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Robotics and reshoring : employment implications for developing countries /

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 devel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Bárcia de Mattos, Fernanda (Autor), Dasgupta, Sukti (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: International Labour Organization
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Geneva : International Labour Organization, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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) 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a Figure 5.1. Average call handling time, by country -- Figure 5.2. Labour cost as a percentage of total cost -- 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 
505 8 |a 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 
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