Dead ringers: how outsourcing is changing the way Indians understand themselves
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-263) and index 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 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 |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 273 pages) |
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