Global "Body Shopping" : : An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry / / Biao Xiang.
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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Xiang, Biao, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Global "Body Shopping" : An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry / Biao Xiang. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2007 1 online resource (208 p.) : 9 halftones. 3 line illus. 1 table. 1 map. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda In-Formation Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Tables, Boxes -- Acronyms -- Prologue: A Stranger's Adventure -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Global Niche for Body Shopping -- Chapter 2. Producing "IT People" in Andhra -- Chapter 3. Selling "Bodies" and Selling Jobs -- Chapter 4. Business of "Branded Labor" in Sydney -- Chapter 5. Agent Chains and Benching -- Chapter 6. Compliant Bodies? -- Chapter 7. The World System of Body Shopping -- Ending Remarks. The "Indian Triangle" in the Global IT Industry -- Appendix Essay. The Remembered Fieldwork Sites: Impressions and Images -- Biographical Index of Informants -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 examination, Xiang Biao offers a richly detailed analysis of the India-based global labor management practice known as "body shopping." In this practice, a group of consultants--body shops--in different countries works together to recruit IT workers. Body shops then farm out workers to clients as project-based labor; and upon a project's completion they either place the workers with a different client or "bench" them to await the next placement. Thus, labor is managed globally to serve volatile capital movement. Underpinning this practice are unequal socioeconomic relations on multiple levels. While wealth in the New Economy is created in an increasingly abstract manner, everyday realities--stock markets in New York, benched IT workers in Sydney, dowries in Hyderabad, and women and children in Indian villages--sustain this flexibility. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Electronic data processing personnel India. Labor mobility India. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691118529 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400836338 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400836338 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400836338.jpg |
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