This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changing world of global production. Chapters cover the geography of why and where jobs are moving in both manufacturing and services. The authors discuss topics relating to the human and natural basis on which production rests, from the...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 A Suicide Survivor -- 2 Foxconn: The World's Largest Electronics Manufacturer -- 3 Apple Meets Foxconn -- 4 Managing Foxconn -- 5 Voices of Student Interns -- 6 Fire and Brimstone -- 7 Wandering the City -- 8...

The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting...