Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Volume 6, Issue 2

Issue date: 01 October 2012

Bridges and barriers: globalisation and the mobility of work and workers Ursula Huws	1
Consent and content: effects of value chain restructuring on work and conflict in highly skilled workforces Pamela Meil	8
(Im)mobilising transnational labour? patterns of spatial mobility in Indo-German software companies Nicole Mayer-Ahuja	24
The emergence of a new medical model: the international division of labour and the formation of an international outsourcing chain in teleradiology Selma Venco	45
International sourcing and asymmetry: how Western software entrepreneurs tap and decant Ukrainian engineering skills Graham Hollinshead, Jane Hardy	58
The international division of labour, local resources and engineering workers: Eastern Europe in the global networks of the semiconductor Industry Peter Pawlicki	77
Exhausted bodies and precious products: women's work in a Special Economic Zone for the electronics industry in Poland Malgorzata Maciejewska	94
Offshoring Danish jobs to Germany: regional effects and challenges to workers' organisation in the slaughterhouse industry Bjarke Refslund	113
Workers, New Orleans, and the global shipbuilding regime Aaron Schneider	130
Globalisation as a driver of employment precariousness? the labour market status of UK auto workers four years after plant closure David Bailey, Alex De Ruyter	153
Skills that are valued in the knowledge economy: an examination of the experience of French workers in the 2000s Fabienne Berton	168