The dialectical meaning of offshored work : neoliberal desires and labour arbitrage in post-socialist Romania / by Miłosz Miszczyński.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miszczyński, Miłosz, author.

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences; volume146.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences; volume146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Offshore outsourcing--Social aspects--Romania.

Offshore outsourcing.

Employees--Romania--Social conditions.

Employees.

Labor and globalization--Romania.

Labor and globalization.

Post-communism--Romania.

Post-communism.

Romania--Economic conditions--1989-.

Romania.

Romania--Social conditions--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Summary:

The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters among corporate actors and local populations of hosting communities. The book synthesizes ethnographic research, media reviews, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of offshoring production occur in social, political and economic processes to highlight dilemmas connected to mobility of capital, modernization, social equality and capitalist expansion. The book delineates the complex interplay between Western neoliberalism and a transforming post-socialist Europe, to show the complex ways in which offshoring production infiltrates local communities. Analyzing issues of labor, work and employment, this book engages with current scholarship on critical management, sociology, anthropology, and East European studies.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgement

The Post-socialist Workforce in the Global Offshoring Networks

Romania’s Systemic Transformation: Chaos, Austerity and Imposed Neoliberal Reform

The Arrival: Global Assemblage of Neoliberal Production

A Journey onto the Shop Floor: Cultural Specificity of the Offshored Plant and Workforce Adaptation

Shop Floor Culture and Routine Production Process

Familial Involvement in Offshored Labour

Employee Reactions to the Plant Closure

Coping with Loss: Local Agency and Offshored Labour

Labour Arbitrage, Modernity and the Realities of Offshored Labour

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

1114970542

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004411692 DOI