Globalisation,, Knowledge and Labour

Globalisation,, Knowledge and Labour

Author: Mario Novelli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-16

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1135202958

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Knowledge is playing an important role in the development of contemporary capitalism. This book addresses the questions such as: how labour movements learn, and what strategies they deploy to defend their interests.


Labor in the Global Digital Economy

Labor in the Global Digital Economy

Author: Ursula Huws

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1583674632

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For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect. Ursula Huws ties together disparate economic, cultural, and political phenomena of the last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. She examines the way that advanced information and communications technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation: in culture and the arts, in the privatization of public services, and in the commodification of human sociality by way of mobile devices and social networking. These trends are in turn accompanied by the dramatic restructuring of work arrangements, opening the way for new contradictions and new forms of labor solidarity and struggle around the planet. Labor in the Global Digital Economy is a forceful critique of our dizzying contemporary moment, one that goes beyond notions of mere connectedness or free-flowing information to illuminate the entrenched mechanisms of exploitation and control at the core of capitalism.


OECD Employment Outlook 2017

OECD Employment Outlook 2017

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9264274863

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The 2017 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook reviews recent labour market trends and short-term prospects in OECD countries.


Making Globalization Work

Making Globalization Work

Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007-08-28

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0393330281

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Nobel Prize winner Stiglitz focuses on policies that truly work and offers fresh, new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate.


The Effects of Globalisation on Firm and Labour Performance

The Effects of Globalisation on Firm and Labour Performance

Author: Chin Hee Hahn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367507107

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This book examines driving factors and the effects of globalisation on economic development through firm and product-level data. The book is organised into four themes, i.e., productivity, innovation, wage and income gap, and within-firm reallocation of resources. The comprehensiveness and richness of firm and product-level data shed light upon the channels through which trade and investment affect firms' competitiveness and unveil factors shaping firms' heterogeneous responses towards globalisation. The book looks at Asian economies as well as Australia and how they have experienced substantial structural change and become more integrated into the global economy and will be a useful reference for those who are interested in learning more about the relationship between globalisation and firm performance. This book will appeal to policy makers and researchers interested in the impact of globalisation on firm performance.


Preparing Chemists and Chemical Engineers for a Globally Oriented Workforce

Preparing Chemists and Chemical Engineers for a Globally Oriented Workforce

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2004-09-02

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 0309092035

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Globalizationâ€"the flow of people, goods, services, capital, and technology across international bordersâ€"is significantly impacting the chemistry and chemical engineering professions. Chemical companies are seeking new ideas, a trained workforce, and new market opportunities regardless of geographic location. During an October 2003 workshop, leaders in chemistry and chemical engineering from industry, academia, government, and private funding organizations explored the implications of an increasingly global research environment for the chemistry and chemical engineering workforce. The workshop presentations described deficiencies in the current educational system and the need to create and sustain a globally aware workforce in the near future. The goal of the workshop was to inform the Chemical Sciences Roundtable, which provides a science-oriented, apolitical forum for leaders in the chemical sciences to discuss chemically related issues affecting government, industry, and universities.


Globalisation, Higher Education, the Labour Market and Inequality

Globalisation, Higher Education, the Labour Market and Inequality

Author: Antonia Kupfer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-16

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1317978269

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Globalisation, Higher Education, the Labour Market and Inequality addresses the global transformation of higher education in relation to changes in the labour market. It focuses on the relative impact of elements of globalisation on social inequality, and provides insights into the ways in which these general forces of change are transformed into specific policies shaped by global forces and the various national values, institutional structures and politics of the specified societies. The book begins with a theoretical conceptualization for a comparative understanding of globalization, higher education, labour markets and inequality. This is followed by a range of mainstream accounts from an international selection of contributors of the ways in which national systems have responded to the forces of globalisation and the increasing demand for higher education graduates – in Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and the UK. Finally, contributors explore more specific concerns such as the transition from higher education to the labour market in China and Sweden, the division of the ‘knowledge’ workers into traditional social groups in the US, and the role and salience of Doctoral programmes in South Africa in developing a knowledge economy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education and Work.


The Globotics Upheaval

The Globotics Upheaval

Author: Richard E. Baldwin

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0190901764

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"Digital technology will bring globalisation and robotics (globotics) to previously shielded professional and service sectors. Jobs will be displaced at the eruptive pace of digital technology while they will be replaced at a normal historical pace. The mismatch will produce a backlash - the globotics upheaval"--