The emergence of EMERGENCE: the challenge of designing research on the new international division of labour. (1st July 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ursula Huws
• Is Part Of: Work, organisation, labour & globalisation. Volume 1:Number 2(2007)
• Page Start: 20
• Page End: 35
• Publication Date: 2007-07-01
• Subjects: Work -- Periodicals; Labor -- Periodicals; Division of labor -- Periodicals; Industrial relations -- Periodicals; Division of labor; Industrial relations; Labor; Work; Periodicals; 331
• DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.1.2.0020
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1745-6428

Abstract

Abstract : This paper anatomises a pioneering international research project on the global relocation of telemediated employment. It outlines the intellectual origins of the project in the literature on globalisation, the knowledge society, teleworking and other related bodies of work and discusses the limits of the empirical information available up to 2000, when the project was launched. It then summarises the conceptual and methodological framework developed for the project, before discussing some of its limitations, drawing lessons for future international collaborative research on the changing international division of labour.