Offshore outsourcing -- the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries -- is one of the defining features of globalization. This book provides the first sustained investigation of the workings of the global sourcing industry, its business practices, its market dynamics, its technologies, and its politics.

• 1: Introduction: Going Offshore


• 2: Exploring Outsourcing Space


• 3: Outsourcing Politics


• 4: Into the Outsourcing Complex


• 5: Between Nearshore and Backshore


• 6: No shore, or the Road to Robotistan


• 7: Conclusion: Beyond Offshore?

Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include labour studies, economic restructuring, neoliberalization, and urban transformations. Elected to the fellowships of the Royal Society of Canada and the Academy of the Social Sciences, Jamie Peck has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Harkness fellowships, and received the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award for contributions to economic geography. He is the managing editor of the journal Environment and Planning A and the coordinator of the Summer Institute in Economic Geography.