Offshore - Peck, Jamie, PhD (Canada Research Chair in Urban a Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography, Canada Research Chair in Urban a Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia)

Offshore outsourcing -- the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries -- is one of the defining features of globalization. This book provides the first sustained investigation of the workings of the global sourcing industry, its business practices, its market dynamics, its technologies, and its politics.