Globalization and the casual labor problem: history and prospects.

From: Social Justice | Date: September 22, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

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The automation and global restructuring of manufacturing is hollowing out employment overall, is relocating labor@intensive mass production to the Third World and, in North America, is creating a new manufacturing model characterized by flexible manufacturing in large-scale multi-purpose facilities run by fewer, more technically flexible and more highly skilled employees.

Heather Menzies

Rationalization combined with relocation, which constitute the response to the new structural conditions for the valorization of capital, are now bringing about a falling trend in ...

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