Human Resources and Industrial Spaces: A Perspective on Globalization and Localization

The objectives of this book are threefold. Firstly, it provides a brief theoretical statement about the new connections between the global and the local forms of industrial organization and human resource development in the 1990s and the rise in interest in the idea of industrial spaces as contexts for human resource development. Secondly, it explores, through selected case studies, some of the key transformations which are shaping the material form and interpretation of industrial spaces and human resources. Finally, it reviews policy and planning processes which are appropriate to the attainment of globally integrated industrial spaces and locally planned human resource development.