Here today, outsourced tomorrow: knowledge workers in the global economy

Mosco, Vincent (author)

Outsourcing of jobs, particularly the growing practice of sending the jobs of U.S. knowledge and communication sector workers to other countries, has becomea significant issue in academic, policy and media circles. The paper begins by defining knowledge workers and summarising debates about their significance dating from the 1950s. Next it considers prevailing views about the problem which centre on the fear of massive job loss to low-wage nations like India and China and prevailing solutions offered by labour- stop outsourcing wherever possible, and by business outsourcing can only be curtailed when business and labour grow smarter. Each of these views conveys an essential truth but each deals only with symptoms of a significant transformation in the international division of labour. Understanding this transformation, and the role of information and communication technologies, leads us to consider key dimensions in the complexity of outsourcing: developed nations like Canada and Ireland have benefited as recipients of outsourced jobs; less developed nations like India are not just recipients of outsourced jobs, they are beginning to lead the process; in spite of 'end of geography' promises, place matters and culture counts; and, finally, resistance takes a multiplicity of forms.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2005
• Number of pages: Str. 39-56
• Numbering: Vol. 12, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-75711
• UDC: 659.3/.4
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24237917
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor&Francis
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown
• Title: Danes tu, jutri tam: informacijski delavci v globalni ekonomiji

Abstract

Izvažanje delovnih mest, zlasti na področju znanja in komunikacij iz ZDA v druge države, je postalo pomembno vprašanje v akademskih, političnih in medijskih krogih. Članek začenja z definicijo informacijskih delavcev ter povzema razpravo iz petdesetih let. Nato obravnava poglede na problem, ki se usmerjajo na strah množične izgube delovnih mest na račun držav z nizkimi mezdami, kot sta Indija in Kitajska, ter na predlagane rešitve sindikatov. Ključne razsežnosti teh procesov povzema z ugotovitvami, da sta Kanada in Irska pridobili kot prejemnici izvoza delovnih mest; manj razvite države, kot je Indija, niso le prejemnice izvoženih delovnih mest, ampak postajajo vodilne v tem procesu; kljub napovedim o "koncu geografije" sta prostor in kultura pomembna; in končno, nastajajo raznovrstne oblike odpora.