Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7425-5588-4 • Hardback • September 2013 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-0-7425-6849-5 • eBook • September 2013 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
Boy Lüthje is senior research fellow at the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt and visiting professor at the School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou. Stefanie Hürtgen is research fellow at the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt. Peter Pawlicki is a staff researcher for IG Metall. Martina Sproll is postdoctoral researcher at the Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America, Free University, Berlin.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Bringing the Labor Process Back In: Global Production Networks and Work
Chapter 2: Beyond the New Economy: The Global Restructuring of Production Models in the IT Industry
Chapter 3: Reshaping the International Division of Labor: Global Production Networks in Electronics Contract Manufacturing
Chapter 4: Global Taylorism?: Work and Politics of Production in Low-Cost Locations
Chapter 5: From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: Network-Based Mass Production, Industrial Development, and Work
Explores the development of the new networks of globalized mass production in the IT industry and the reorganization of work since the 1990s, capturing the systemic nature of an industry-wide restructuring of production and work in the global context.
— Journal of Economic Literature
This book is a timely, valuable and heroic attempt to create a systematic understanding of the political economy of the IT industry in the late 20th and early 21st century based on empirical evidence. . . .The research presented in the book is. . . .heroic, for it would seem easier to analyse the dynamics of a tsunami as it is engulfing its observer than to fully comprehend the gargantuan forces that have in recent decades continuously transformed the IT industry. . . .The book, accordingly, bursts with empirical data about the successes and failures of a large number of IT corporations, presenting them in a rich narrative of their rapid structural changes. . . .I can recommend this book for its detailed overview of the developments of the IT industry, in particular the outsourcing from the developed world to the emerging economies. It is also a must-read for those interested in the construction of 'Taylorist' work regimes. . . .[the book] provides robust insights, buttressed with ample evidence.
— Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie
This is an informative volume on an important topic. . . .Those wanting to deepen their knowledge of contract manufacturers and of neo-Taylorism in action will profit from consulting this volume.
— Economic Geography