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Jamie Peck

Offshore

Exploring the Worlds of Global Outsourcing

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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 becomesynonymous 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… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-104084-9
  • EAN: 9780191040849
  • Produktnummer: 29378789
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 270 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 11'690 KB

Über den Autor


Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include labour studies, economic restructuring, neoliberalization, and urban transformations. Elected to the fellowships of the Royal Society of Canada and the Academy of the Social Sciences, he has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Harkness fellowships, and received the Royal GeographicalSociety's Back Award for contributions to economic geography. He is the managing editor of the journal Environment and Planning A and the coordinator of the Summer Institute in Economic Geography.

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