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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Nadeem, Shehzad, 1978-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. In the process, the book deftly explores the complications of hybrid lives and presents a vivid portrait of a workplace where globalization carries as many downsides as advantages. Shehzad Nadeem writes that the relatively hig
Description matérielle:1 online resource (288 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400836697

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