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Autore |
Patel Reena <1970-> |
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Titolo |
Working the night shift : women in India's call center industry / / Reena Patel |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women employees - India - Social conditions |
Call centers - India - Employees |
Night work - India |
Women - Employment - India |
Women - India - Social conditions |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book uncovers how working the night shift at India's transnational call centers affects the lives of women workers. |
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