Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Volume 1, Issue 2

Issue date: 01 July 2007

Defragmenting: towards a critical understanding of the new global division of labour Ursula Huws	1
Conceptualising globalisation: fossil energy, global finance and the labour market Elmar Altvater	5
Capitalist flattening or flattening capitalism? class forces and political choices in the global knowledge economy David Coates	15
The emergence of EMERGENCE: the challenge of designing research on the new international division of labour Ursula Huws	20
Network economy or just a new breed of multinationals? relocation of eWork as a window to the restructuring of value chains Jörg Flecker	36
CATCHING A BUTTERFLY? Mapping eWork in Europe and Australia Peter Standen	52
Navigating the seamless environment in the global supply chain: implications for Canadian regions and workers Penny Gurstein	76
Regions and firms in eWork Relocation Dynamics: Pittsburgh's call centre industry Chris Benner	98
Smart City North: economic and labour force impacts of call centres in Sudbury, Ontario Laura Schatz, Laura C. Johnson	116
Global forces and national Institutions: call centre work in Colombia Anita Weiss	131
Behind the screens: telemediated work in the Canadian public sector Norene Pupo	155
Workers' knowledge in the ‘knowledge society’: voices from the South Sujata Gothoskar	168
Productive restructuring and labour: the auto industry in Brazil Marcia Leite	178
The nexus of informatisation and internationalisation: a new stage in the internationalisation of labour Andreas Boes, Tobias Kämpf	193