Dead Ringers : : How Outsourcing Is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves /

Dead Ringers : : How Outsourcing Is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves / / Shehzad Nadeem.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Nadeem, Shehzad,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 3 halftones. 3 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Leaps of Faith
  • Chapter Two. Variations on a Theme
  • Chapter Three. Macaulay's (Cyber) Children
  • Chapter Four. The Uses and Abuses of Time
  • Chapter Five. The Rules of the Game
  • Chapter Six. The Infantilizing Gaze, or Schmidt Revisited
  • Chapter Seven. The Juggernaut of Global Capitalism
  • Chapter Eight. Cyber-Coolies and Techno-Populists
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. Research Methods
  • Notes
  • Index

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