The Causes of Structural Unemployment : Four Factors that Keep People from the Jobs they Deserve (Paperback)

Tables, Figures, and Boxes viii

Abbreviations x

Acknowledgments xiii

1 Introduction 1

2 Shifting from Manufacturing to Services and Skill Mismatches 26

3 Transnational Corporations Enthralled with Outsourcing and Offshoring 53

4 Technological Change and Job Loss 82

5 Global Trade, Shareholder Value, and Financialization as Structural Causes of Unemployment 113

6 Fixing Structural Unemployment 142

7 Conclusion: Can We Trust Transnational Corporations? 173

Notes 179

References 190

Subject Index 214

Name Index 223