GLOBALIZATION, LABOR MARKETS AND INEQUALITY IN INDIA(Book Download)

GLOBALIZATION, LABOR MARKETS AND INEQUALITY IN INDIA

Dipak Mazumdar and Sandip Sarkar

Routledge/IDRC 2008

ISBN 978-0-415-43611-3
e-ISBN 978-1-55250-373-7
384 pp.

India started on a program of reforms, both in its external and internal aspects, in the mid-1980s. While the increased exposure to world markets (globalization) and relaxation of domestic controls has undoubtedly given a spurt to the GDP growth rate, the impact of reforms on poverty, inequality and employment have been controversial.

This book examines in detail these aspects of postreform India and discerns the changes and trends that these new developments have created. Providing an original analysis of unit-level data available from the quinquennial National Sample Surveys, the Annual Surveys of Industries and other basic data sources, the authors analyze and compare the results with other pieces of work in the literature. As well as describing the overall situation for India, the book highlights regional differences, and looks at the major industrial sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing and tertiary/services. Labor market institutions are discussed and the possible adverse effect on employment growth of the regulatory labor framework is examined carefully. Since any reform of this framework must go hand in hand with better state intervention in the informal sector to have any chance of acceptance politically, some of the major initiatives in this area are critically explored.

The book will be of great interest to development economists, labor economists and specialists in South Asian Studies.

THE AUTHORS

Dipak Mazumdar is Senior Research Associate, Munk Centre for International Sudies at the University of Toronto, Canada and Visiting Professor, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. Sandip Sarkar is currently working as a Fellow with the Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi, India.

Originally published by IDRC

The Offshoring of Engineering ( Books Download)

The Offshoring of Engineering:

Facts, Unknowns, and Potential Implications

Authors:
Committee on the Offshoring of Engineering
Authoring Organizations

Published by NAP

Description

The engineering enterprise is a pillar of U.S. national and homeland security, economic vitality, and innovation. But many engineering tasks can now be performed anywhere in the world. The emergence of offshoring the transfer of work from the United States to affiliated and unaffiliated entities abroad has raised concerns about the impacts of globalization.

The Offshoring of Engineering helps to answer many questions about the scope, composition, and motivation for offshoring and considers the implications for the future of U.S. engineering practice, labor markets, education, and research. This book examines trends and impacts from a broad perspective and in six specific industries software, semiconductors, personal computer manufacturing, construction engineering and services, automobiles, and pharmaceuticals.

The Offshoring of Engineering will be of great interest to engineers, engineering professors and deans, and policy makers, as well as people outside the engineering community who are concerned with sustaining and strengthening U.S. engineering capabilities in support of homeland security, economic vitality, and innovation.

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Front Matter	i-x
Executive Summary	1-4	(skim)
Part I: Consensus Report, 1 Introduction	5-9	(skim)
2 Offshoring and Engineering: The Knowledge Base and Issues	10-19	(skim)
3 Effects of Offshoring on Specific Industries	20-32	(skim)
4 Workshop Findings and Discussion	33-41	(skim)
Additional Reading	42-44	(skim)
Part II: Commissioned Papers and Workshop Presentations, Commissioned Papers, Implications of Globalization for Software Engineering–Rafiq Dossani and Martin Kenney	45-48	(skim)
Implications of Globalization for Software Engineering–Rafiq Dossani and Martin Kenney	49-68	(skim)
The Changing Nature of Engineering in the Automotive Industry–John Moavenzadeh	69-102	(skim)
Offshoring in the Pharmaceutical Industry–Mridula Pore, Yu Pu, Lakshman Pernenkil, and Charles L. Cooney	103-124	(skim)
Impact of Globalization and Offshoring on Engineering Employment in the Personal Computing Industry–Jason Dedrick and Kenneth L. Kraemer	125-136	(skim)
Offshoring of Engineering Services in the Construction Industry–John I. Messner	137-148	(skim)
Semiconductor Engineers in a Global Economy–Clair Brown and Greg Linden	149-178	(skim)
Workshop Presentations, Implications of Offshoring for Engineering Management and Engineering Education–Anne Stevens	179-183	(skim)
An Academic Perspective on the Globalization of Engineering–Charles M. Vest	184-190	(skim)
Keynote Talk on the Globalization of Engineering–Robert Galvin	191-194	(skim)
Software-Related Offshoring–Alfred Z. Spector	195-201	(skim)
Implications of Offshoring for the Engineering Workforce and Profession–Ralph Wyndrum	202-208	(skim)
Industry Trends in Engineering Offshoring–Vivek Wadhwa	209-212	(skim)
Offshoring in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry–Theodore S. Rappaport	213-218	(skim)
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda	219-222	(skim)
Appendix B: Workshop Participants	223-228	(skim)
Appendix C: Biographical Information	229-230	(skim)