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Sunbelt frontier and border economy: manufacturing in El Paso - Ciudad Juarez
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ISBN: 9062660533 Year: 1985 Publisher: Utrecht Department of Geography, University of Utrecht


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From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen
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ISBN: 0742568490 9780742568495 0742555887 9780742555884 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham

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This seminal study explores the significant changes in the global IT industry as production has shifted from the developed world to massive sites in the developing world that house hundreds of thousands of workers in appalling low-wage conditions to minimize labor costs. The authors trace 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. Their wide-ranging and detailed analysis takes the deba


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Vertical specialization and trade surplus in China
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ISSN: 17595347 ISBN: 0857094475 0857094467 9780857094476 9780857094469 9780857094469 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Chandos Publishing,

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The traditional flow of goods from primary production through to manufacturing and consumption has expanded across international borders conterminously with globalization. Vertical specialization (VS) in processing and manufacturing in China has driven export growth. In particular, intra-industry and intra-product trade between China, the US and East Asia has increased China's trade surplus over the long term. Vertical Specialization and Trade Surplus in China aims to measure the level of VS in the Chinese manufacturing industry to provide a more accurate representation of China's trade surplu

Globalization and cross-border labor solidarity in the Americas
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ISBN: 1135931720 1280106867 0203997972 0415949572 0415949564 1135931712 9780203997970 9780415949569 9780415949576 9786610106868 661010686X 9781135931728 9781135931674 1135931674 9781135931711 9781280106866 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York Routledge


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Boom, bust, exodus : the Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a tale of two cities
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ISBN: 0197563104 0199335974 0190608862 0199335966 9780199335961 9781322247144 1322247145 9780199765614 0199765618 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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"In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 34,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for half a century. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour. In Boom, Bust, Exodus, Broughton offers a look at the transition to a globalized economy, from the perspective of those who have felt its effects most. In today's highly commoditized world, we are increasingly divorced from the origins of the goods we consume; the human labor required to create our smart phones and hybrid cars is so far removed from the end product we need not even think about it. And yet, Broughton shows, the human cost behind the shifting currents of the global economy remains a reality. Broughton illuminates these complexities through a tale of two cities that have fared very differently in the global contest to woo or retain fickle capital. In Galesburg, the economy is a shadow of what it once was. Reynosa, in contrast, has become one of the exploding 'second-tier cities' of the developing world, thanks to the influx of foreign-owned, export-oriented maquiladoras. And yet even these distinctions cannot be finely drawn: families struggle to get by in Reynosa, and the city is beset by violence and a ruthless drug war. Those left behind in declining of Galesburg, meanwhile, do not see themselves as helpless victims: many have gone back to school, scramble from job to job, and have learned to adapt and even thrive. It is a downsized existence, but a full-sized life nonetheless"--

Commodity chains and global capitalism.
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ISBN: 0275945731 Year: 1994 Publisher: Westport (Conn.) Praeger

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Industrial economics --- Applied marketing --- Economic order --- International economic relations --- Economic production --- Trade theory --- Commercial products --- Commerciële producten --- Competition [International ] --- Concurrence internationale --- Concurrentie [Internationale ] --- Consumer products --- Consumers' goods --- Division internationale du travail --- International competition --- International division of labor --- Internationale arbeidsverdeling --- Internationale concurrentie --- Koopwaren --- Manufactured goods --- Manufactured products --- Manufactures --- Maquiladoras --- Marchandises --- Merchandise --- Offshore arbeidsvergadering --- Offshore assembly industry --- Producten --- Products --- Products [Commercial] --- Products [Manufactured ] --- Produits commerciaux --- Produits manufacturés --- #SBIB:33H072 --- #SBIB:33H14 --- Wereldmarkten --- Macro-economische analyse --- Competition, International --- International business enterprises --- Assembly industry, Offshore --- Export assembly industry --- In-bond industry --- Maquila plants --- Maquiladora industry --- Maquilas --- Offshore manufacturing --- Outsourcing (International trade) --- Overseas assembly industry --- Twin plant industry --- Export processing zones --- Products, Manufactured --- Manufacturing industries --- International specialization --- Division of labor --- Comparative advantage (International trade) --- World economics --- International relations --- International trade --- War --- Commodities --- Economic goods --- Products, Commercial --- Commodity exchanges --- Substitute products --- Management --- Economic aspects --- Contracting out

Industry on the move: causes and consequences of international relocation in the manufacturing industry
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ISBN: 9221064786 Year: 1992 Publisher: Geneva International Labour Organisation

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Industrial economics --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Factories --- -Industrial location --- Industrial policy --- Industrial promotion --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- International division of labor --- Labor costs --- Labor market --- Labor productivity --- Offshore assembly industry --- Skilled labor --- Manufacturing industries --- -Industries --- Manufactures --- Labor --- Assembly industry, Offshore --- Export assembly industry --- In-bond industry --- Maquila plants --- Maquiladora industry --- Maquiladoras --- Maquilas --- Offshore manufacturing --- Outsourcing (International trade) --- Overseas assembly industry --- Twin plant industry --- Export processing zones --- Labor output --- Productivity of labor --- Industrial productivity --- Capital productivity --- Hours of labor --- Labor time --- Productivity bargaining --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Markets --- Costs, Labor --- Payroll costs --- Personnel costs --- Costs, Industrial --- International specialization --- Division of labor --- International economic relations --- Comparative advantage (International trade) --- Commerce --- Industrial development projects --- Business --- Industries --- Industry and state --- Economic policy --- Business enterprises --- Business location --- Corporations --- Industries, Location of --- Location of industries --- Plant location --- Regional planning --- Space in economics --- Factory buildings --- Industrial plants --- Manufacturing plants --- Mills (Buildings) --- Plants (Industrial buildings) --- Factory system --- Industrial buildings --- Mills and mill-work --- Workshops --- Economics --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Location --- Supply and demand --- Costs --- Government policy --- Industrial location. --- Industrial policy. --- Industrial promotion. --- International division of labor. --- Labor costs. --- Labor market. --- Labor productivity. --- Offshore assembly industry. --- Skilled labor. --- Location. --- Employment (Economic theory). --- Infrastructure (Economics). --- -Location --- -Labor --- Industrial location

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