Working the night shift
Subtitle: women's employment in the transnational call center industry
By: Reena Patel.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804769136; 9780804769143
Subjects: Women employees -- India -- Social conditions; Call centers -- India -- Employees; Night work -- India; Women -- Employment -- India; Women -- India -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Off-shoring customer service : a new global order; title: Mobility-morality narratives : the effects of the industry on the physical mobility of women; title: Traveling at night : the effects of night shift employment on the temporal mobility of women; title: Fast money, family survival, and the consumer class : the effects of call center employment on economic mobility; title: On the home front; title: Social mobility : other openings and constrictions.