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1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-263) and index. |
| Contents |
Leaps of faith -- Variations on a theme -- Macaulay's (cyber) children -- The uses and abuses of time -- The rules of the game -- The infantilizing gaze, or Schmidt revisited -- The juggernaut of global capitalism -- Cyber-coolies and techno-populists. |
| Summary |
In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced--complete with Westernized names, accents, habits, and lifestyles that are organized around a foreign culture in a distant time zone. Dead Ringers chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. In the process, the book deftly explores the complications of hybrid lives and presents a vivid portrait of a workplace where globalization carries as many downsides as advantages. Shehzad Nadeem writes that the relatively hig. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Contracting out -- India.
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Contracting out. |
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India. |
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Offshore outsourcing -- India.
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Offshore outsourcing. |
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Globalization -- Social aspects -- India.
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Globalization -- Social aspects. |
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Social change -- India.
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Social change. |
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Culture diffusion -- India.
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Culture diffusion. |
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Business.
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Business. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nadeem, Shehzad, 1978- Dead ringers. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691147871 (DLC) 2010031434 (OCoLC)587249109 |
| ISBN |
9781400836697 (electronic book) |
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1400836697 (electronic book) |
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9780691147871 |
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0691147876 |
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