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Author Xiang, Biao.

Title Global "body shopping" : an Indian labor system in the information technology industry / Xiang Biao
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]
©2007

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 MELB  331.127910954 Xia/Gbs  AVAILABLE
Description xxii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series In-formation series
In-formation series.
Contents The global niche for body shopping -- Producing "IT people" in Andhra -- Selling "bodies" and selling jobs -- Business of "branded labor" in Sydney -- Agent chains and benching -- Compliant bodies? -- The world system of body shopping
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-172) and index
Subject Electronic data processing personnel -- India.
Labor mobility -- India.
SUBJECT India -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115423
LC no. 2006010309
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