Xiang, Biao.

Global "body shopping" an Indian labor system in the information technology industry / [electronic resource] : Xiang Biao. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. - xxii, 181 p. : ill., map. - In-formation series . - In-formation series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-172) and index.

The global niche for body shopping -- Producing IT people in Andhra Pradesh -- Selling "bodies" and selling jobs -- Business of "branded labor" in Sydney -- Agent chains and benching -- Compliant bodies? -- The world system of body shopping.


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Electronic data processing personnel--India.
Labor mobility--India.


India--Emigration and immigration.


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