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Global 'Body Shopping': An Indian Labor System In The Information Technology Industry (Information Series),Used
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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 Systema 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 Indepth 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 Indiabased Global Labor Management Practice Known As 'Body Shopping.' In This Practice, A Group Of Consultantsbody Shopsin Different Countries Works Together To Recruit It Workers. Body Shops Then Farm Out Workers To Clients As Projectbased 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 Realitiesstock Markets In New York, Benched It Workers In Sydney, Dowries In Hyderabad, And Women And Children In Indian Villagessustain This Flexibility.
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