Global Body Shopping - An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry

List of Illustrations, Tables, Boxes vii Acronyms ix Prologue: A Stranger's Adventure xiii Acknowledgments xxi Introduction 1(3) Body Shopping: Brief Overview 4(3) Ethnicization, Individualization, and Transnationalization 7(4) Structure of the Book 11(2) The Global Niche for Body Shopping 13(11) ``Financial Democracy'' and the Virtual Shortage of IT Labor 14(5) War for IT Talent and Wall of Regulation 19(5) Producing ``IT People'' in Andhra 24(15) ``D-Shops'' and ``T-Shops'' 26(4) ``Have Lands in Andhra, Have a House in Hyderabad, and Have a Job in America'' 30(4) Producing IT People as a Family Business 34(5) Selling ``Bodies'' and Selling Jobs 39(14) Fee-Paying Workers and Body Shops in Hyderabad 43(5) India as the Nexus of Global Body Shopping 48(5) Business of ``Branded Labor'' in Sydney 53(17) ``Marketing and Development Are Totally Different Stories'' 57(2) ``Only Indians Can Handle Indians'' 59(3) Overlapping Businesses 62(3) Same Roof, Different Hats 65(5) Agent Chains and Benching 70(12) Differentiated Circles 75(2) ``Indians Are the Most Dangerous Ones!'' 77(3) Overbooking Seats on the Bench 80(2) Compliant Bodies? 82(18) Interlocks between Body Shops and Community Associations 86(4) Workers as Intermediaries 90(2) Relations among Workers: Support Yes, Solidarity No 92(5) The Way Out 97(3) The World System of Body Shopping 100(10) The United States of America: ``Mecca for IT People'' 102(2) Global Gateways: Singapore, Malaysia, and the Middle East 104(3) U.S. Satellites: The Caribbean and Latin America 107(1) New Frontiers: ``Sind Sie Inder?'' and ``Is There a German Dream?'' 108(2) Ending Remarks The ``Indian Triangle'' in the Global IT Industry 110(7) Appendix Essay The Remembered Fieldwork Sites: Impressions and Images 117(12) Biographical Index of Informants 129(20) Notes 149(18) References 167(6) Index 173