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...

Promising economic growth during the 2000s obfuscates the reality that Latin American countries are facing the acute threat of a middle income trap. In this paper I distinguish two approaches to the middle income trap: one focuses mainly on the lack of structural change, the driving forces...

"Assesses economic and political impacts of the worldwide revolution in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics and proposes policies to benefit jobs, working conditions, and incomes in the Global North and the Global South."

In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the...

In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and

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...