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the political economy of outsourcing

Thanks to Murray Goulden for this great Guardian essay looking at the rise and fall of Serco, as well as the outsourcing industry more broadly. I hadn’t realised until reading this either that the industry employs a million people or quite how much it has grown in the UK from 2010 onwards. It seems evident that you can’t understand the political economy of contemporary Britain without understanding these corporations.

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January 17, 2016
outsourcing, politics, Serco, The Political Economy of Digital Capitalism
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