This book analyses how high technology production has shifted from a regional to a global scale. Using the example of semi-conductors it illustrates the interaction of the developed industrial and developing industrialising nations.

Preface 1 A new mode of industrialisation 2 The international division of labour, industrial change and territorial development: Theoretical and methodological issues 3 Semiconductor production: Labour processes, markets, and the determinants of globalisation 4 East Asia: The emergent regional division of labour 5 Hong Kong: The making of a regional core 6 Scotland: The European connection 7 Prospects for globalisation and development 8 Semiconductors, development, and the changing international division of labour