Description
This book analyses how high technology production has shifted from a regional to a global scale. Using the example of semi-conductors it illustrates the interaction of the developed industrial and developing industrialising nations. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of international economics and international business, professionals dealing with multinationals.
Table of Contents
Preface 1 A new mode of industrialisation 2 The international division of labour, industrial change and territorial development: Theoretical and methodological issues 3 Semiconductor production: Labour processes, markets, and the determinants of globalisation 4 East Asia: The emergent regional division of labour 5 Hong Kong: The making of a regional core 6 Scotland: The European connection 7 Prospects for globalisation and development 8 Semiconductors, development, and the changing international division of labour
