UID:
almafu_9960963967702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (107 pages)
ISBN:
92-2-032375-3
Inhalt:
This book examines the impact of automation on developed countries and developing countries, with a particular focus on the prospect of "reshoring" or "nearshoring"- the opposite of offshoring - in which production shifts from developing back towards developed countries.
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- Table 2.1. Exports and formal employees in top ten apparel exporters, 2000 and 2015 or latest year -- Table 2.2. Country unit sales of industrial robots in textiles, apparel and footwear, 1993-2016 -- Table 3.1. Exports and formal employees in top ten electronics exporters, 2000 and 2015 or latest year -- Table 3.2. Global robot sales and stock in electronics (units) and share of total (per cent), 2000-2016 -- List of figures -- Figure 1.1. Trends in manufacturing value-added and GDP in industrialized countries and the rest of the world, 1990-2016 -- Figure 1.2. Employment growth by sector, emerging and developing countries, 2005-17 (per cent) -- Figure 1.3. Global unit stock of industrial robots, 1993-2016 -- Figure 2.1. Formal employees in the US apparel and footwear industry,1963-2015 -- Figure 3.1. Stock of robots by subsector and income group of the world, and the top ten electronics exporters in 2015 -- Figure 4.1. Amazon warehouse coordination between human workers (H)and Kiva robots (K) -- Figure 4.2. Robot density, by country -- Figure 4.3. Consumption of global industrial robot supply -- Figure 4.4. Labour productivity in the Chinese auxiliary transportation sector -- Figure 4.5. Labour inputs in the auxiliary transportation sector,by country -- Figure 4.6. Gross output of the auxiliary transportation sector,by country -- Figure 4.7. Skill composition of the Chinese auxiliary transportation sector -- Figure 4.8. Labour productivity of auxiliary transportation sectors, by country -- Figure 4.9. Chinese retail market growth -- Figure 4.10. Chinese minimum wage, by province, 2016 -- Figure 5.1. Average call handling time, by country -- Figure 5.2. Labour cost as a percentage of total cost.
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Figure 5.3. Range of annual call centre salaries vs. GNI per capita -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction - Sukti Dasgupta -- 1.1. Job displacement due to technological feasibility: A literature review -- 1.2. Strategic industries, automation, and the global division of labour -- 1.3. The case studies and main findings -- 1.4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 The apparel and footwear industry - David Kucera -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Automated sewing -- 2.3. 3D printing -- 2.4. Summing up: Jobs created, jobs lost, and the global division of labour -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 The electronics industry - Fernanda Bárcia de Mattos* -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Automation in electronics manufacturing -- 3.3. Electronics manufacturing, automation and reshoring: Telling cases -- 3.4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Automation in Chinese retail warehouses - Xiao Jiang and Ansel F. Schiavone -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Understanding the technology -- 4.3. General trends of Chinese automation -- 4.4. Automation in Chinese retail warehouses -- 4.5. Nearshoring -- 4.6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Call centres in India and the Philippines - Xiao Jiang and Ansel F. Schiavone -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Understanding the technology -- 5.3. IVR development: Major players -- 5.4. Call centres: Major players -- 5.5. Indian and Filipino call centre industries -- 5.6. Total automation? -- 5.7. Reshoring -- 5.8. Conclusion -- Bibliography.
Sprache:
Englisch
