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International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers, not least how responsibility is increasingly being transferred to them. This book looks at how workers are expected to survive unstable job market conditions in three locations: the UK, Singapore, and South Korea.

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Introduction: The International Political Economy of Work Work, Employability, Subjectivity Skills Revolutions in the ´West´ Skills Revolutions in the ´East´ Employability as Renewed Subjectivity: Sooda, and Peer Production Bibliography

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"One in all this is a very useful book that allows us to develop many insights into aspects on the functioning of the global economy. ... Moore´s book is a higher useful contribution to studies within IPE. ... the real achievements of this book is that it opens up a large number of enquiries - both theoretical and empirical - that have either been understated or ignored when looking at wider questions on issues such as globalisation and the global political economy." (Owen Worth, Global Discourse, Vol. 2 (2), 2011)

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Dr Phoebe Mooreis an active researcher and a Senior Lecturer in International Relations. She has been teaching International Relations and International Political Economy since September 2000 in the United Kingdom and has published a number of books, articles and reports about labour struggle, industrial relations and the impact of technology on everyday lives.

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