Dead ringers: how outsourcing is changing the way Indians understand themselves
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1. Verfasser: Nadeem, Shehzad (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press c2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 273 p)
ISBN:9781400836697
DOI:10.1515/9781400836697

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