Off-shoring of Work and London’s Sustainability as an International Financial Centre

Ian Gordon; Colin Haslam; Philip McCann; Brian Scott-Quinn

Off-shoring of Work and London’s Sustainability as an International Financial Centre

Ian Gordon, Colin Haslam, Philip McCann, Brian Scott-Quinn

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Abstract

The emergence, from the 1960s on, of a new spatial division of labour – with the old task-based division of labour within a firm taking on a spatial dimension, and comparative advantage increasingly shaping patterns of specialisation by func-tion/process as well as by sector/product – reflected both new possibilities opened up by developments in management, control and communications technologies and intensified competitive pressures within (generally) mature industrial sectors. On an international scale this primarily affected manufacturing activities, and was driven essentially by labour cost factors

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Directions in Regional Economic Development
Editors	C. Karlsson, A. E. Andersson, P. C. Cheshire, R. R. Stough
Publisher	Springer Nature Link
Pages	373-385
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-01016-3, 978-3-642-26913-4
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Off-shoring of Work and London’s Sustainability as an International Financial Centre

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