicas de gestao e tecnologias poupadoras de trabalho, e parte pelo processo de terceirizacao, sempre que se referir a migracao de trabalhadores do setor industrial para o setor de servicos. Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar o impacto da terceirizacao sobre o mercado de trabalho e as possiveis ineficiencias na relacao entre as empresas contratantes e terceiras. (Rev Econ Polit/DÜI)

Non-equity modes of international production and development / UNCTAD. - New York ... : United Nations, 2011. - 251 S. - (World Investment Report ; 2011)

En la actualidad las relaciones interempresa y la subcontratacion, han cobrado una creciente importancia en la organizacion industrial de las empresas, y particularmente en la electronica. El sector se ha caracterizado por la genesis de redes sistematicas de produccion internacional y de subcontratacion. La electronica mexicana ha mostrado una alta dinamica en terminos PIB, aunque mucho menor en terminos de empleo, debido a su alta intensidad de capita. (DÜI-IIK)

Los estudios realizados para este trabajo reflejan diferentes modalidades de subcontratacion que se van configurando y modificando a partir de los impactos de la crisis, la apertura y la modernizacion en las ramas donde participan las empresas. (DÜI-IIK)

This study analyzes the intersection of gender and production relations in small-scale contracting in nontraditional agriculture. The case of the processing tomato industry in the Dominican Republic exemplifies patterns found throughout the region. Building on a critique of unitary household models, the author analyses the gendered relations mobilizing resources for contract farming. As appears common, contracting has heightened demand for women's farm labor. Contracting has simultaneously provided women with openings for contesting the appropriation of their unpaid labor and many women are claiming payment for work in contract farming. (DSE/DÜI)

A close examination of the organisation of the clothing industry in Thailand exhibits a rather paradoxial situation: although the structural features of the sector - breaking down of the production process, high labour intensity, low asset specificity, unskilled labour - seem to legitimise a market co-ordination mechanism, it is a close, durable and multiform co-operation which cements the relations between contractors and subcontractors, as well as between the subcontractors themselves. (DSE/DÜI)

This article aims to study an issue of "double absence" embedded in the rapidly changing construction industry and to explore how it induces serious collective action among construction workers in post-socialist China. (**) The political economy of the construction industry has shaped a specific labour use system - a labour subcontracting system. The system generates a specific capital-labour relationship in which the legal labour identity and labour relationship are highly subsumed by an "absent" employer. It creates a double absence in legal terms: an "absent" boss and an "absent" labour relationship. This double absence has led to a perpetual process of wage arrears and struggles by construction workers to pursue delayed wages in various ways, usually involving legal action or non-legal collective action. The findings of this study are drawn from case studies conducted between 2008 and 2009 in seven Chinese cities. The labour struggle - the fight for delayed payment - was understood not as a form of legal labour activism, but as incipient class action in a specific context. (China Perspect/GIGA)

The modern cityscapes of Shanghai and Beijing, which today seem to crystallize Chinese dreams of modernity and global status, are underpinned by a construction industry steeped in a culture of violence. This culture arises from the political economy of the industry and from the politics of labor resistance among migrant construction workers. The rapid development of the industry has enabled a highly exploitative labor subcontracting system to emerge, characterized both by the rapid commodification of labor through non-industrial social relations organized through a quasi-labor market in the rural villages and by the expropriation of labor during the production process of the construction sector in urban areas. These two processes shape a labor subcontracting system that results in a never-ending process of wage arrears and the struggle of construction workers to pursue delayed wages in various ways, often involving violent collective action