The Resource Dead ringers : how outsourcing is changing the way Indians understand themselves, Shehzad Nadeem
Dead ringers : how outsourcing is changing the way Indians understand themselves, Shehzad Nadeem
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781400836697
- Label
- Dead ringers : how outsourcing is changing the way Indians understand themselves
- Title
- Dead ringers
- Title remainder
- how outsourcing is changing the way Indians understand themselves
- Statement of responsibility
- Shehzad Nadeem
- Subject
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- Business
- Business
- Contracting out
- Contracting out -- India
- Culture diffusion
- Culture diffusion -- India
- Electronic books
- Globalization -- Social aspects
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries | General
- India
- Offshore outsourcing
- Offshore outsourcing -- India
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- Social change
- Social change -- India
- Globalization -- Social aspects -- India
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- N$T
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- 1978-
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- Nadeem, Shehzad
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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- Contracting out
- Offshore outsourcing
- Globalization
- Social change
- Culture diffusion
- Business
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Business
- Contracting out
- Culture diffusion
- Globalization
- Offshore outsourcing
- Social change
- India
- Label
- Dead ringers : how outsourcing is changing the way Indians understand themselves, Shehzad Nadeem
- Antecedent source
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-263) and index
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- online resource
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- 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
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- ocn719377449
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- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages)
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- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400836697
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- unknown
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- computer
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- c
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- illustrations
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- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)719377449
- Label
- Dead ringers : how outsourcing is changing the way Indians understand themselves, Shehzad Nadeem
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-263) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn719377449
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400836697
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/cttvxkt
- 81ea819e-021c-4167-863d-129325e88186
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)719377449
Subject
- Business
- Business
- Contracting out
- Contracting out -- India
- Culture diffusion
- Culture diffusion -- India
- Electronic books
- Globalization -- Social aspects
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries | General
- India
- Offshore outsourcing
- Offshore outsourcing -- India
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- Social change
- Social change -- India
- Globalization -- Social aspects -- India
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