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BOOK OF ABSTRACTS36th International Labour process Conference - Offshore service industry: their implications on work. Business services and film production service in Argentina
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2018Editorial y Lugar de Edición:
36th International Labour process Conference, Class and the labour process.Resumen *
Offshore service industry: their implications on work. Business services and film production service in ArgentinaAndrea Del Bono, María Noel BulloniThe outsourcing and offshoring strategies are a nodal part of contemporary global restructuring. Today these strategies profoundly cross all economic sectors, especially the increasingly large sector of services.Since the beginning of this century the global outsourcing of services has continued to expand with dizzying dynamism. By using the global value chain approach, some analysts propose to reflect on how to leverage the opportunities of emerging countries to insert them successfully in this process. These opportunities are linked, in their terms, with the process of firm ?upgrading? as well as with increasing jobs with good skill levels. From this perspective it has been observed that while Latin American participation in these global services chains is small compared to the world average, some of its countries like Argentina behave a notable dynamism in many activities services linked to offshoring.In a critical dialogue with this approach, in this paper we focus the analysis on service activities heavily influenced by these processes in Argentina in the last decade: theprovision of business services and audiovisual production services. We address the outsourcing and offshoring strategies deployed in each of these sectors, the forms of integration of local companies into global service chains and the implications of these processes on employment conditions and working regulations.Regarding this last dimension, central in the analysis, the analyzed period (2003-2015) allows us to demonstrate the ambivalences, risks and potentialities of this development strategy. From our perspective, the new organizational forms of transnational capitalism, ultimately, promote and deepen deregulation and job insecurity present in the domestic sphere. However, although they are probably the most determinant, they are not the only factors that influence the work configurations in each place. The analysis presented allow us to evidence how in some circumstances referred strategies articulate with deregulation and worsening working conditions, while others are linked with their opposite tendencies Información suministrada por el agente en SIGEVAPalabras Clave
OFFSHOREGLOBAL VALUE CHAINWORK ORGANIZATIONSERVICE INDUSTRY