Libro: Global 'body Shopping'. Xiang, Biao. Ibd Podiprint

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TITULO DEL LIBRO: Global 'body Shopping'
AUTOR: Xiang, Biao
PÁGINAS: 210
AÑO EDICIÓN: 2006
ENCUADERNACIÓN: RUSTICA
EDITORIAL: Ibd Podiprint
ISBN: 9780691118529

RESEÑA: How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. Global 'Body Shopping' explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on in-depth field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, Xiang Biao offers a richly detailed analysis of the India-based global labor management practice known as 'body shopping.' In this practice, a group of consultants--body shops--in different countries works together to recruit IT workers. Body shops then farm out workers to clients as project-based labor, and upon a project's completion they either place the workers with a different client or 'bench' them to await the next placement. Thus, labor is managed globally to serve volatile capital movement. Underpinning this practice are unequal socioeconomic relations on multiple levels. While wealth in the New Economy is created in an increasingly abstract manner, everyday realities--stock markets in New York, benched IT workers in Sydney, dowries in Hyderabad, and women and children in Indian villages--sustain this flexibility.