Dead Ringers : How Outsourcing Is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves /

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In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced--complete with Westernized names, accents, habits, and lifestyles that are organized around a foreign culture in a distant time zone. Dead Ringers chro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nadeem, Shehzad, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social change.
Offshore outsourcing.
Globalization > Social aspects.
Culture diffusion.
Contracting out.
Business.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Affaires.
Diffusion culturelle > Inde.
Mondialisation > Aspect social > Inde.
Impartition à l'etranger > Inde.
Impartition > Inde.
Culture diffusion > India.
Social change > India.
Globalization > Social aspects > India.
Offshore outsourcing > India.
Contracting out > India.
India.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Leaps of faith
  • Variations on a theme
  • Macaulay's (cyber) children
  • The uses and abuses of time
  • The rules of the game
  • The infantilizing gaze, or Schmidt revisited
  • The juggernaut of global capitalism
  • Cyber-coolies and techno-populists.

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