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Global "body shopping" : an Indian labor system in the information technology industry /

How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global cap...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Xiang, Biao (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Colección:In-formation series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: A stranger's adventure
  • Introduction
  • The global niche for body shopping
  • Producing IT people in Andhra Pradesh
  • Selling "bodies" and selling jobs
  • Business of "branded labor" in Sydney
  • Agent chains and benching
  • Compliant bodies?
  • The world system of body shopping
  • The "Indian triangle" in the global IT industry
  • The remembered fieldwork sites: impressions and images.