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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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.
Temas:
Automation > Economic aspects.
Automation > Economic aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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

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