Today’s world is a consumerist world and globalization has given the consumer a range of choice. But the main benefit has been at the elite level where in today’s elite studies at Harvard, vacations in Switzerland, buys luxury products from France and lives a jet setting life style. By...

Winners and losers from offshore outsourcing : what is to be done? / Eva Paus -- The challenge of the growing globalization of labor markets to economic and social policy / Richard Freeman -- Offshoring and labor recommodification in the global transformation / Guy Standing -- Globalization of...

Leading experts analyze the impact of the rapid growth of offshore outsourcing in manufacturing and IT. For some it promises more rapid economic growth and for some developing countries it is an opportunity to leapfrog, while others are sidelined but it also means labour and governments may lose...