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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Xiang, Biao (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Series:In-formation series.
Subjects:
Electronic data processing personnel > India.
Labor mobility > India.
Informatique > Personnel > Inde.
Main-d'œuvre > Mobilité > Inde.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Electronic data processing personnel
Emigration and immigration
Labor mobility
Auswanderung
Arbeitnehmerüberlassung
Informationstechnik
Fachkraft
Arbeidsmarkt.
Internationalisatie.
Informatietechnologie.
India > Emigration and immigration.
Inde > Émigration et immigration.
India
Indien
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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