Labor and the globalization of production : causes and consequences of industrial upgrading / edited by William Milberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalized production : structural challenges for developing country workers / William Milberg -- Trade and industrial upgrading in developing countries / Yilmaz Akyüz, Richard Kozul-Wright, and Jörg Mayer -- Upgrading, uneven development, and jobs in the North American apparel industry / Jennifer Bair and Gary Gereffi -- Technology versus trade versus social institutions : explaining rising wage inequality in the Chilean cosmetics industry / Janine Berg -- Why do firms disintegrate? Towards an understanding of the firm-level decision to subcontract and its implications for labor / Asad Sayeed and Radhika Balakrishnan -- Skill upgrading in developing countries : has inward foreign direct investment played a role? / Matthew J. Slaughter -- Does trade promote gender wage equity? Evidence from East Asia / Günseli Berik, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, and Joseph E. Zveglich, Jr -- Globalization in a middle-income economy : FDI, production, and the labor market in South Africa / Stephen Gelb and Anthony Black -- Bargaining power and foreign direct investment in China : can 1.3 billion consumers tame the multinationals? / Elissa Braunstein and Gerald Epstein -- Rethinking international labor standards / Michael Piore.