Volume 1 No 2 - contents
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Defragmenting: towards a
critical understanding of the new global division of labour
by Ursula Huws, Professor of International Labour Studies,
Conceptualising
globalisation: fossil energy, global finance and the labour market
by Elmar Altvater, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Free
University of Berlin, Germany
Capitalist flattening or
flattening capitalism? Class forces and political choices in the global
knowledge economy
by David Coates, Professor of Anglo-American Studies, Wake Forest
University, North Carolina, USA
The emergence of
EMERGENCE: the challenge of designing research on the new international
division of labour
by Ursula Huws, Professor of International Labour Studies, London
Metropolitan
University, UK
Network economy or just
a new breed of multinationals? relocation of eWork as a window to the
restructuring of value chains
by Jörg Flecker, Scientific
Director, Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA),
by Peter Standen, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
Navigating the seamless environment in the global supply chain
by Penny Gurstein, Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Regions and firms in eWork relocation dynamics: Pittsburgh's call centre industry
by Chris Benner, Associate Professor, Human and Community Development Department, University of California Davis, USA
Smart City North: economic and labour force impacts of call centres in Sudbury, Ontario
by Laura Schatz, PhD Candidate, School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and Laura Johnson, Associate Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Global Forces and National Institutions: call centre work in Colombia
by Anita Weiss, Professor of Sociology, University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Behind the Screens: telemediated work in the Canadian public sector
by Norene Pupo, Director, Centre for Research on Work and Society, York University, Toronto, Canada
Workers' knowledge in the 'knowledge society': Voices from the South
by Sujata Gothoskar, Researcher, International Foodworkers Union, Mumbai, India
Productive restructuring and labour: the auto industry in Brazil
by Marcia Leite, Professor of Labour Studies, University of Campinas, Brazil
The nexus of informatisation and internationalisation: a new stage in the internationalisation of labour
by Andreas Boes, Social Researcher, Institute for Social Science Research, Munich, Germany and Tobias Kampf, Doctoral Candidate, Institute for Social Science Research, Munich, Germany
