Globalisation and National Employment Systems (BMAN31661/UG/3rd Year)
Week 2 Alternative production systems and the rise of the servive economy
Week 7 Skilling the workforce
- Making cars the Volvo way (New York Times, 23/06/1987)
- Decline and fall: The dire fate of a veberable chairmaking region (TIMEasia Magazine, 28/11/2005)
- Twilight in Italy (TIME, 21/03/2006)
- Recession Hits Italy's Chair-Manufacturing Center (NPR, 16/09/2009)
- International borrowing - Nissan in Sunderland:
- 'Nissan Sunderland retains top spot for productivity' (Telegraph, 09/07/2003)
- 'Training honour for Nissan Sunderland' (TJ Online, 14/06/2007)
- 'Nissan to cut 1,200 jobs in Sunderland' (Telegraph, 08/01/2009)
- 'Nissan to create hundreds of jobs' (BBC, 20/07/2009)
- 'Nissan's Sunderland plant could build new electric cars' (Sunderland Echo, 18/12/2009)
Week 7 Skilling the workforce
- Additional information on Silicon Valley: The Silcon Valley Gateway; SiliconValey.com; Silicon Valley Slang
- Other high-tech clusters: Sophia Antipolis, France; Bangalore, India; Zhong Guan Cun, China
- 'Report says some vocational courses are 'worthless' (BBC, 03/03/2011)