Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor

by Kalindi Vora

From call centers, overseas domestic labor, and customer care to human organ selling, gestational surrogacy, and knowledge work, such as software programming, life itself is channeled across the globe from one population to another. In Life Support , Kalindi Vora demonstrates how biological bodies have become a new kind of global biocapital. Vora examines how forms of labor serve to support life in the United States at the expense of the lives of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081669396X
• ISBN13: 9780816693962
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"