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

by Biao Xiang and Xiang Biao

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691118523
• ISBN13: 9780691118529
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"