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From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen - Global Production and Work in the IT Industry (Hardcover, New)
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From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen - Global Production and Work in the IT Industry (Hardcover, New)
Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
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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. Yet little is known about this phenomenon as the major
contract manufacturers deliberately hide their names from the
public on behalf of brand-name customers such as Apple. In short,
the authors argue, globalization is not always helping the IT
workers of the world, many of whom are working in unbearable
factory conditions. From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen traces 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 makes an important contribution to ongoing
academic and political debates on the globalization of production,
especially by taking these debates beyond narrow perspectives of
determining criteria of "success" for participation in global
production networks. Rather, they emphasize the changing nature of
work, employment relations, and labor policies and their
implications for the possibilities of sustainable economic and
social development.
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