The emergence of EMERGENCE: the challenge of designing research on the new international division of labour

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The emergence of EMERGENCE: the challenge of designing research on the new international division of labour

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Author(s): Ursula Huws

Publication date (Print): Summer 2007

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

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This paper anatomises a pioneering international research project on the global relocation of telemediated employment. It outlines the intellectual origins of the project in the literature on globalisation, the knowledge society, teleworking and other related bodies of work and discusses the limits of the empirical information available up to 2000, when the project was launched. It then summarises the conceptual and methodological framework developed for the project, before discussing some of its limitations, drawing lessons for future international collaborative research on the changing international division of labour.

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Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

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Publication date (Print): Summer 2007

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Pages: 20-35

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[1] Abernethy, D.B (2000) The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires 1415–1980 , New Haven: Yale University Press

[2] Beatson, M. (1995) Labour Market Flexibility , Research Series No 48, Sheffield: Employment Department

[3] Bell, D. (1973) The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting , New York: Basic Books

[4] Cairncross, F. (1997) The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution will Change our Lives , Boston: Harvard Business School Press

[5] Castells, M (1997) The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume II: The Power of Identity, Oxford and Malden, Massachussetts: Blackwell,

[6] Coates, D. (2000) Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era , Cambridge: Polity Press

[7] Cox, R (1987) Production, Power and World Order , New York: Columbia University Press

[8] Coyle, D. (1997) Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy , Oxford: Capstone Publishing

[9] Curson, C (1986) Flexible Patterns of Work , London: Institute of Personnel Management

[10] Davis, S., & C. Meyer (1999) Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy , New York: Warner Books

[11] Duménil, G. & D. Lévy (2004) ‘The Nature and Contradictions of Neo-Liberalism’ in L. Panitch & C. Leys, The New Imperial Challenge , London: Merlin Press: 245–274

[12] Flecker, J. & S. S. Kirschenhofer (2000) Jobs on the move. European case studies in relocating work , IES report 386, Brighton: Institute for Employment Studies

[13] Gershuny, J. (1978) After the Industrial Society? the Emerging Self-Service Economy , London: Macmillan

[14] Gray, J. (1999) False Dawn: the Delusions of Global Capitalism , New York: The New Press

[15] Grieder, W. (1997), One World, Ready or Not: the Manic Logic of Global Capitalism , New York: Simon and Schuster

[16] Hall, P.A. & D. Soskice (2001) Varieties of Capitalism , Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press

[17] Harvey, D. (2000) Spaces of Hope , Berkeley: University of California Press

[18] Hirst, P. & G. Thompson (1996), Globalisation in Question , Oxford: Polity Press

[19] Hutton, W. & A. A. Giddens (2000), Global Capitalism , New York: The New Press

[20] Huws, U. & J. Flecker (2004) Asian EMERGENCE: The World's Back Office? IES Report 409, Brighton: Institute for Employment Studies

[21] Huws, U. & S. O S. Regan (2001) eWork in Europe: Results from the EMERGENCE 18-country Survey , IES Report 380, Brighton: Institute for Employment Studies

[22] Huws, U. (1999) ‘Material world: the myth of the weightless economy’, in L. Panitch & C. Leys (eds.), Global Capitalism versus Democracy: Socialist Register , London: Merlin

[23] Huws, U. (2001) Statistical indicators of eWork , IES Report 385, Brighton: Institute for Employment Studies,

[24] Huws, U. et al. (2003a) When work takes flight: final report of the EMERGENCE project , IES Report 397, Brighton: Institute for Employment Studies,

[25] Huws, U. (2005) ‘Coding and classification of sectors and occupations in the eEconomy’ in M. Ramioul, U. Huws and A. Bollen (eds) Measuring the Information Society , Leuven: Catholic University of Leuven Press

[26] Huws, U, W. Korte & S. Robinson (1990) Telework: Towards the Elusive Office , Chichester & New York: John Wiley

[27] Huws, U. (1984) The New Homeworkers: New Technology and the Relocation of White-collar Work , London: Low Pay Unit

[28] Huws, U. (1996) Teleworking an Overview of the Research , London: Department of Trade and Industry

[29] Huws, U. (2003) The Making of a Cybertariat: Real Work in a Virtual World , New York: Monthly Review Press

[30] Huws, U., J. Hurstfield & R. Holtmaat (1989) What Price Flexibility?: the Casualisation of Women's Employment , London: Low Pay Unit

[31] Huws, U., N. Jagger & S. O Regan (1999) Teleworking and Globalisation , IES Report 358, Brighton: Institute for Employment Studies

[32] Luxemburg, R. (1913, reprinted 2003) The Accumulation of Capital , London: Routledge

[33] Lyon, D. (1988) The Information Society: Issues and Illusions , Oxford: Polity Press

[34] Miles, I. (1988) Information Technology and Information Society: Options for the Future , London: ESRC

[35] Mittelman, J.H. (2000) The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance , Princeton: Princeton University Press

[36] Neef, D. (1998) The Economic Impact of Knowledge (Resources for the Knowledge-based Economy) , London: Butterworth-Heinemann

[37] Norton, B. & C. Smith (1998) Understanding the Virtual Organization , New York: Barrons Educational

[38] Ohmae, K. (1990) The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked World Economy , London: HarperCollins

[39] Panitch L. (2004) ‘Globalization and the State’ in L. Panitch, C. Leys, A. Zuege & M. Konings (eds.), The Globalization Decade , London: Merlin: 9–43

[40] Pattinson, B., P. Montagnier & L. Moussiegt (2001) Measuring the ICT Sector , Paris: OECD

[41] Pearson R. (1991) ‘Gender and New Technology in the Caribbean: New Work for Women?’ in Momsen J. (ed) Gender Analysis in Development , Discussion Paper 5, Norwich: University of East Anglia

[42] Radice H. (2004) ‘Taking Globalization Seriously’ in L. Panitch, C. Leys, A. Zuege & M. Konings (eds), The Globalization Decade , London: Merlin

[43] Soares, A (1991) ‘the Hard Life of Unskilled Workers in New Technologies: Data Entry Clerks in Brazil’, in Bullinger H. J. Bullinger H. J. (ed) Human Aspects in Computing , Amsterdam: Elsevier

[44] Soete, L., (1996) ‘The Challenges of Innovation’ in IPTS Report 7, Seville: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, September: 7–13

[45] Tapscott, D. (1995) The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence , Columbus: McGraw Hill

[46] Toffler, A. (1981) The Third Wave , London: Pan

[47] Touraine, A. (1969) La Société Post-Industrielle , Paris: Denoel-Gonthier

[48] Mesenbourg, L. (2000) Measuring the Digital Economy , Washington: US Department of Commerce

[49] Webster, F. (1995) Theories of the information society , London: Routledge

[50] Zysman J. (1996) ‘The Myth of a ‘Global’ economy: enduring national foundations and emerging regional realities’ in Global Political Economy 1 (2)