Artikel

Digitalization and change in the global division of labor: Industrial work in transition

The contribution discusses the impact of digitalization approaches in industrial companies and their implications for the global division of labour and work. It proceeds by investigating the scope and character of automation and its impact on the relationship between production locations in high and low wage countries. Contrary to expectations frequently voiced in public discourse the author does not identify a major push in automation in manufacturing industries (that would make a reshoring of production viable), because digitalization strategies rather concern new paths of flexibilization than automation. The effects on the geographies of production of technological change, however, result in new strategies of specialization and modifications of industrial governance, namely a refined division of labour between innovation-intensive production sites and their counterparts in the periphery.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: RBEST: Revista Brasileira de Economia Social e do Trabalho ; ISSN: 2674-9564 ; Volume: 3 (Art. No.:) e021016 ; Year: 2021 ; Pages: -- ; Campina, SP: CESIT - Centro de Estudos Sindicais e de Economia do Trabalho

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Production and Organizations: General
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Organization of Production
Automobiles; Other Transportation Equipment; Related Parts and Equipment
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Thema
automation
automotive industry
global value chains
Germany
automatización
industria del automóvil
cadenas de valor mundiales
Alemania

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Krzywdzinski, Martin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
CESIT - Centro de Estudos Sindicais e de Economia do Trabalho
(wo)
Campina, SP
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.20396/rbest.v3i00.15864
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Krzywdzinski, Martin
  • CESIT - Centro de Estudos Sindicais e de Economia do Trabalho

Entstanden

  • 2021

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