ISBN:
9780691118529
,
9781400836338 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
209 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781400836338
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
In-Formation
DDC:
331.12/7910954
Keywords:
Informationstechnik
;
Fachkraft
;
Auswanderung
;
Arbeitnehmerüberlassung
;
Informationstechnische Industrie
;
Arbeitnehmer
;
Globalisierung
;
Inder
;
Indien
;
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Abstract:
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 capitalism today. Global ""Body Shopping"" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on in-depth field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy exam...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Online-Ausg.:
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