A world of work.(A world of work)
Economist (US), The, November, 2004
The global deployment of work has its critics, but it holds huge opportunities for rich and poor countries alike, says Ben Edwards
ON A technology campus off the bustle of the Hosur Road in Electronics City, Bangalore, engineers are fiddling with the innards of a 65-inch television, destined for American shops in 2006. The boffins in the white lab coats work for Wipro, an Indian technology company. Wipro has a research-and-development contract with a firm called Brillian, an American company based half a world away in Tempe, Arizona. Brillian's expertise is in display technology. Wipro's job is to put together the bits that will turn Brillian's technology into a top-end TV.
Wipro is sourcing the television's bits and pieces from companies in America,...
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