Global restructuring and its effects on occupations: towards a new division of labor?

Bettina Krings ()

No 12/2009, IET Working Papers Series from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IET/CICS.NOVA-Interdisciplinary Centre on Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology

Abstract: The following contribution considers whether global restructuring creates new forms of the division of labor. On the basis of empirical data from a comparative project in 14 European countries, the author supports the hypothesis that in addition to the ongoing process of the internationalization of work, there are ‘hidden’ effects at the local level. From the perspective of three occupational clusters, dynamics can be observed which have differing impacts on the occupational groups. Thus, there is a simultaneous process of restructuring and redefining skills, labor processes and the working organization which forms the daily reality of working men and women.

Keywords: Globalization; division of labor processes; occupations; quality of work and life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F0 J16 J61 M16 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2009-12
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