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Working the night shift : women in India's call center industry / Reena Patel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patel, Reena, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women employees--India--Social conditions.
- Women employees.
- Call centers--India--Employees.
- Call centers.
- Night work--India.
- Night work.
- Women--Employment--India.
- Women.
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book uncovers how working the night shift at India's transnational call centers affects the lives of women workers.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804775502
- 0804775508
- OCLC:
- 654029539
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