The dynamism and persistence of competitiveness among industrial clusters, even in the wake of globalization and liberalization in the 1990s, had led researchers to explore the causes of dynamic efficiencies at the cluster level. Cluster studies in the 19880s focused on static advantages of...

Stories on the positive and negative effects of globalization on workers in developing countries abound. But a comprehensive picture is missing and many of the stories are ideologically charged. This paper reviews the academic literature on the subject, including several studies currently under...