Labor and the Globalization of Production

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Globalized Production: Structural Challenges for Developing Country Workers

   1. Globalized Production: Structural Challenges for Developing Country Workers

      • William Milberg

      Pages 1-18

3. Reconceptualizing Globalized Production

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Trade and Industrial Upgrading in Developing Countries

      • Yilmaz Akyüz, Richard Kozul-Wright, Jörg Mayer

      Pages 21-57

   3. Upgrading, Uneven Development, and Jobs in the North American Apparel Industry

      • Jennifer Bair, Gary Gereffi

      Pages 58-87

   4. Technology versus Trade versus Social Institutions: Explaining Rising Wage Inequality in the Chilean Cosmetics Industry

      • Janine Berg

      Pages 88-103

   5. Why Do Firms Disintegrate? Towards an Understanding of the Firm-level Decision to Subcontract and its Implications for Labor

      • Asad Sayeed, Radhika Balakrishnan

      Pages 104-118

4. Skill, Gender, and Location Bias in Globalized Production

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Skill Upgrading in Developing Countries: Has Inward Foreign Direct Investment Played a Role?

      • Matthew J. Slaughter

      Pages 121-145

   3. Does Trade Promote Gender Wage Equity? Evidence from East Asia

      • Günseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Joseph E. Zveglich Jr

      Pages 146-178

   4. Globalization in a Middle-income Economy: FDI, Production, and the Labor Market in South Africa

      • Stephen Gelb, Anthony Black

      Pages 179-206

5. Challenges to the Regulation of International Production

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Bargaining Power and Foreign Direct Investment in China: Can 1.3 Billion Consumers Tame the Multinationals?

      • Elissa Braunstein, Gerald Epstein

      Pages 209-248

   3. Rethinking International Labor Standards

      • Michael Piore

      Pages 249-265

6. Back Matter

   Pages 266-284

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This book brings together the work of international economist, labour economists and sociologists in a far-reaching study of global production networks and the challenges they pose for developing country workers. A number of both empirical and theoretical questions are addressed and answers are provided by drawing on a variety of examples - from China to Mexico to South Africa to Eastern Europe. The studies show that globalized production creates a new set of challenges to economic development for entrepreneurs, workers, governments and international organizations.

• gender
• globalization
• Institution
• labor market
• Nation
• organization
• sociology

• Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New School University, New York, USA

  William Milberg

YILMAZ AKYUZ Tun Ismail Ali Chair in Monetary and Financial Economics, University of Malaya, Malaysia JENNIFER BAIR Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA RADHIKA BALAKRISHNAN Associate Professor of Eonomics at Marymount Manhattan College, USA JANINE BERG Research Economist at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland GUNSELI BERIK Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, USA ANTHONY BLACK Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Capetown, South Africa ELISSA BRAUNSTEIN Assistant Research Professor and Assistant Director of the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA GERALD EPSTEIN Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA STEPHEN GELB Executive Director of the EDGE Institute of Economic Development, Johannesburg, South Africa GARY GEREFFI Professor of Sociology and Director of the Markets and Management Studies Program at Duke University, USA RICHARD KOZUL-WRIGHT Senior Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD's Division on Globalization and Development Strategies in Geneva, Switzerland JOERG MAYER Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD's Division on Globalization and Development Strategies in Geneva, Switzerland MICHAEL PIORE Professor of Economics at MIT, USA YANA VAN DER MEULEN RODGERS Associate Professor of Economics at William and Mary College, USA ASAD SAYEED Senior Researcher at the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research in Karachi, Pakistan MATTHEW SLAUGHTER Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth, USA JOSEPH E. ZVEGLICH, JR Economist at the Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines

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