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Life Support : Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor /

From call centers, overseas domestic labor, and customer care to human organ selling, gestational surrogacy, and knowledge work, such as software programming, life itself is channeled across the globe from one population to another. In Life Support, Kalindi Vora demonstrates how biological bodies ha...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Vora, Kalindi, 1976- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Limits of labor : affect and the biological in transnational surrogacy and service work
  • Call center agents : commodified affect and the biocapital of care
  • Information technology professionals : innovation and uncertain futures
  • Transnational gestational surrogacy : exchange and expectation.