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Explain how economic globalization has brought changes in the patterns of employment in the 21st century.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Works and Economic Life

Economic globalization is the integration of production, trade, finance and technology across borders. Manuel Castells (The Rise of the Network Society, 1996) argued that it reorganises work around global networks, so that capital moves freely while labour stays largely local. The result is a shift in where people work, on what terms, in which sectors…

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