World at work: The electronics industry

摘要: Spotlight on a diverse industry The electronics industry employs millions of workers throughout the world and plays significant role in structure world’s economy. Many multinational industries retain their capital intensive operations home countries, but locate labour newly industrialising because lower cost attractive financial infrastructural incentives offered. In many developing is major contributor to employment national economic growth. The with wide spectrum processes. Its sectors include semiconductor wafer fabrication, manufacture printed circuit boards, assembly devices final electronic products. There are also supporting that produce materials components necessary make product. These those which metal plastic parts, electrical parts such as storage media for hard disks, precision motors run drives, transformers, switches, liquid crystal displays, other components. In general, processes can be viewed series work leading product (table 1): View this table: Table 1 Work