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Offshore: Exploring the Worlds of Global Outsourcing de Jamie Peck

Offshore: Exploring the Worlds of Global Outsourcing

Autor Jamie Peck
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 apr 2019

Observăm că aplicabilitatea practică a volumului Offshore rezidă în capacitatea sa de a demitiza mecanismele opace ale externalizării serviciilor, un sector care operează adesea sub radarul analizei economice convenționale. Subliniem faptul că Jamie Peck nu se limitează la o descriere a pierderii locurilor de muncă în țările dezvoltate, ci oferă o cartografiere riguroasă a dinamicii pieței, a tehnologiilor și a politicilor care susțin acest arbitraj global al forței de muncă ieftine. Structura narativă urmărește transformarea complexă a economiilor de tip „back-office” din India și Filipine, extinzând analiza către piețele emergente din Europa de Est și America Latină.

Credem că această lucrare este comparabilă cu Offshoring of white-collar services de Artur Klimek în ceea ce privește rigurozitatea analizei serviciilor profesionale, dar aduce un plus de actualitate prin examinarea experimentelor de „backshoring” și a valului de automatizare care amenință să elimine complet factorul uman din multe procese administrative. În contextul operei autorului, Offshore continuă preocupările din Variegated Economies, unde Jamie Peck a explorat diferențierea geografică a formelor economice, oferind aici un studiu de caz extins asupra modului în care capitalul global se restructurează spațial. Spre deosebire de abordarea pedagogică din Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, acest volum adoptă un ton critic și investigativ, fiind esențial pentru înțelegerea noii diviziuni internaționale a muncii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198841722
ISBN-10: 0198841728
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 162 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte se adresează studenților la geografie economică, profesioniștilor din management global și factorilor de decizie politică. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care revoluția digitală a transformat externalizarea dintr-o strategie industrială într-una de servicii. Este un instrument teoretic solid pentru a descifra de ce și unde se mută joburile în economia globală contemporană.

Despre autor

Jamie Peck este profesor de geografie și deținătorul catedrei de cercetare a Canadei în economie politică urbană și regională la University of British Columbia. Recunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale teoretice în geografia economică, Peck s-a concentrat pe studiul guvernanței neoliberale, dinamica pieței muncii și mobilitatea politicilor publice. Lucrările sale, precum Fast Policy sau Variegated Economies, reflectă un interes constant pentru modul în care procesele economice globale sunt modelate de contexte locale și instituționale specifice.

Descriere

Offshore outsourcing- the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries- is one of the defining features of globalization. Routine blue-collar work has been going offshore for decades, but the digital revolution beginning in the 1990s extended this process to many parts of the service economy too. Politically controversial from the beginning, "offshoring" is conventionally seen as a threat to jobs, wages, and economic security in higher-income countries, having become synonymous with the dirty work of globalization. Even though the majority of corporations make some use of offshore outsourcing, fearful of negative publicity most now choose to manage these activities in a discreet manner. Partly as a result, the global sourcing business, reckoned to be worth more than $120 billion, largely operates under the radar, its ocean-spanning activities in low-cost labour arbitrage being poorly documented and poorly understood.Offshore is the first sustained investigation of the workings of the global sourcing industry, its business practices, its market dynamics, its technologies, and its politics. The book traces the complex transformation of the worlds of global sourcing, from its origins in the new international division of labour in the 1970s, through the rapid growth of back-office economies in India and the Philippines since the 1990s, to the development of "nearshore" markets in Latin America and Eastern Europe. Recently, this evolving process of geographical and organizational restructuring has included experiments in "backshoring" within low-cost, ex-urban locations in the United States and a wave of software-enabled automation, which threatens to remove labour from many back offices altogether. In these and other ways, the offshore revolution continues.

Recenzii

The contemporary state faces a continued tension between facilitating capitalism's operations wherever they might be and sustaining its national population's economic well-being. Jamie Peck's superb book focuses readers on that tension as they come to appreciate the complexity of the murky world in which we all now are deeply embedded.
Offshore is a superb book of very wide significance. Employing a sophisticated, multi-layered, nuanced analysis Jamie Peck really gets inside this elusive and opaque industry whose rapidly evolving practices are transforming business and economic landscapes at a global scale with potentially immense economic, social and political implications. It is, without doubt, a major contribution.
Jamie Peck details the workings of outsourcing industry, the culture it creates, and the levels to which firms are willing to go to deliver on a contract. At bottom, outsourcing is about cost; higher up, it is accompanied by evangelical promises of organizational efficiency; and in some cases there are truly transformational results, with wholly new capabilities and smoothly running global operations. This book is a must read if you wish to understand how companies decide what to outsource and what they expect will result, once the armies of business consultants have finished their work.
Offshore is a revelatory exploration of the offshore outsourcing complex what many of us consider the heart of darkness of the modern global economy. Crossing oceans and continents in pursuit of his quarry, Jamie Peck examines it from every angle the corporations who see outsourcing as a way to cut expense and bother, the providers of outsourcing services who scramble for contracts in a dog-eat-dog competitive nightmare, the domestic politics and politicians, the constantly churning geography (offshore, nearshore, onshore) and the looming fear of automation. Who knew that the unhappy providers yearn for respect and dream of a time when they will be strategic partners rather than bottom feeders? Who knew that everyone in the business agrees that outsourcing hardly ever works well? Offshore is first-class research and fascinating to read.

Notă biografică

Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include labour studies, economic restructuring, neoliberalization, and urban transformations. Elected to the fellowships of the Royal Society of Canada and the Academy of the Social Sciences, he has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Harkness fellowships, and received the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award for contributions to economic geography. He is the managing editor of the journal Environment and Planning A and the coordinator of the Summer Institute in Economic Geography.