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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814865503321

Autore

Patel Reena <1970->

Titolo

Working the night shift : women in India's call center industry / / Reena Patel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8047-7550-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

331.4/813811420954

Soggetti

Women employees - India - Social conditions

Call centers - India - Employees

Night work - India

Women - Employment - India

Women - India - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Off-shoring customer service : a new global order -- Mobility-morality narratives : the effects of the industry on the physical mobility of women -- Traveling at night : the effects of night shift employment on the temporal mobility of women -- Fast money, family survival, and the consumer class : the effects of call center employment on economic mobility -- On the home front -- Social mobility : other openings and constrictions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book uncovers how working the night shift at India's transnational call centers affects the lives of women workers.