Global Capitalism Unbound: Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing [Paperback]

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-?-vis globally mobile capital.Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing: What Is to Be Done?; E.Paus The Challenge of the Growing Globalization of Labor Markets to Economic and Social Policy; R.Freeman Offshoring and Labor Recommodification in the Global Transformation; G. Standing Globalization of Services: Friend or Foe?; C.Mann Dynamic Gains from U.S. Services Offshoring: A Critical View; W.Milberg, R.Arnim, M.Mahoney & M.Schneider Bargaining Power, Distributional Equity, and the Challenge of Offshoring; J.Burke & G.Epstein Social Contracts under Siege: National Responses to Globalized and Europeanized Production in Europe; V.Schmidt European in the Trap: Jobs on the Run and Democracy at Stake; H-P.Martin Offshore Outsourcing of Services: Trends and Challenges for Developing Countries; L.Abugattas Offshore Outsourcing as a Catalyst of Economic Development: the Case of India; N. Suri Offshore Outsourcing and Industrial Restructuring: New Europe's Success; B.Kaminski The Impact of Foreign Investment on China's Industrial Innovation; G.Jefferson Capturing the Benefits of Offshore Outsourcing for Developing Countries: The Case for Active Policies; E.Paus & H.Shapiro

'In a world where goods and services move more freely than the workers who produce them, globalization means offshore outsourcing. This book is essential for anyone who wants to understand this phenomenon and the debates over what to do about it.' - James K. Boyce, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

'The global labour market has doubled over the past two decades.' An innocent-sounding observation, but it captures the dynamic of one of the great tlÓ+