Global "body shopping"
Subtitle: an Indian labor system in the information technology industry
By: Xiang Biao.
Series: In-formation series
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780691118512; 9780691118529
Subjects: Electronic data processing personnel -- India; Labor mobility -- India; India -- Emigration and immigration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: The global niche for body shopping; title: Producing "IT people" in Andhra; title: Selling "bodies" and selling jobs; title: Business of "branded labor" in Sydney; title: Agent chains and benching; title: Compliant bodies?; title: The world system of body shopping.