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

by Xiang Biao
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Labor Flexibility: An Indian IT Industry Insightful Account.

This book is a comprehensive examination of the IT industry's labor system, which is characterized by flexible labor management and uncertainty. The author explores the phenomenon of "body shopping," which helps to sustain the global capitalism model. The book provides detailed field research in southern India and in Australia, offering a richly detailed account that reveals the complex socioeconomic relations that underpin the practice. It is an insightful account of the Indian IT industry, offering unique perspective for anyone interested in labor market dynamics in the modern economy.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Global "Body Shopping" : An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry

by Xiang Biao
$5.80 $2.49 57% off
$2.24 Thryft Club Member Price
ISBN: 9780691118529
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $57.67
Authors: Xiang Biao
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date of Publication: 2006-11-26
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.77
(rated by 57 readers)

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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 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.
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Labor Flexibility: An Indian IT Industry Insightful Account.

This book is a comprehensive examination of the IT industry's labor system, which is characterized by flexible labor management and uncertainty. The author explores the phenomenon of "body shopping," which helps to sustain the global capitalism model. The book provides detailed field research in southern India and in Australia, offering a richly detailed account that reveals the complex socioeconomic relations that underpin the practice. It is an insightful account of the Indian IT industry, offering unique perspective for anyone interested in labor market dynamics in the modern economy.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.