Dear Pen Pals: I have finally found the time and energy to work on my next book, which was on hold for a couple of years. It is about international mobility of technical professionals (skilled) in the world economy and thus has a significant labor component to the discussion.
In chapter 4, I intend to discuss the US and Japan to illustrate major shifts in labor markets in the two countries. I also want to identify the main forces behind such shifts. This will allow me then to introduce the international 'mobility' of labor factor especially in the area of tradable services and specifically IT. The shifts in the labor market are seen as integral to 'deindustrialization' (thus offshoring) and growth of services (high value and precarious forms in both countries). However, there are important differences. In Japan the emergence of part-time, temporary workers, and erosion of life-time employment are recent dimensions of labor market shifts. The US I suspect will be somewhat different, with different initial conditions. I am somewhat familiar with the English language literature on Japan. But I need help with the US story. Could you recommend some good readings (books or scholarly articles) that deal with US labor market changes say from the 1980s to now? I also need directions to statistical info (BLS etc.) that could capture these shifts, such as part time work, etc. Also, how do Marxists view/treat skilled and unskilled labor? Should they be treated differently? While capital mobility has been routinized as part of the investment process, what about mobility of labor? What implications does it have on capital accumulation (expansiveness of capital in general), which is different from the usual savings-investment discussion in the mainstream literature? Or can the S-I discussion be brought in when discussing international mobility of labor since it leads to differentiated accumulation? I would appreciate your comments and suggestions. So as to not clutter the list offlist responses are recommended but I suspect there would be general interest in some of the issues on pen-l. Cheers, Anthony -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Porcelænshavens 24B, 3.78 DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Ph: +45 3815 2572 *GLOBALIZATION AND ECONOMIC NATIONALISM IN ASIA http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199646210.do A NEW INDIA?* <http://www.anthempress.com/index.php/a-new-india-1.html>* http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857285041.pdf* http://uk.cbs.dk/arc http://www.thisismodernindia.com/this_is_modern_india_about_us.html xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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