Global Body Shopping: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry

by Biao Xiang and Xiang Biao

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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 capitalism today. Global "Body Shopping" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691118523

ISBN13:9780691118529

Release Date:November 2006

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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