Explaining Deindustrialization: How Affluence, Productivity Growth, and Globalization Diminish Manufacturing Employment

The Rise and Fall of Finance and the End of the Society of Organizations

“…Postindustrialism, in other words, is less about moving jobs around the globe than about the inevitable effects of productivity improvements in a capitalist economy (cf. Kollmeyer, 2009). …”

Within-Country Inequality and the Modern World-System: A Theoretical Reprise and Empirical First Step

“…Yet, the nature of FDI has changed significantly over the latter part of the 20 th century, where the bulk of FDI now flows between core countries and informal subcontracting relationships now supplement or supplant the proprietary capitalistic relations inherent to FDI flows into peripheral countries (eg. Alderson and Nielsen 1999;Kollmeyer 2009;Mahutga 2011).…”

“…effects of world-system position, development, dependency and institutional factors (see Kollmeyer 2009 for an application of simultaneous equations in a recent model of deindustrialization to estimate the direct and indirect effects of globalization). 16 Ultimately, then, the total effect of world-system position would be the sum of the direct and indirect effects in models with a robust set of control variables that can identify both direct and indirect worldsystem effects.…”

Work innovations: transformation, micro-emancipations, or discursive shift?

“…Much of the discussion around innovations in work practices centres on an assumption of the growth of the professional, creative and services sector, and an increase in 'knowledge-intensive' work, with a concurrent decline in manufacturing and traditional 'low skilled' work (Kollmeyer, 2009;Steven, 2001). Proponents argue that these changes constitute a transformation to the work landscape (Cappelli and Rogovsky, 1994;Lamb and Sutherland, 2010), both in terms of skill requirements, and in the underlying assumptions of the very nature of 'work'.…”