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Selected Papers of an International Project on
Global Production Systems and Labour Markets
Between 1995 and 1997 the Institute coordinated an international research network whose purpose was to analyse labour market developments and policies in the light of the changing nature of the enterprise and the emergence of global production networks. An underlying hypothesis was that these developments necessitated new policy frameworks at three levels: at an enterprise level, the firm had to be viewed less as a fixed unit than as a network; at an industry level, attention had to move away from the industry as traditionally defined, to a global commodity chain (or sequence of value adding activities, from the processing of primary input to the final distribution of goods and service); at a policy level, the focus had to shift from policies at the national level to those at the regional and local levels. A workshop was held at the ILO in March 1998 to discuss the major findings of the project and to draw policy conclusions. The Background Note and selected papers of the meeting are presented here.
 Background Note
Global Production and Local Jobs: issues for discussion
by Florence Palpacuer and Aurelio Parisotto
 References
Export Processing Zones: The Cutting Edge of Globalization
By Auret Van Heerden
Special Action Programme on Social and Labour Issues in Export Processing Zones
Labour Law and Labour Relations Branch, ILO
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The Global Value Chain Concept in relation to the IILS Programme of Work
By Duncan Campbell and Aurelio Parisotto
International lnstitute for Labour Studies (ILO)
Geneva, Switzerland
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